Getting More College Students Involved In Open Source

Working in a collaborative open source project is one of the most valuable experiences an aspiring software engineer can have. The Apereo Foundation is launching a new "Student Contributors" program this year to get more college students involved in developing enterprise-level open source software that is actively used by their own colleges and universities. Come learn more about the program and talk with us about your ideas for the goals, activities, and partnerships the program should pursue.

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1. Open Apereo 2015 Higher Education ... Open Source in a New Age Getting More College Students Involved In Open Source
2. Abstract: Working in a collaborative open source project is one of the most valuable experiences an aspiring software engineer can have. The Apereo Foundation is launching a new "Student Contributors" program this year to get more college students involved in developing enterprise-level open source software that is actively used by their own colleges and universities. Come learn more about the program and talk with us about your ideas for the goals, activities, and partnerships the program should pursue.
3. Motivations • Get more students into software engineering • Make open source cool again • Open source as best resume-builder • Education about collaboration and teamwork • Help students understand licensing • Encourage more diversity in open source
4. Why Apereo? • Already connected with colleges • History/expertise around real projects • Expertise in all the relevant areas • Projects students can relate to • Opportunity to work on flagship projects
5. Apereo Mission (from Bylaws) The core mission of the Foundation is to assist and facilitate educational organizations which “collaborate to foster, develop, and sustain open technologies and innovation to support learning, teaching, and research."
6. Apereo Purpose (from Bylaws) • Promoting and fostering education by strengthening the practical collaboration between educational organizations, the sharing of best practice, and dissemination of results of innovative approaches to applying open technology architectures and systems in an educational context • Sustaining and developing a global community of interest among educational institutions to advance open source and open standards technologies, architectures, systems and content, and promoting international collaboration in these areas
7. What could we do? • Senior capstone software engineering projects (like ASU Poly program) • On-campus events • Hackathons • Fellowships/grants/internships for student developers • Programming competitions like Rails Rumble http://railsrumble.com/ • Startup Weekend Edu events
8. A Soundbite We love: Google Summer of Code We need: Apereo Fall-Winter-Spring of Code These could be complementary
9. Who could we partner with? • Open Source Initiative (OSI) • OpenHatch campus workshops • SIGCSE comp sci educators • TeachingOpenSource community • TheOpenSourceWay community • RedHat POSSE faculty summer program • OpenSource.com education area • ISKME open education
10. What kind of help do we need? • Organization • Promotion • Financial • Technology • Event Space • Project Ideas • Volunteers! • Others?