Robin Edwards wrote: > Hi, > > I am currently doing my dissertation on the parrot virtual machine, > its compiler tool kit in particular. I would be interested in taking > part in GSoC but I will be graduating in July does that mean I am out? >
I just go this about it:- [Fwd: Re: [pm_groups] Fwd: [Boston.pm] can we find one student for GSoC 2009?] Hi all, Bill raises a good point here: # from Bill Ricker >what information do we wish to convey to the prospective students? At this moment, no mentor org can guarantee themselves or any students a place in GSoC. So, the message we want to get across is that Perl is still an exciting and widely used language, Google's Summer of Code is an awesome program, and that The Perl Foundation and Parrot Foundation intend to apply to be mentor organizations this year. The details of how to apply for the program and such will likely be similar to last year, but the known/important points for students to consider initially are: 1) it is a competitive program (limited number of slots) 2) it occupies the entire summer (like a full-time internship) 3) it looks great on a resume and they get a $4500 stipend 4) all of their work happens in public 5) proposals are due in ~March and selected in ~April 6) work runs from ~June thru ~August 7) finished code must be under an OSI-approved open source license >the parallelism link just suggests providing students, but not what >we're to sell them on! I'm hoping that it is more a matter of making contact with the right students than any sort of "hard sell". Excellent candidates will be the self-motivated and enthusiastic sort with passion and talent. Prior experience with open source is beneficial. Experience in some sort of programming is necessary, but requisite language experience depends on what project they choose. i.e. Perl 5 and C are widely applicable, but neither is strictly required for contributing to perl 6, rakudo, pugs, or even parrot. The potential projects range from dealing with virtual machine and language/compiler concepts (including garbage collection) all the way through desktop and web development. The student's knowledge and interests are likely to determine what they choose to do -- and the great students are going to learn a lot of new things to get to where they want to go. So, the focus right now is on finding enthusiastic and talented students who are interested in Perl and would be a good fit for the GSoC program. Once you have found one or more likely candidates, you can update them on details as things progress. And finally, we don't need to be focussed exclusively on GSoC candidates. If you talk to ten students about Perl, we're all better off for that effort. You might find one who is a great candidate, or one of the students you talked to might tell their friend about it. You might simply find yourself a new co-worker. And even if you find zero candidates, you still talked to students about Perl! Thanks, Eric _______________________________________________ BristolBathPM mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/bristolbathpm
