FreeDevelopers Students Group

Andrew Mitchell

27 January, 2001

What is FD-Students?

FD-Students is the group setup within FreeDevelopers for the purpose of encouraging students to research and contribute to free software. Students will be encouraged to bring their existing projects to this list and FreeDevelopers, and there will be a framework setup where students can get assistance with their free software project. These projects can be organised with developers in small working groups to help out students in need of assistance. An area will be setup such as a noticeboard/discussion forum on this website, where students can post essays and other forms of their work.

Rules of this list

• No personal attacks on other list members; respect that people have differing points of view, you can disagree with their ideas, but do not attack them personally.

• All projects submitted to the Students list, must fall under the general FreeDevelopers guidelines; i.e., they must be GPL-licensed.

• Topics of discussion: As the main purpose of this list is the encouragement of development of free software by students, we will not tolerate off-topic threads that do not fall into these categories:
  1. research into new ideas;
  2. assistance with free software projects of other students;
  3. requests for assistance, and announcements of projects (this should be kept to a minimum, and approved by the list maintainer);
  4. discussion of existing free software projects by FreeDevelopers (preferably kept on the appropriate project list, but discussion of ideas to involve more people is ok).

• All rules listed here will be superseded by appropriate parts of the constitution, once the constitution is finalised -- these rules will not be unconstitutional.

FD-Students Projects

This is a list of projects that we on FD-Students are currently planning or working on:

• The first project that is in the planning stage is a GNOME application, built using bonobo components which can be distributed over a network. This is mainly a project where we learn about distributed applications, and document what we learn; there is a lack of decent documentation on this subject, from what I've seen.