Hi All, Is anyone interested in participating this year?
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 7:27 AM, <[email protected]>wrote: > > Hello PMCs, > > Google Summer of Code [1] is the ideal opportunity for you to attract new > contributors to your projects. > > The ASF will apply as a participating organization meaning individual > projects don't have to apply > separately. > > If you want to participate with your project you NOW need to > > - understand what it means to be a mentor [2]. > > - record your project ideas. Just create issues in JIRA, label them with > gsoc2013, and they will > show up at [3]. Please be as specific as possible when describing your > idea. Include the programming > language, the tools and skills required, but try not to scare potential > students away. They are > supposed to learn what's required before the program starts. Use labels, > e.g. for the programming > language (java, c, c++, erlang, python, brainfuck, ...) or technology area > (cloud, xml, web, foo, > bar, ...) and record them at [5]. Please use the COMDEV JIRA project for > recording your ideas if > your project doesn't use JIRA (e.g. httpd, ooo). Contact > [email protected] if you need > assistance. > > - subscribe to [email protected] (restricted to potential mentors, > meant to be used as a > private list - general discussions on the public [email protected] > as much as possible > please). Use a recognized address when subscribing (@apache.org or one of > your alias addresses on > record). > > Note that the ASF isn't accepted yet, nevertheless you *really* should > start recording your ideas now. > > Over the years we were able to complete hundreds of projects successfully. > Some of our prior > students are active contributors now! Let's make this a success again this > year! > > > Uli > > P.S.: Except for the private parts (label spreadsheet mostly), this email > is free to be shared > publicly if you want to. > > [1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013 > [2] http://community.apache.org/guide-to-being-a-mentor.html > [3] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2013ideas > [4] http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html > [5] http://s.apache.org/gsoclabels > > > > -- *Lewis*
