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On 12/17/2012 10:32 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: |
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> Hi everyone, |
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> Give the talk on the list about attracting devs, I've should probably |
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> mention that I'm teaching a College Course on Gentoo Development next |
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> semester. I know two students will most likely go through the |
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> recruitment process, others may at least contribute. So its like GSoC |
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> but the focus is not one project but an overview of general gentoo |
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> development, and I will have to touch on lots of stuff outside of gentoo |
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> per se, like how autotools and other build systems work. |
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This is a great idea, and is essentially the "pay someone to recruit" |
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approach taken to an extreme. I would be willing to pay for a class like |
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this (online or otherwise) if it meant that there were a clear set of |
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goals, which if met, meant that I'd become a developer. |
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Why can't something like this *be* the recruiting process? Put up a |
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syllabus. The "wait to be noticed" process is so vague as to be useless. |
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