A hello to all at this list! We are currently piloting an "open" approach for the course "Introduction to Software Engineering" (ISE) at Aristotle University in Greece, aimed at bringing together Aristotle students, students from fellow universities, open source practitioners and anyone else interested in SE. To facilitate the students entrance to open source projects we are now trying to organize some live events for Jan / Feb 2008 (chats, video sessions or pod casts at ustream) that would introduce the students to some aspects relevant to working in open source environments. Therefore I wondered if anyone here might be interested in chairing one of those live events and to talk (A) about a open source project he/she is engaged at and provide some information on experiences and challenges, ways to contribute to it, etc and (B) about a more generic topic relevant for "newbies" (e.g. "understanding the code", etc). For this ISE course we set up an experimental open learning space ( http://www.netgeners.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=39&Itemid=92 ) to facilitate the students work and to provide a central meeting point for the different stakeholders. What we would like to achieve with this is to bring together open source development & software engineering education – means to create a win / win scenario by allowing students to gain practical skills (plus some soft skills) meanwhile contributing to an open source project. The ISE course has app. 160 students per semester and the students are supposed to carry out a project work within a open source project, contributing to this open source project in one out of three ways: 1. to identify (and fix) bugs, 2. to contribute to the code, or 3. to draft / improve the requirement specification documentation. In the case you would know people from other open source projects that might also be interested in chairing a live event I would be glad if you could circulate this mail. Hope someone here might find this of interest! Tips or hints to similar initiatives are more than welcome! Best Regards Andreas Meiszner -- With kind regards, Mit freundlichen Grüßen Com os melhores cumprimentos Andreas Meiszner ______________________________ Institute of Educational Technology The Open University Milton Keynes MK7 6AA United Kingdom --