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Date: Mon Feb 11 00:24:44 2013
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+Title:     Advice for Students
+Notice:    Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+           or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+           distributed with this work for additional information
+           regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+           to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+           "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+           with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+           .
+             http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+           .
+           Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+           software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+           "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+           KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+           specific language governing permissions and limitations
+           under the License.
+
+As a well-known open source project, we get many requests each semester from students interested in volunteering with us.  Often it is a
+requirement for a course that they contribute to an open source project or demonstrate some specific skill or knowledge in a real-world
+context.  The following points will help make the experience volunteering with the OpenOffice project a good one for all:
+
+  - Let us know what you are trying to accomplish.  Do you need to volunteer a specific number of hours?  Weeks?  Enough to write up a report?
+  When do you need to have this done?  Next week?  Or three months from now?  The more you let us know what your goal is the better we can
+  recommend appropriate tasks for you to work on.
+
+  - Similarly, let us know what skills you have.  C++?  Technical writing?  Translation?  Communications? Graphic design?
+
+  - For example, an ideal query might be, "I am a 3rd year computer science student.  I have 1 year exerience with C++.  I need to contribute to an
+  open source project for the duration of this semester (ending in May).  I was hoping I could help with QA, maybe 2 hours a week for this time."
+
+  - Be patient and don't be deterred if your initial notes are not responded to immediately.  We're a community of volunteers, spread through
+  many time zones.  Many of us have "day jobs" or otherwise work on OpenOffice only part time.  
+
+  - In general, it takes longer to become productive with the programming side of OpenOffice than with the QA, translation or marketing areas.
+  Keep this in mind if you will be volunteering only for a short period of time (less than a month or two).
+
+  - We cannot offer any formal grade or evaluation of a student's contributions, but your contributions will be public, on our mailing lists
+  and other tools, so your professor can easily verify your work. 
+
+  - If your class will be having multiple students wanting to volunteer at the same time, please have your professor contact us in advance,
+  so we can understand the course requirements and have time to prepare of some appropriate tasks.
+
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