I would volunteer for mentoring as well, but I don't know what things will be like in my new job. So I can't really say I will do it. Stefan
Am Saturday 03 March 2007 15:28 schrieb Egon Willighagen: > Dear CDK community, > > A bit over a week from now, the deadline for registering our project with > Google's summer of code. We did not participate the last two years, but we > can this year. > > There are some things to sort out, but first lets talk about the > advantages. > > 1. any student at a university can get payed for work on our project > > There are already some students working with/on CDK code. They can get > payed for it! 4500 dollar or so! That should be a good incentive to have a > student work on something interesting for your (research) group. Even PhD > students qualify, all that is required is a proof that the student is > associated with a university! > > 2,etc. more attention, more people working on CDK, more algorithms, etc. > > OK, now what needs to be sorted out [1]: > > a. we need a main organization administrator > > I can do this, but we also need a backup. > > b. mentors > > The mentors are those who supervise the SoC students. Now consider that you > have a student interested in a project in your research group, which > involves CDK code programming (*); you already supervise this student, so > no new overhead in being a mentor. > > Moreover, mentoring can also be done via the internet, so basically anyone > can be mentor. Additionally, the students are expected to participate in > the CDK community itself, so a mentor would not be at his/her own. > > *. the only requirement is that all source code created gets contributed to > the project > > c. projects > > Some projects are already listed [2], but any project is welcome which > involves CDK coding. > > d. students > > After the project has registered (and got approved), it is up to students > to apply. For this, we will need to advertise the Google SoC with students. > Students can come from any country, and I welcome anyone from anywhere to > participate in this. > > Hope to year from you soon! > > Egon > > 1.http://code.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=10442 > 2.http://wiki.cubic.uni-koeln.de/cdkwiki/doku.php?id=soc2007 -- Stefan Kuhn B. Sc. M. A. Cologne University BioInformatics Center (http://www.cubic.uni-koeln.de) Zülpicher Str. 47, 50674 Cologne Tel: +49(0)221-470-7428 Fax: +49 (0) 221-470-7786 My public PGP key is available at http://pgp.mit.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Cdk-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdk-user
