[Minsk-pm] Fwd: [pm_groups] Summer of Code 2009 - engaging with students

[Andrei]

И с распилом прибыли! ;)

2009/1/15 Yuri Pac <yu.pats на gmail.com>:
> Если будут желающие, то найдем проект и поможем с организацией и навыками.
>
> В Москве говорят о курсах для студентов.
>
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 09:38, Andrei Protasovitski
> <andrei.protasovitski на gmail.com> wrote:
>> Студенты есть?
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Eric Wilhelm <scratchcomputing на gmail.com>
>> Date: 2009/1/9
>> Subject: [pm_groups] Summer of Code 2009 - engaging with students
>> To: pm_groups на pm.org
>> Копия: tpf-steering на perl.org, directors на lists.parrot.org
>>
>>
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> It's very cold here.  Time to start thinking about summer!
>>
>> The student proposals for Google's Summer of Code will be due in a
>> couple short months and Google has just given word that the program
>> will indeed be on again this year.
>>
>> For 2008, we had a great turnout of willing and able mentors, but only
>> about 16 student applications.  This implies that we need to try to
>> reach more students and encourage them to apply for summer of code this
>> year.
>>
>> We'll probably start to see more information from Google about SOC 2009
>> within a month or so.  For now:
>>
>>  http://tinyurl.com/9r55v3
>>
>> Last year taught us that the returning organizations which started early
>> were more successful in recruiting students.  While we can't say for
>> sure that Perl/Parrot will be accepted as mentor organizations, we'll
>> get a very late start if we wait.  If it (knock on wood) doesn't
>> happen, the Perl community will still benefit from efforts to connect
>> with more students.
>>
>> The following are just a few ideas of what your local Perl Mongers group
>> could do to help.  Please forward this to your mailing list or discuss
>> it at your next meeting.
>>
>> Find out if your local university has Perl in the curriculum.  If so,
>> get in touch with the professors and let them know about your local
>> Perl Mongers group.  Ask if they would be interested in you speaking to
>> their class or giving a presentation on-campus.
>>
>> If the computer science department doesn't seem interested in Perl, you
>> might find users (or potential users) in other departments.  Think
>> about all of the niche data-crunching for which Perl gets used.  Find
>> grad students who might be doing that - whatever their major might be.
>>
>> Are any members of your group recently graduated?  If so, the contacts
>> they still have might be a great place to start, especially in non-cs
>> disciplines.  Even in very specialized applications, the chances are
>> that the Perl community contains a mentor with a related background.
>>
>> Finally, I would be interested in hearing from any Perl Mongers groups
>> which have been involved with on-campus activities or are meeting on
>> campus.  Please send me mail about what you are doing, or even write
>> about it on use.perl.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Eric
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