[Learnosm-coord] [HOT Training] Outreachy Project Ideas and Mentors

[Blake Girardot]

Hi Althio and everyone.

I agree with you althio about the possiblities for education.

Personally, I really like the idea of a project to create some very well 
done moodle content, a course or two or 3.

I think the moodle concept is a great one that holds a lot of promise 
for helping us increase the consistency of our work, but I also have 
seen that creating good, helpful content is a lot of work and would 
really benefit from someone dedicating time and effort to it.

moodle doesn't make the work any more, in fact it helps organize the 
content, but it does need solid, well planned out content.

I am going to write up a project proposal for it. I just need to get 
some feedback on what realistic goals are for a project the length of 
the Outreachy internships are.

Cheers,
Blake





On 2/10/2015 12:45 PM, althio wrote:
> Forwarding to the Training WG.and LearnOSM.
>
> @Traning @LearnOSM Please read below about:
>> we would like to gather project ideas and possible mentors for an intern on a 3 month open source project, which can include coding, documentation or marketing.
>> it would be better if project ideas for Outreachy are focused on documentation writing and marketing ventures, while coding projects for GSoC
>
> I think "documentation writing" or a bit of coding are well suited in
> the context of Training-LearnOSM. What do you think?
>
> @Mhairi
> I drafted some ideas related to LearnOSM in [2] but I am unsure of the
> requested syntax in [3].
>
>
> althio
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>
> https://groups.google.com/a/hotosm.org/d/msg/techwg/Wvwr2aArpBI/cKz6Awfmv7gJ
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> HOT will be enlisting as a participating organisation in the upcoming
> Outreachy program (formerly known as the Outreach Program for Women)
> [1] for the second time running!
>
> Currently we would like to gather project ideas and possible mentors
> for an intern on a 3 month open source project, which can include
> coding, documentation or marketing.
>
> The application for participating organisations opens on the 15th of
> February, so brainstorming ideas from the community would be great.
>
> Please take a look at the project idea proposal draft [2] and the HOT
> Outreachy wiki page [3] for more information, and feel free to
> contribute and add any potential ideas.
>
> Although a coding project can be accepted, as this program is running
> alongside the Google Summer or Code (25th May - 25th August), it would
> be better if project ideas for Outreachy are focused on documentation
> writing and marketing ventures, while coding projects for GSoC
>
> [1] http://gnome.org/opw/
> [2] https://docs.google.com/a/hotosm.org/document/d/1GUiycqF14MQ8I5isdNqFmvDt5xgNqOfQacauHHFqv-A/edit?usp=sharing
> [3] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/February_2015_Outreachy_Project_Ideas
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Mhairi
>