{"id":53,"date":"2004-02-29T23:11:36","date_gmt":"2004-03-01T04:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=53"},"modified":"2004-02-29T23:11:36","modified_gmt":"2004-03-01T04:11:36","slug":"mollys-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/02\/29\/mollys-kids","title":{"rendered":"Molly&#8217;s kids!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spent half the day with Dr. Molly&#8217;s &#8220;kids&#8221;. OK, they&#8217;re folks she&#8217;s taken on to give them some work to do in the open source world &#8211; UTAR students on an attachment. Spoke to them about Fedora, OpenOffice.org and GNOME; introduced them to IssueZilla\/Bugzilla and how they might find QA&#8217;ing bugs useful.<\/p>\n<p>I see these ten bright students doing good things&#8230; They might not code well (yet), but they will be open source indoctrinated in due time. That said, I can&#8217;t stand the way the local uni&#8217;s are teaching them. They&#8217;re not. They&#8217;re learning more at this 6-month attachment (already in month two) rather than their first two years at uni. Sucks. And they&#8217;re paying big bucks.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Molly%27s%20kids%21&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2004%2F02%2F29%2Fmollys-kids&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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