Hello Xapian Developers,<br><br>I am writing with feedback on your Help Wanted listing at <a href="http://teachingopensource.org">teachingopensource.org</a>, specifically <a href="http://www.teachingopensource.org/index.php/Help_Wanted:_Xapian">http://www.teachingopensource.org/index.php/Help_Wanted:_Xapian</a><br>
<br>Overall, I think your project listing looks very well done. On your ideas page, you haven't done a lot to sell/market each idea. Why is development of this specific project going to improve Xapian overall? How will that improvement empower/improve some of the downstream projects you mention use Xapian (e.g. Debian, OLPC). <br>
<br>I think you'll see more interest from students if you jazz up the listings a bit. I think for professors it's probably fine as is, though some verbiage about why having a good fundamental understanding of search is a good thing for students would be useful to both parties.<br>
<br><p>I'd like to organize an IRC meeting for the folks who have signed up
on the <a href="http://teachingopensource.org">teachingopensource.org</a> FOSS Mentor Projects wiki page, and plan
to organize the meeting time, etc., on the <a href="http://teachingopensource.org">teachingopensource.org</a>
mailing list. Would whomever from your team is interested in attending
please ensure that you're signed up on this mailing list? It's pretty
low traffic and I will prefix all messages with [MENTORS] in the subject line so you can further filter your mail.
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<br> </p><p>I'm hoping to schedule this meeting to take place the week of April
20th so this should give you some time to subscribe.
<br> </p><p>Looking forward to working with you folks!
<br> </p><p>Cheers,
<br> LH
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<br> Leslie Hawthorn
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