On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM Bryan Tiang <bryantian...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Daan, > > Are there guidelines on what could be suggested for GSoC? > yes, basically any coding issue. > Do the scopes have to be small? Or does the size of the scope not matter? > yes it does: see https://community.apache.org/gsoc/guide-to-being-a-mentor.html#important-steps there are three scopes: 1. 350 hrs 2. 175 hrs 3. 90 hrs > Also, do they have to be new ideas? I think there are some open feature > requests already in Github which could be brought over? > no, they do not have to be new. We added three older issues and a new one. Select the label gsoc. Any others are welcome. > > Regards, > Bryan > On 17 Feb 2025 at 9:01 PM +0800, Daan Hoogland <d...@apache.org>, wrote: > > Not to exclude anybody: (note that for the following you have to be a > > committer to be eligible as mentor) > > > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > > From: Daan Hoogland <d...@apache.org> > > Date: Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM > > Subject: GSoC ideas requested (urgently) > > To: dev <dev@cloudstack.apache.org> > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2025 has already been announced and the > > timeline is available on this link: > > https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline. > > > > > > Obviously the submission of organisations deadline has already been > > past, but Apache is in the mix. To increase our chances as an > > organisation it would help if we have as many ideas for projects as > > possible (and potential mentors). > > > > To submit your idea please create a GitHub issue at the official ACS > > repository with label “gsoc25” (such as: > > > https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Agsoc2025 > ), > > we’ll later review and work with the ASF guys to make this list > > available for applications. You will also need to register as a > > mentor. To become a mentor you don’t need to be committer or PMC, just > > to have an idea and the will to support and guide a contributor > > developing it. Registering is also easy, please send an email to > > private@ and ask to be recognized as such. > > > > You can find the general information of the program on: > > https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/ > > Here is the howto for being a mentor: > > https://community.apache.org/gsoc/guide-to-being-a-mentor.html > > more generic info: https://community.apache.org/gsoc/ > > Please directly add your project idea, and of course if you have > > questions I’ll be available to help. > > > > regards, > > > > Daan > -- Daan
