Targeting universities

Hi all,
I'd like to start targeting my university to try and recruit some
students into open source development and kde. Has anybody had any
luck with such an objective? Any pointers for an effective way of
doing this?

Cheers

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[Vincent Batts-2]

well,
in my limited experience, our local user group is tied into the local university (meets there, posts events there) and it has brought people to the meetings. some of those people have since become contributors (not to kde in particular).
as for tying in to directly targeting engineering/science schools, to generate interest in contribution, that has not be as much the prerogative, but i have increasingly been moving our toward that.
especially since users are increasingly using google to find support, instead of local to find a local group in their city.
i too would be interested in any particular pointers in integrating to recruit contributors. we in birmingham have an upcoming regional lug fest for alabama lugs. and next june, there will be a southeast linux fest, http://www.southeastlinuxfest.com/wiki/ , and i'm prepared to plug more than just vocalized support.


vb

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Seb Ruiz <ruiz@...> wrote:

Hi all,
I'd like to start targeting my university to try and recruit some
students into open source development and kde. Has anybody had any
luck with such an objective? Any pointers for an effective way of
doing this?

Cheers

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Seb Ruiz

http://www.sebruiz.net/
http://amarok.kde.org/

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[Wade Olson]

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Seb Ruiz <ruiz@...> wrote:

Hi all,
I'd like to start targeting my university to try and recruit some
students into open source development and kde. Has anybody had any
luck with such an objective? Any pointers for an effective way of
doing this?

Cheers

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Seb Ruiz

http://www.sebruiz.net/
http://amarok.kde.org/

Seb,

A year or two ago, I was kicking around how to strategically approach universities and get a program initiated; here is the template for a letter I was crafting to send out to university departments - maybe some of the ideas or themes can be helpful for brainstorming:

******

In general, I've been thinking about such things.  The following email
draft speaks for itself.  Big implications and planning needed.
Imagine blasting such an email to a mailing list of comp sci
departments.  Feedback desired.

***************************************

Hello,

Many colleges and university technical departments face similar challenges:

* How to attract students to challenging majors such as computer science?
* How to improve student preparation for the business world and life
after school?
* How to come up with new and unique course project ideas?
* How to make technical topics and learning more fun?

The KDE community is starting a new initiative to work more directly with
computer science departments to promote Open Source participation in:
* Individuals
* Small groups
* Classes
* Intra-university groups

Real world benefits:
* Learning peripheral development skills such as documentation
* Learn to read others' code
* Bug fixing (bugzilla)
* Familiarization with a premier object oriented toolkit (Qt)
* Applied experience in a visible project
* Usability
* Philanthropy
* Resume building

Participation ideas: (in ascending levels of scope)
* Simple department announcements of this concept
* CompSci Club activity
* Extra credit project
* Option for Self-Guided course definitions and independent study
* Thesis topics and investigation
* Course homework lesson (interface guidelines, documentation, coding,
bug fixing)
* Chapter or expanded activity/group project
* Course focused on applied Compsci concepts

Three areas of KDE are ideal for focus because they are comprised of
focused, manageable applications:
* KDE-Edutainment
* KOffice
* KDE PIM

We welcome feedback on how to maximize benefits to both
Computer Science students and the Open Source community.

Interested?  Please join us at xxx-xxx...blah blah blah.

Sincerely,
Wade Olson
KDE Promotional Community

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On Wednesday 03 September 2008, Seb Ruiz wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'd like to start targeting my university to try and recruit some
> students into open source development and kde. Has anybody had any
> luck with such an objective? Any pointers for an effective way of
> doing this?

you really ought to talk with Kevin Ottens; he's been running a very
successful program in Toulouse for the last few years.

he's on vacation right now, though, but he'll be back next week.

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2008/9/4 Wade Olson <wade@...>:
> Seb,
> A year or two ago, I was kicking around how to strategically approach
> universities and get a program initiated; here is the template for a letter
> I was crafting to send out to university departments - maybe some of the
> ideas or themes can be helpful for brainstorming:

Awesome, that's going to be really handy when detailing to the
university what benefits it will bring them and their students.


2008/9/4 Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo@...>:
> you really ought to talk with Kevin Ottens; he's been running a very
> successful program in Toulouse for the last few years.
>
> he's on vacation right now, though, but he'll be back next week.

Okay will do, thanks for the heads up.

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[Cornelius Schumacher]

On Thursday 04 September 2008 03:49:37 Seb Ruiz wrote:
>
> I'd like to start targeting my university to try and recruit some
> students into open source development and kde. Has anybody had any
> luck with such an objective? Any pointers for an effective way of
> doing this?

I had some good experience with KDE related thesises. If there is a student
willing to work on a KDE topic and a professor who accepts that, it's a
pretty good setup and allows to bring KDE work into universities. This is
easier than approaching universities in a more general way. It's an
advantage, if there can be done some KDE tutoring from an officially
recognized party, e.g. a company, as universities are often interested in
industry relationships and KDE can be a vehicle to provide these.

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