Hey Anthony, I'd be happy to sign up as a Mentor again this year. I haven't added this to the ideas page yet since I've been keeping the project mostly quiet, but I've been working on porting Plan 9 to the ARM Chromebook. It might not be the best project for a student since at the moment, it requires a developer board from south korea that's not the easiest to get a hold of, though cost is low (around 250). Would it be worth mentioning this on the application?
Cheers, Steve On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 1:38 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Folks: > We're down to just about 24 hours remaining until org > applicaitons are due for Summer of Code 2013. After tomorrow > evening, the fine folks at Google will grab the application and > some key pages linked from it, such as the ideas page and > student application template, and begin evaluating orgs to > decide who gets to participate. > > The application itself is coming along nicely. It's mostly > the same as the past few years, so that's the easy part. The > bigger deal is the linked pages, most particularly the ideas > page. This is a key part of the evaluation process, and is the > thing that gets brought up most in the meetings for rejected > orgs most every year. We've gotten positive feedback on ours > for the past several years, but we still need to have this in really > solid shape. > > As of now, our idea page is a bit lighter on the variety of > ideas compared to what we've seen in the past. It would be > really good if folks could think hard about the sorts of projects > they'd be interested in being a mentor for and get those in > there ASAP. It would be especially good to have ideas attached > to a few more prospective mentors. > > Remember, putting your name on that page is in no way a > commitment to mentor any particular student/application/project. > We'll take a look at the specific applications we get and evaluate > them at that point. If you're thinking "I'd work on this, but only if > the student looked stellar", then put that in! > > The easiest (for me, and given the timing, for us generally) > way to do this is to edit the wiki directly; just follow the template > of the existing examples. If you can't do that, just send me email > with a description of the project (decent detail, please) and an > estimated difficulty, and I'll add it in. > > The wiki in general isn't really brought into the application > process, but it will be an important resource for interested > prospective students. If you've been putting off making any > changes there, adding things, fixing out of date info, now would > be a really good time to get a move on that. > > Much thanks to all the folks who've submitted ideas so far, > either to me or on the wiki directly. Looking forward to getting > this application done! > > Anthony > >
