Folks can proposed ideas and projects on SoC 2013 page from; https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/GSoC
We also need to update content on qualification tasks, participation, mentoring and getting started. Regards. On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Joe Brockmeier <j...@zonker.net> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2013, at 11:20 AM, Rohit Yadav wrote: >> 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. > > Just following up on this: > > We don't need to apply separately to GSoC, the ASF joins as one org - > then projects within the ASF propose projects. > > Here's what Ross Gardler said when I asked on d...@community.apache.org: > > "Yes you wait. We apply as a foundation. > > The sooner your project starts identifying project opportunities and > discussing it on the lists the sooner potential students can start to > engage with you. No need to wait for formal acceptance of the org, but > don't make any promises to anyone. > > There isn't a restriction on incubator projects, but the evaluation > criteria tend to make it more difficult for early satage incubator > projects > to get students. That said, if there is genuine and healthy community > support of GSoC there are no real barriers." > > ### > > So - any project opportunities would need to be paired with one or more > mentors, which really should be developers who will work closely with a > student as they work on a project. So if any of the folks have projects > in mind, please feel free to bring them up. > > Best, > > jzb > -- > Joe Brockmeier > j...@zonker.net > Twitter: @jzb > http://www.dissociatedpress.net/
