[Stipend channel] - Explore Professor strategy

[pdgonzalez872]

This came up due to Annette's stipend proposal for Code BEAM. This is a fantastic channel to explore, let's do it here.

Benefits

There are many benefits from this, including:

• shared responsibility with the Professor for vetting the students, for making sure folks attend
• able to reach a bigger audience due to one professor to many students relationship
• have implicit control that the output will be completed, since the Professor has a
• can use volume for leverage and get discounts

Things to flush out:

• the output (reports, student blog posts, follow Phoenix tutorial from beginning to end, etc)
• keep relationship with the Professor and students. 1 year later, did this work? Are people using Elixir on side projects?

I personally think this is the best way to scale our stipend proposals and probably the best ROI for any of the existing channels we have for stipends.

Thoughts?

Action points:

• flush out the above "to flush out"
• monitor approved stipend (Annette) and gather data.

[bieniusa]

Some thoughts:

• We should introduce students to more FOSS projects, the culture (or how we ideally envision it), etc. To this end, having a list of projects that are willing to help mentor students and / or propose tasks would be useful.
• Hackathons would be a way to do the same, but beyond the scope of students. Works well in some communities, like the Haskell community. I am not aware of similar things in Erlang/Elixir.
• Is there somewhere a list of companies offering internship for students with Erlang knowledge?
• Guest speakers for lectures would also be interesting, though this scales only to a certain extend.

[pdgonzalez872]

@bieniusa thanks for the input.

We should introduce students to more FOSS projects, the culture (or how we ideally envision it), etc. To this end, having a list of projects that are willing to help mentor students and / or propose tasks would be useful.

Interesting! Two things come to mind:

• 1) Since we are discussing the Professor Channel in this issue and you were just awarded the first stipend for this channel (yay!), when you say We should introduce students to more FOSS projects I assume you are talking from the perspective of the Professor, who has a class of students learning BEAM related languages and is looking for activities to provide as output for receiving the stipend. Is this correct?

• 2) Or, are you just discussing in general, that you wish you had a list of BEAM related open source projects to point your students to?

• 3) regardless of 2 or 3, I don't think you'd find mentors, officially, for such an effort. Maybe I'm not understanding the ask exactly here. You want volunteers from the open source projects to show the codebase around to students?

Create issue about "How to contribute to open source". Lots of material in that front. Could make it more specific to BEAM languages, by showing the awesome-elixir/awesome-* lists?

Hackathons would be a way to do the same, but beyond the scope of students. Works well in some communities, like the Haskell community. I am not aware of similar things in Erlang/Elixir.

I created this issue to keep discussions related to hackathons together: https://github.com/erlef/education-wg/issues/23

Is there somewhere a list of companies offering internship for students with Erlang knowledge?

Here is a list for of Elixir companies: https://elixir-companies.com/en. I'm not aware of such a list for Erlang.

Guest speakers for lectures would also be interesting, though this scales only to a certain extend.

Please see https://github.com/erlef/education-wg/issues/8

[pdgonzalez872]

What are potential outputs we could ask the Professor to ask the students?

I like the exploring the tutorials for the main libraries for the languages. I think that's a great one. In the Phoenix example, maybe they follow the tutorial and then write a small report on the experience and give it to the Professor?