Hi,
to speed up our software development for this year I have planned to
participate at this years Google Sommer of Code, short GSoC.
In short GSoC means that Goolge is paying students to work on open
source projects.
GSoC is a mentoring program for student open source developers funded by
Google.
Mentoring organisations (such as Wikimedia Foundation or openZIM) can
apply with specific tasks they want to be done by some developer. If
approved these tasks will be advertised by Google, so students can apply
for them to take over a job. The mentoring organisations are then
obliged to help the student to get the job done and to review the
quality and performance.
Depending on the reviews Google is paying up to 5.500 USD to the student.
http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2010/faqs
I have prepared two ideas to apply for GSoC this year:
http://openzim.org/Google_Sommer_of_Code_2010
The application timeframe is very short - only from March 8th to 12th.
So we need to sort this out quick and remember that I will also need
some time to prepare all the papers.
The most important decisions to make are:
* which ideas we want to apply with
* who will do the mentoring
The mentoring is especially important. Only if the mentor is available
and competent a student will be able to do his task and get the money
(and we get the code / our idea implemented).
From a technical point of view I think that Tommi has to be the mentor.
Maybe also Mirko can enabled to do this task, but also then Tommi must
be available for technical questions.
Please answer quickly, otherwise the deadline is over and we loose this
great opportunity for progress.
/Manuel
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Regards
Manuel Schneider
Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens
Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge
www.wikimedia.ch
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