[Devel] POSSE Project Query Letter

[Asheesh Laroia]

On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, David Shein wrote:

> My name is Dave Shein, and I'm an Adjunct Faculty at Rochester Institute of 
> Technology. Along with Chris Tyler of Seneca College, we are hosting a week 
> long POSSE boot-camp at the RIT campus from June 20th -24th. POSSE, sponsored 
> by Red Hat, is a week long educational hand-on seminar in open source 
> process, collaboration, and education. The central purpose of POSSE is to 
> increase awareness and opportunities for Open Source participation in the 
> university setting. All of POSSE participants are university staff or faculty 
> who will take what they learn in POSSE and use that knowledge in CS and 
> related curricula, to spread the word about open source collaboration, and to 
> provide increased educational opportunities for CS related students. Our 
> first two days are spent acclimating our participants to tools and resources 
> of the open source community, but on the third and fourth day of POSSE we 
> will have our participants do a code-sprint. We are looking for opportunities 
> in existing open source projects which have a quick learning curve and setup 
> time for folks with a CS background but who in most cases will not have a 
> great depth of experience working in open source languages. We are 
> particularly interested in having our participants hack on Fedora based 
> projects. The students will have a Fedora F14 & F15/Linux work environment 
> setup as part of their initial orientation, and we are looking for projects 
> that will not have lengthy setup beyond the participants' initial setup.
> We obtained information about your open source project through OpenHatch, and 
> would like to know if your project would have elements that would be amenable 
> to our sprint. There will be approximately fifteen to twenty participants 
> working on the sprint in teams of 3 to 5 people each, of whom most are 
> coders. IN ADDITION we are also looking for a project participation 
> opportunity for 3 to 4 non-coders, possibly in the form of testing, 
> copywriting, or editing work. Ideally we would also like to coordinate with a 
> point-person in your organization during the period of the sprint, a person 
> to whom participants could direct questions, perhaps via IRC in real time.
> If this is of interest to you please contact me at your earliest convenience.

Well. I totally failed to respond to this in a reasonable time. I hope you 
got what you needed, and that the POSSE was a success!

:|,

-- Asheesh.