Dennis, per our conversation earlier today: I've made some progress in our online application, and it turns out they do indeed want the "ideas list" at this stage -- that is, the ideas for what students could do this summer with Arches.
Google gives a good description of this at https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2014/help_page#3._What_is_an_Ideas_list . I'll paste it here for convenience: | An Ideas list should be a list of suggested student projects. This | list is meant to introduce contributors to your project's needs and | to provide inspiration to would-be student applicants. It is useful | to classify each idea as specifically as possible, e.g. "must know | Python" or "easier project; good for a student with more limited | experience with C++." If your organization plans to provide a | proposal template for the students, it would be good to include it | on your Ideas list. | | Keep in mind that your ideas list should be a starting point for | student proposals; we've heard from past mentoring organization | participants that some of their best student projects are those that | greatly expanded on a proposed idea or were blue-sky proposals not | mentioned on the ideas list at all. At a minimum, all the ideas on | your Ideas List should include the expected outcome of the project, | a potential mentor, the skills and/or languages required to complete | the project, and a general "difficulty" level. A link to a bug | tracker for your open source organization is NOT an ideas list. | "Placeholder" or inaccessible ideas pages will be grounds for an | automatic rejection for participation in Google Summer of Code 2014. | | You can check out the Ideas list for KDE | (http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2011/Ideas) for Google Summer of Code | in 2011 to get an idea of what we’re looking for in an ideas list. I assume that Farallon can come up with the ideas list over the next couple of days. The best place to post it would be either at a URL like http://archesproject.org/gsoc/2014 or (better yet) in a wiki page in BitBucket where students could potentially edit or propose other ideas. Either way, the Ideas List page should include a link to this discussion group. It is typical for student applicants to ask questions on the project's mailing list while they're considering applying. A couple of other bits of administrivia: 1) We'll need at least one more person besides me to create an organization member account -- should be someone from Farallon, I think. Create that account at "Begin Registration" here: https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014 ...then please tell me the username created (e.g., I'm "kfogel"), so I can name that person as the Backup Administrator in the organizational application form (which is a whole separate thing from the individual org member form). 2) I'm registerign an IRC channel on the Freenode.net network, #arches, so there's a place for real-time communications between students and mentors. (The application asks about this, and it's a good idea.) That's all for now; will follow up here as I come across other things. Best, -Karl -- -- To post, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]. For more information, visit https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Arches Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
