In my past experience the role of project admin for GSoC project would be the most challenging. To get started we need to setup a wiki page explaining how we want to define our participation, what are the rules for students to submit their applications. For example it's a very common practice that every participating student should submit some patch or do some work as a qualification task. Another important important task is to evangelize the project among students so they know CloudStack exists. For example, we tried to do one for VLMC [1] (but failed to attract any student). Lastly, every participating project gets no. of slots (no. of students that project can have) which is proportional to no. of application (more of less) that project gets. After getting selected as a project and getting no. of slots it's up to the project admin to select proposed project/student and their mentor.
If we serious, we can get started by evangelizing our project and work on a wiki on which we propose certain ideas and mentors, but students would actually propose their ideas [1]. [1] http://wiki.videolan.org/SoC_2012#VLMC Regards. On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Nitin Mehta <nitin.me...@citrix.com> wrote: > +1. > I would love to participate as well. > > On 14/02/13 9:21 AM, "Rohit Yadav" <bhais...@apache.org> wrote: > >>On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 1:45 AM, Joe Brockmeier <j...@zonker.net> wrote: >>> Hey all, >>> >>> Google has announced its dates [1] for Summer of Code. We've touched on >>> this previously [2] and there was some concern it wasn't a great use of >>> time. >>> >>> However, I thought I'd bring it up in case there's any interest in >>> trying to participate. (There's no guarantee that we'd be accepted in >>> any case, though Google is good about 'rotating' orgs so that it's not >>> always the same mentoring organizations every year.) I'd be happy to do >>> the legwork to get us signed up for GSoC, but we'd need a few developers >>> to help mentor actual projects. >> >>+1 I want to help. >> >>Regards. >> >>> >>> If we decide not to do it, that's fine too - but I wanted to discuss it >>> so it's conscious decision rather than an "oops, we missed the deadline" >>> thing. >>> >>> [1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2013 >>> [2] http://markmail.org/thread/mpukxgs2a3lqgt7a >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> jzb >>> -- >>> Joe Brockmeier >>> j...@zonker.net >>> Twitter: @jzb >>> http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ >
