Hi everyone --I've drafted up an announcement that I can send out by 12 Noon ET today, if not sooner.
Please review the draft below and forward any corrections/additions no later than 11.15AM ET. Thanks for this, Sally ...also, we need to update http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html :^) = = = The Apache Software Foundation Community Development Project Welcomes Student Proposals for Google Summer of Code 2013 Hundreds of students mentored in “The Apache Way” of Open Source community leadership Forest Hill, MD –9 April 2013– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)'s Community Development (ComDev) project today announced its acceptance into the Google Summer of Code (GsoC) as a mentoring organization for the eighth consecutive year. The ComDev team helps newcomers learn about the ASF's projects, governance, and activities, and guides them in becoming part of the meritocratic, all-volunteer Apache community. Established in 2005, the Google Summer of Code offers student developers from around the word stipends to write code for various Open Source software projects over a three month period. The ASF has actively participated in GSoC since the program's inception, mentoring 30-45 students each year, and providing exposure to real-world software and community development “The Apache Way”. Countless GSoC students mentored by the Apache community continue to be long-term code committers on a variety of Apache projects. Some active program participants have even been elected as members of the ASF. This year, dozens of Apache projects have committed to mentoring GSoC students. They include Accumulo, Airavata, Axiom, Bloodhound, CloudStack, CouchDB, Crunch, Giraph, Gora, Hama, Hive, Isis, Jena, Lenya, Lucene, Mahout, ManifoldCF, Mesos, Nutch, ODE, OpenMeetings, OpenOffice, Pig, Rat, SIS, Sling, Solr, Stanbol, Tika, VXQuery, Wookie, XalanJ, and XercesJ. The ComDev team invite GSoC students to propose application ideas directly with all Apache project(s) of interest no later than Sunday, 21 April 2013. The ASF's more than 100 Top-Level Projects and nearly three dozen initiatives in the Apache Incubator are listed at http://www.apache.org/ and http://incubator.apache.org/ respectively. For more information on Apache Community Development and to get involved with Apache projects for GSoC, visit http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html Details on the Google Summer of Code is available at http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013 About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees nearly one hundred fifty leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server — the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way", more than 400 individual Members and 3,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(3)(c) not-for-profit charity, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including AMD, Basis Technology, Citrix, Cloudera, Facebook, Go Daddy, Google, HP, Hortonworks, Huawei, IBM, InMotion Hosting, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, PSW Group, SpringSource/VMware, WANdisco, and Yahoo!. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/ or follow @TheASF on Twitter. "Apache", "Accumulo", "Apache Accumulo", "Airavata", "Apache Airavata", "Axiom", "Apache Axiom", "Bloodhound", "Apache Bloodhound", "CloudStack", "Apache CloudStack", "CouchDB", "Apache CouchDB", "Crunch", "Apache Crunch", "Giraph", "Apache Giraph", "Gora", "Apache Gora", "Hama", "Apache Hama", "Hive", "Apache Hive", "Isis", "Apache Isis", "Jena", "Apache Jena", "Lenya", "Apache Lenya", "Lucene", "Apache Lucene", "Mahout", "Apache Mahout", "ManifoldCF", "Apache ManifoldCF", "Mesos", "Apache Mesos", "Nutch", "Apache Nutch", "ODE", "Apache ODE", "OpenMeetings", "Apache OpenMeetings", "OpenOffice", "Apache OpenOffice", "Pig", "Apache Pig", "Rat", "Apache Rat", "SIS", "Apache SIS", "Sling", "Apache Sling", "Solr", "Apache Solr", "Stanbol", "Apache Stanbol", "Tika", "Apache Tika", "VXQuery", "Apache VXQuery", "Wookie", "Apache Wookie", "XalanJ", "Apache XalanJ", "XercesJ", "Apache XercesJ", and "ApacheCon" are registered trademarks or trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation in the United States and/or other countries. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. # # # Contact: Sally Khudairi Vice President The Apache Software Foundation pr...@apache.org +1 617 921 8656 >________________________________ > From: Sally Khudairi <sallykhuda...@yahoo.com> >To: Ulrich Stärk <u...@spielviel.de>; "dev@community.apache.org" ><dev@community.apache.org> >Cc: "pr...@apache.org" <pr...@apache.org> >Sent: Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 8:42 >Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of >Code 2013 > > >Perfect. Thank you, Uli! > > > > >>________________________________ >> From: Ulrich Stärk <u...@spielviel.de> >>To: dev@community.apache.org >>Cc: Sally Khudairi <s...@apache.org>; "pr...@apache.org" <pr...@apache.org> >>Sent: Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 8:36 >>Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of >>Code 2013 >> >>Here's your list: >> >>Accumulo, Airavata, Axiom, Bloodhound, CloudStack, Lenya, OpenOffice, >>ManifoldCF, CouchDB, Crunch, >>Giraph, Gora, Hama, Hive, Isis, Jena, Lucene, Mahout, Mesos, Nutch, Ode, >>Openmeetings, Pig, Rat, >>SIS, Sling, Solr, Stanbol, Tika, VXQuery, Wookie, XalanJ, XercesJ >> >>It isn't exclusive, these are simply the projects that have submitted project >>ideas. Every student >>is free to approach any project and propose an idea (which is also highly >>encouraged). >> >>Cheers, >> >>Uli >> >>On 09.04.2013 14:20, Ulrich Stärk wrote: >>> Any project can be involved. The ones listed at [4] have explicitly >>> submitted ideas for students but >>> that doesn't mean students can't approach projects not mentioned there. >>> I'll compile a list from [4] >>> for you. >>> >>> Uli >>> >>> On 09.04.2013 14:16, Sally Khudairi wrote: >>>> One more thing: do we have a list of Apache projects that will be involved >>>> here? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Sally >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> *From:* Ulrich Stärk <u...@spielviel.de> >>>> *To:* "pr...@apache.org" <pr...@apache.org>; Sally Khudairi >>>><s...@apache.org> >>>> *Cc:* "dev@community.apache.org" <dev@community.apache.org> >>>> *Sent:* Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 8:11 >>>> *Subject:* ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer >>>>of Code 2013 >>>> >>>> Recycling last years email on the topic. All dates and links updated. >>>>It would be cool if we could >>>> get this out asap. Is there anything else you need? >>>> >>>> Uli >>>> >>>> -------- Original Message -------- >>>> Subject: Apache Software Foundation accepted as a mentoring >>>>organization for Google Summer of >>>> Code 2012 >>>> Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:21:40 +0100 >>>> From: Ulrich Stärk <u...@spielviel.de <mailto:u...@spielviel.de>> >>>> To: pr...@apache.org <mailto:pr...@apache.org> >>>> CC: dev@community.apache.org <mailto:dev@community.apache.org> >>>> >>>> Hey Sally & Co., >>>> >>>> this year we won't forget to provide you with some infos on our GSoC >>>>endeavours. Yesterday, we have >>>> been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code >>>>2013 [1],[2]. This means that >>>> over the summer, our committers will mentor students that are >>>>sponsored by Google and will be >>>> working on our projects. The program helps us not only to get some >>>>code written but also to >>>> introduce students into open source development and hopefully recruit >>>>some new long-term committers. >>>> More information on the program is available at [3]. Students are now >>>>encouraged to discuss ideas >>>> with the respective projects and begin drafting proposals. An >>>>extensive list of already existing >>>> project ideas is available at [4]. The actual application phase is >>>>from April 24 until May 3, coding >>>> will take place from June 17 to September 23. See [5] for the detailed >>>>timeline. >>>> >>>> Can you please run any press release past us (dev@community.apache.org >>>> <mailto:dev@community.apache.org>) before publishing? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> Uli >>>> >>>> [1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013 >>>> [2] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/apache >>>> [3] >>>>http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2013/help_page >>>> [4] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2013ideas >>>> [5] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2013 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >> >> >> > >
