Panel: Building the Future of Your Pr...
Panelat Cloud Native University | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 · on Tuesday, 2024-11-12·
summary
Students join through a campus club that runs project leads for KNative and Firefox, course integrations that require a PR as a deliverable, and structured mentorships like LFX (three cohorts a year, ~200 mentees last year) and Google Summer of Code (~15 seats). Programs use weekly check-ins, workshops (JetBrains, GitHub), internships and capstones, and face practical limits: hardware constraints, timezone scheduling, scarce “good first” issues, and stipend-driven dropoff after programs end.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Engaging students in open source
- 2:28Student engagement in open source
- 3:30U of T open source club launch
- 5:15CNCF mentorship for students
- 7:22University cloud-native mentorship
- 10:11Student engagement methods
- 11:13Structured mentorship benefits
- 14:26Student clubs in open source
- 17:16Open source in university lectures
- 19:25Lecture-based student engagement
- 20:28CNCF projects with student clubs
- 22:16CNCF projects in mentorship
- 24:45Connecting projects to universities
- 26:56Q&A on faculty engagement
- 29:47AI misuse in student apps
- 32:27Curriculum timing for contributions
- 33:25Teaching industry tools
- 35:09Closing remarks
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