Student projects and mentors

Hi all,

I'm Anil Gulecha, a Sun Campus Ambassador at JSSATE,
Bangalore, India.

I was looking through interesting projects on java.net that
students
can work. I found https://sc-
student-projects.dev.java.net/

The code for freedom contest was launched on aug 15
ht
tp://in.sun.com/communities/univ/codeforfreedom/  runnin
gfor 6
months till Feb 08. The goal is to involve students in the
community.
In this regard I have the following queries:

* Would the developers at sip-communicator be willing to
mentor
students through any project at sc-student?
* If yes, how much time would the mentors be able to put
in?

*Could you list the minimum pre-requisite for students to
participate?

*Some students have never contributed to open source
projects, and
have studied Java and have knowledge of Netbeans. However
most would
have to go through the initial learning phase for some time,
before
they can contribute. Are there docs online that will help
students
through this phase?

* Is there anyway non-technical students can contribute to
the project?

*Last, and not the least, are there other projects that
would like
student involvement. I've not looked extensively at
java.net, so
pointers to any projects would be appreciated.

Regards
Anil

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Hello Anil,

Sorry for the late reply!

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Anil Gulecha wrote:
> The code for freedom contest was launched on aug 15
> ht
tp://in.sun.com/communities/univ/codeforfreedom/  runnin
gfor 6
> months till Feb 08. The goal is to involve students in
the community.

Thanks for letting us know. Sounds interesting!
> In this regard I have the following queries:
> 
> * Would the developers at sip-communicator be willing
to mentor
> students through any project at sc-student?

The sc-student-projects meta project on java.net is not
really the best
place to look for project ideas. Many of the projects there
are
currently being worked on by students in the context of
different programs.

This is of course not really a problem and if other students
are
interested we could probably come up with a list of new
ideas (there's
always a lot to do around here).

> * If yes, how much time would the mentors be able to
put in?

I guess this would depend on the mentors that get involved,
as well as
the level of autonomy that you'd expect students to have.
Judging from
previous experience more than 4 would be hard to get and 2
is probably a
reasonable number.

> *Could you list the minimum pre-requisite for students
to participate?

This one is hard to define. I'd say that having some
programming
experience is probably the most important one. Knowing Java
also helps.
Other than that I don't think that there should be any
strict
requirements, as long as the students are really interested
in the project.


> *Some students have never contributed to open source
projects, and
> have studied Java and have knowledge of Netbeans.
However most would
> have to go through the initial learning phase for some
time, before
> they can contribute. Are there docs online that will
help students
> through this phase?

Yes, we developer documentation that we are trying to keep
up to date.
It's available here:

http://www.sip-communicator.org/in
dex.php/Documentation/DeveloperDocumentation

> * Is there anyway non-technical students can contribute
to the project?

Hmm ... good question. There probably is but I don't really
have any
precise ideas. It mostly depends on what they'd like to do.

> *Last, and not the least, are there other projects that
would like
> student involvement. I've not looked extensively at
java.net, so
> pointers to any projects would be appreciated.

We're in close collaboration with the jain-sip project which
is also
very active and would probably be of interest to students.

Cheers
Emil

> 
> Regards
> Anil
> 
>
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