How to engage with the academic developer community … or even should you?

I've talked with several people lately who have asked about how they might best work with student developers. The short version of the story: it’s expensive and somewhat of a luxury, especially for a smaller company. How students interact with developer resources To provide some context, here’s my perspective on how students interact with dev resources. First: students work on projects their instructors want them to work on. There are outliers – the exceptions – who consume everything they can find, who build their own apps, who are entrepreneurial. But they’re the exceptions. Most students are busy being college [...]