Xapian devel - Feb 2011 - Mentorship

Hello, I am interested in an open source online mentorship. I don't know if
the
information is up to date, but this link says you are interested in students. I 
would like to learn who open source development and practical programming works.


      
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On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 02:44:58PM -0800, Bruce Bland
wrote:
> Hello, I am interested in an open source online mentorship. I don't
> know if the information is up to date, but this link says you are
> interested in students. I would like to learn who open source
> development and practical programming works.
I guess you found us from this page?

http://www.teachingopensource.org/index.php/FOSS_Mentor_Projects

Yes, we're certainly still happy to mentor students (and non-students)
how would like to work on Xapian.

If you're wanting general background information on how open source
development works, this is a good introduction:

http://www.teachingopensource.org/index.php/How_to_start_contributing_to_or_using_Open_Source_Software

Do you have a particular ideas what you'd like to work on?  There are
some ideas of useful and interesting areas to look at here:

http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/HelpWanted
http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/GSoCProjectIdeas

If you're a student in higher education, you might want to consider
applying to Google's Summer of Code:

http://code.google.com/soc/

We're intending to apply as a mentoring organisation this year.

Cheers,
    Olly