Great suggestion Srikanth!<div><br></div><div>I totally agree with you on quality, staging and motivation aspects.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Ram</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:srik.lak@gmail.com">srik.lak@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>Apart from studying ourselves, It would also be interesting to do a case study of similar student participatory programs and take best practices and incorporate them. Google Summer of Code would be a classic example, though its a summer contract, but some of the aspects are worth comparing.</div>
<div><br></div><div>1. GSoC has a steep(okay relatively much higher) barrier to entry to attract the cream of students inturn the number of students would be significantly less.</div><div>2. Many students continue to contribute to the organization / open source in general beyond the contract</div>
<div>3. Strong staging process to cross the gates(merging the codeline happens mostly post final evaluation) ensures impact of the student does not affect the community.</div><div>4. Many communities are largely happy to participate in GSoC since they usually get contributors to the community.</div>
<div>5. Communication models that exist in the program, typically there would be hardly anyone from the city / country for that matter to mentor. The communication happens online inspite of timezone differences.</div><div>
6. GSoC gives a huge money as motivation, but most students join the program for reasons beyond money though they swipe the cards :D</div><div><br></div><div>There are few students on this list who took the same program with WMF, they could share some insights too!</div>
<div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Srikanth L</div>
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