On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Chip Childers <chip.child...@sungard.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 02:35:02PM +0530, Rohit Yadav wrote: >> 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/ >> > >> > > It sounds like there are at least three potential mentors willing to > help. Rohit or Joe, do you want to follow up with the dev@community > list to see if ASF is going to try to participate this year? Perhaps > they will at a top level, and we can be part of that? In fact, we > probably can only do it if the ASF does it as an org. >
Hi Joe, can you take this one? I think I've seen Hadoop, Apache and different projects participating differently and ASF as well in the past. Just to inform I may be mentoring another project [1], but anyway would help all. [1] http://wiki.videolan.org/SoC_2013#AirPlay_streaming Regards. > -chip >
