This is an email Mel originally wrote, but we wanted to make sure it gets out before POSSE Doha wraps, so I'm sending it for her.
--Sebastian
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--Sebastian
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Hi,
everyone - I wanted to explain some recent activity on the Sugar on a
Stick spins page that I've pushed. The patch updating the website for
the current release is actually the work of Affan Syed, Saquib Razak and Citizen Ben.
They're part of http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE_Doha,
a workshop in Qatar we're running for local faculty who are interested
in having their students contribute to open source projects as part of
the classes they teach. As part of this, we (Sebastian Dziallas and I)
wanted them to have the experience of making their own first
contribution to an open source project, so we asked them to update the
website for us - and they did.
The
professors themselves may or may not (probably not, since classes start
again soon) continue to contribute to Fedora Websites, but they may be
bringing their students into the Fedora community next school year, so
if you're interested in talking with them about that, feel free to drop
them a line.
Saquib
Razak saquibrazak@xxxxxxxxx - I teach introductory programming courses
and want to introduce open source development to students.
(Mel notes: If you're working on an open source project that could use
the efforts of about 20 new contributors who have completed basic
programming courses (but may be new to large-scale open source software
development) for a semester - maybe 5 hours of work a week per student -
and are willing to take the time to mentor/guide them and build
documentation on how they can get started with your project, email
Saquib.)
Citizen Ben ctzenben@xxxxxxxxx - I work on Arabic human language technology and am interested in expanding Arabic Wikipedia by Machine Translation.
(Mel notes: Ben's questions to Sebastian and myself over lunch centered
around community dynamics - they're machine-translation researchers
asking "how can our work with language engines be useful towards
building an Arabic Wikipedia community?" He and his team can
automatically create Arabic Wikipedia pages from English ones, and vice
versa, and automatically analyze the quality of a translation, but he
doesn't have Wikipedia or open source community experience to figure out
how to make this work useful to the relevant communities. If you can
help him get started, let him know.)
Affan Syed (affan.syed@xxxxxxxxx): I am an Assistant Professor in the EE department at FAST-NUCES (Islamabad Campus http://www.nu.edu.pk/Isbcamp.aspx.).
I wlll be teaching courses on Embedded Systems and Distributed
Computing in SP 2011. I am looking at Eucalyptus and similar open source
projects as a *possibility* to get my students to work with (but
unlikely that they will go beyond getting it deployed) for a FA2011
course on cloud and mobile computing. But I am open to other options
for my above courses. (Mel
notes: if you're working on cloud and interested in academic
collaborators, get in touch with Affan - he's said everything else I
would have written to introduce him already. :-)
We've
also been working with Bilal Zafar from USC who teaches more towards
the hardware side of things and is interested in what's going on with
teaching open hardware platforms (beagleboard, arduino, etc), so email
bzafar@xxxxxxx if you're interested in talking with a professor about
that.
This has been your friendly semi-regular education-stuff interruption from Mel and Sebastian. Carry on. :-)
--Mel
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