[Xapian-devel] Feedback on Listing at teachingopensource.org

[Leslie Hawthorn]

Hello Xapian Developers,

I am writing with feedback on your Help Wanted listing at
teachingopensource.org, specifically
http://www.teachingopensource.org/index.php/Help_Wanted:_Xapian

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).

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.

I'd like to organize an IRC meeting for the folks who have signed up  on the
teachingopensource.org FOSS Mentor Projects wiki page, and plan  to organize
the meeting time, etc., on the teachingopensource.org  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.

http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos

I'm hoping to schedule this meeting to take place the week of April 20th so
this should give you some time to subscribe.

Looking forward to working with you folks!

Cheers,
LH
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Leslie Hawthorn
http://www.hawthornlandings.org
http://identi.ca/lh
http://www.twitter.com/lhawthorn
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