Re: [Fwd: [LINK] Open source projects for those on the dole (fwd)]

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On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Stuart Ellis wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 14:55 -0700, Karsten Wade wrote:
> > Anyone in Australia want to see if there are potential doc writers in
> > this program?  DocBook/XML is much easier to learn than most
> > programming, is a real world skill, and we sure could use docs from
> > regular users for regular users.
> 
> The Professional Writing people at Purdue University have a programme
> that matches up student tech writers with OSS projects:
> 
> http://osddp.org/index.php

I recommend leaping into this relationship with both feet.

If there's one model I'd like to pursue aggressively, it's the "teach 
college students from the womb to contribute to open projects" model.

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