Hi Richard. I love the idea of having a replacement GUI project for this, sounds like a very good opportunity for everyone to learn a new thing. I'll try to draft a proposal this week.
Best. On Tue, 23 Jan 2018 at 10:45 Richard Downer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Apache is gearing up for Google Summer of Code 2018. All Apache projects > have been invited to submit their ideas for GSoC projects. > > For those not familiar with GSoC, the idea is during that students will use > their summer break to embark on a 3-month programming project with an open > source organisation. > > If we want to take part then we simply need to come up with some suitable > ideas and open a JIRA ticket with suitable labels. We'll also need mentors > to work with our students - mentors will need to keep a continuous dialog > with their student and expect to consume 3-5 hours a week in that role. > > **Deadline for this is 30th January - Tuesday next week** > > Any ideas for GSoC projects - projects that can be completed in 3 months by > a student? > > Our GUI is somewhat dated - a replacement GUI project? > > A project to add support for updating a blueprint of a running application? > > Anything else? > > > A bit more information from Ulrich Stärk who is running the Apache side of > GSoC: > > Google Summer of Code [1] is a program sponsored by Google allowing > students to spend their summer working on open source software. Students > will receive stipends for developing open source software full-time for > three months. Projects will provide mentoring and project ideas, and in > return have the chance to get new code developed and - most importantly - > to identify and bring in new committers. > > 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 we ask you to do the following > things as soon as > possible but please no later than 2017-01-30: > > 1. understand what it means to be a mentor [2]. > > 2. record your project ideas. > > > [1] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/ > [2] http://community.apache.org/guide-to-being-a-mentor.html > -- Thomas Bouron • Senior Software Engineer @ Cloudsoft Corporation • https://cloudsoft.io/ Github: https://github.com/tbouron Twitter: https://twitter.com/eltibouron
