All,
Google has just announced the summer of code program for this summer
(http://code.google.com/soc/2008/). This will be the fourth summer they
are running the program. SOC is an opportunity for various open source
software projects to get students to work on project's of interest with
Google paying the student a fairly nice summer stipend and a smaller
stipend to the mentoring organization.
I am more than happy to coordinate this effort and to deal with the
paperwork if others think it's worthwhile. (Obviously I do or else I
wouldn't be mentioning it on the list :) The first step IMNSHO is to
brainstorm several tasks we would want a student to work on. Obviously
working on the Lua core is out, but there are a lot of other
possibilities. In fact, helping to develop almost any of the projects
at Lua Forge are good candidates.
The benefits are as follows: good exposure for Lua (ok, only a benefit
if you think Lua should be exposed :), good experience for student(s),
and the opportunity for moving some pet project forward.
So that we're all on the same page (a saying I loathe, but find myself
using frequently), here's what needs to be done:
1) The mentoring organization (that would be "the AOLserver community")
needs to put together an application which includes who the admin for
the project is, what license does the product use, how does the org
communicate, etc, etc, what to do if a mentor flakes out, how will we
choose our mentors, etc...
This is due by 12 March, but the earlier the better. Last year I was
involved in putting together a mentoring organization application which
we turned in on the last day. By then Google had already received more
applications than they were willing to support (although they have
expanded the program significantly each year).
2) We need a list of project ideas. There are two^h^h^hthree things
this list does: a) list projects we want to have worked on (duh) and b)
serves as advertising of our organization (i.e. hey look at all the cool
things so-and-so has going) and c) sparks ideas in students' heads
because students are allowed/encouraged to submit their own proposals.
A wiki page for people to start listing possible projects is probably
the best way to go. When you put project ideas on the page, I encourage
to list yourself as mentor _if_ you want. If not, we can find someone.
Matt
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