<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>I would like to work with an area that allows the use of python or c++ if possible. Beyond that I am open to anything.<br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Olly Betts <olly@survex.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Bruce Bland <bjbland2004@yahoo.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> xapian-devel@lists.xapian.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tue, February 8, 2011 10:22:55 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Xapian-devel] Mentorship<br></font><br>
On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 02:44:58PM -0800, Bruce Bland wrote:<br>> Hello, I am interested in an open source online mentorship. I don't<br>> know if the information is up to date, but this link says you are<br>> interested in students. I would like to learn who open source<br>> development and practical programming works.<br><br>I guess you found us from this page?<br><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.teachingopensource.org/index.php/FOSS_Mentor_Projects">http://www.teachingopensource.org/index.php/FOSS_Mentor_Projects</a></span><br><br>Yes, we're certainly still happy to mentor students (and non-students)<br>how would like to work on Xapian.<br><br>If you're wanting general background information on how open source<br>development works, this is a good introduction:<br><br><span><a target="_blank"
href="http://www.teachingopensource.org/index.php/How_to_start_contributing_to_or_using_Open_Source_Software">http://www.teachingopensource.org/index.php/How_to_start_contributing_to_or_using_Open_Source_Software</a></span><br><br>Do you have a particular ideas what you'd like to work on? There are<br>some ideas of useful and interesting areas to look at here:<br><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/HelpWanted">http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/HelpWanted</a></span><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/GSoCProjectIdeas">http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/GSoCProjectIdeas</a></span><br><br>If you're a student in higher education, you might want to consider<br>applying to Google's Summer of Code:<br><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://code.google.com/soc/">http://code.google.com/soc/</a></span><br><br>We're intending to apply as a mentoring organisation this year.<br><br>Cheers,<br>
Olly<br></div></div>
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