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

[althio]

+1 for Moodle as project proposal

I cannot yet write to TechWG [membership is pending].

On 10 February 2015 at 14:50, Blake Girardot <bgirardot at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi Althio and everyone.
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> I agree with you althio about the possiblities for education.
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> Personally, I really like the idea of a project to create some very well
> done moodle content, a course or two or 3.
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> 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.
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> moodle doesn't make the work any more, in fact it helps organize the
> content, but it does need solid, well planned out content.
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> 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.
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> Cheers,
> Blake
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> On 2/10/2015 12:45 PM, althio wrote:
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>> Forwarding to the Training WG.and LearnOSM.
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>> @Traning @LearnOSM Please read below about:
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>>> 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?
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>> @Mhairi
>> I drafted some ideas related to LearnOSM in [2] but I am unsure of the
>> requested syntax in [3].
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>>
>> althio
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>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
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>> https://groups.google.com/a/hotosm.org/d/msg/techwg/Wvwr2aArpBI/cKz6Awfmv7gJ
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>> Hello everyone,
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>> 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!
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>> 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.
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>> The application for participating organisations opens on the 15th of
>> February, so brainstorming ideas from the community would be great.
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>> 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.
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>> 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
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>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Mhairi
>>
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