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Following recent discussions about possibly creating a Community Development (or Community Outreach) group within Apache, some of us would like to meet at ApacheCon Oakland 2009 to discuss the project's goals and organization.

When

The meeting will probably take place on Monday afternoon November 2nd, details and place to be defined - watch this space.

What

Here's a suggested description of the groups's goals, subject to discussion.

The plan is to organize the group as a PMC, with a similar structure and governance as our coding projects.

Community Development Project

The mission of the Community Development Project is to help students and would-be open source developers in becoming involved with Apache projects.

To this end, the Community Development Project coordinates the ASF's participation in student programs like GSoC and GHOP, and other similar programs.

Participation in the Community Development Project is open to all volunteers, and decisions are made by the project's PMC members, via votes on the project's public or private mailing lists.

MeetUp Agenda

The MeetUp will not follow a strict agenda, the idea is to follow the interests of those present and explore options for the Community Development group. However, here are some topics that may be discussed. Note, these are topics for discussion, it is not assumed that all these will be within the remit of the Community Development group, nor is it assumed that each point is a good idea:

  • making more of GSoC and GHOP
    • publicising student/mentor successes
    • clearer mentor guidelines
    • more active support of mentors and students
  • sharing resources with other mentoring activities
    • mentor manual from GSoC team
    • teaching open source group
    • mozilla education
    • etc.
  • mentoring outside of GSoC/GHOP
    • creating a rolling mentoring program (students and mentors are matched as and when they are available)
    • providiing recognition and reward for mentors and mentees
    • collecting and publicising mentee tasks
    • connecting mentees to tasks/mentors
  • mentoring as part of formal education/work based learning/internships
    • how to embed mentoring activities in formal education
    • how to embed mentoring in work based learning/internships
    • mediating between tutor/trainer and mentor/mentee

Please feel free to add other potential discussion points here.

Who

Current volunteers include:

  • Ross Gardler (rgardler at apache dot org)
  • Luciano Resende (lresende at apache dot org)
  • Santiago Gala (sgala at apache dot org)
  • Bertrand Delacretaz (bdelacretaz at apache dot org)
  • Kathey Marsden (kmarsdenderby at sbcglobal dot net)
  • Ted Dunning (ted dot dunning at gmail dot com)

Feel free to email us for questions about this, we don't have a mailing list for the group yet.

Add your name here if you're also interested in participating in the meeting, and maybe later as a member of the Community Development Project. Leave your email address if you want to receive details about the meeting's time and place.

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