Forum OpenACS Development: Re: Re: Mentorship Program : RFC

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6: Re: Re: Mentorship Program : RFC (response to 5)
Posted by Ryan Gallimore on 05/22/06 02:12 PM
I'd be happy to provide more information related to the Mentorship Program I have in mind.

By leveraging the experience of key developers in a way that will not be too onerous, I think we can enhance the new user experience to not only create renewed interest in the toolkit, but also to actually get some useful code put back into the community. Students will learn, but so will mentors.

With your feedback I will post my ideas on curriculum in the coming days.

Cheers.

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17: Mentorship Program Status (response to 6)
Posted by Ryan Gallimore on 06/14/06 06:21 PM
The Mentorship Program is coming along... we now have 5 mentors and 5 students. I am in the process of pairing people up. Please apply to be a mentor or student by filling out the approriate survey.

As these mentorships get rolling, I would like to start developing a curriculum for new developers. What do mentors, students and the community think students need to know to start learning OpenACS? Should we demand prerequisites?

I've also posted to the Wiki a description of the program and its status.

Cheers.

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18: Re: Mentorship Program Status (response to 17)
Posted by Jim Lynch on 07/22/07 02:45 AM
demand? no, I don't think so...

suggest? definitely (and this would include trying to support everything aduni.org did)

provide (or try to)? absolutely. each aduni course can have a wiki page and a q&a forum.