The application process for Google Summer of Code 2008 - (http://code.google.com/soc/2008/) - has started. For those who don't know, this is a Google-sponsored project that pays student developers to work on Open Source projects. The deadline for mentor organization applications is Wednesday March 12th.
Enlightened Perl (http://www.enlightenedperl.org/) has chosen to apply as a mentoring organisation for GSoC, working in co-operation with the Perl Foundation. Enlightened Perl's aims are to promote the use of Perl as a high-level, enterprise-grade solution, and to collect and distribute funding and support for modules and applications that further such a use of Perl. It currently has the support of the development leaders for Catalyst, Jifty, DBIx::Class, RT, svk and Moose, and potentially many more. The Enlightened Perl coordinator for GSoC2008 is Mike Whitaker (IRC: Penfold on irc.perl.org, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]). We need: * suggestions for projects: please add these to the Enlightened Perl section on http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc2008_projects. Not all students will want to take on a suggested project - some will propose a project of their own (and frequently have a lot of success doing so). The GSoC schedule allocates roughly 2 1/2 months of development time to individual projects. * volunteers for people to act as mentors (either for a specific project or in general). This will require a certain time commitment - you will be expected to be in touch with both your student and the Enlightened Perl coordinator for a couple of short Agile-style 'standup' meetings every working day. If you're willing, please add yourself to http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc2008_mentors. If you want more information, feel free to ask on IRC (#soc or #epo on irc.perl.org) and/or check the GSoC and EP websites. If you wonder why this e-mail involves no swearing or sarcasm, it's because I was given a template. If you find that upsetting, please ask stupid questions and I'll do my best to oblige :) -- Matt S Trout Need help with your Catalyst or DBIx::Class project? Technical Director http://www.shadowcat.co.uk/catalyst/ Shadowcat Systems Ltd. Want a managed development or deployment platform? http://chainsawblues.vox.com/ http://www.shadowcat.co.uk/servers/ _______________________________________________ List: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dbix-class IRC: irc.perl.org#dbix-class SVN: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/repos/bast/DBIx-Class/ Searchable Archive: http://www.grokbase.com/group/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
