[Campus-columbia-staff] intro email for organizers and mentors at Columbia event this Saturday!

[Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

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>>     People to talk about open source careers.  It looks like Nik is the
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>>>    one with paid experience in open source.  Nik, would you feel
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>>>    leading a general discussion?  I can also arrange for people to join
>>> the
>>>    discussion remotely, including folks who have done GSoC or OPW - it’s
>>> great
>>>    to highlight those opportunities as things that students can do in
>>> the near
>>>    term.  Nik, let me know what you’re comfortable with.
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>> Yeah it only happened recently that I now have a career writing
>> GPL-licensed
>> code. Up until now I've worked primarily on proprietary code, using
>> permissively-licensed libraries. Software licensing is something I feel
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>> about but I realize it might not be the most interesting or relevant thing
>> to these students, but I could give an intro on some of the different
>> philosophies.. I think the trend of programmers releasing code with
>> permissive
>> licenses like MIT and BSD is very detrimental to the community, but I
>> don't need
>> to talk about that, haha.
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>> But yeah I could lead a discussion on open source careers.
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> That sounds great.  Last year we had people write down questions and
> pulled them out of a hat, which was pretty fun.  :)  It's a good way to
> make sure the discussion is student-directed.
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Another thing we like to focus on are paid opportunities for students.  We
keep a list here:
https://openhatch.org/wiki/Opportunities

It would be great for all the mentors to skim this list and familiarize
themselves with it, so that they can make sure students know about their
options.
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