Sure, that sounds great! ... are you looking for something like "co-creator of the GSoC program, while working at Google in 2005" ?? That's a bit of a mouthful, but is that the direction you're thinking?
And please go ahead an draft up a quote. I'm not quite sure the angle you're looking at, so best if you go first :-) Thx, -g On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 5:13 PM, Sally Khudairi <s...@apache.org> wrote: > Greg, > > I'd like to put a placeholder for a quote for you in the announcement as > well (the lead quote will be coming from Uli). > > How would you like to have your attribution described in relation to GSoC? > "ASF Vice Chairman and @@WHATEXACTLY" > > Of course, I'll be happy to get a quote directly from you (vs. having to > de-Sally-fy my proposed blurb) :-) > > If you don't want to be quoted, that's OK; I can use Ross as backup. > > Thanks so much, > > Sally > > ________________________________ > From: Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> > To: Sally Khudairi <s...@apache.org> > Cc: Ulrich Stärk <u...@spielviel.de>; "pr...@apache.org" <pr...@apache.org>; > "dev@community.apache.org" <dev@community.apache.org> > Sent: Friday, 13 March 2015, 17:22 > Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of > Code 2015 > > > > The very first year was 2005. Thus, 2015 would be the 11th GSoC. > > As one of the two people to launch/create GSoC, you can call me > authoritative on the dates :-P > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Sally Khudairi <s...@apache.org> wrote: > > Whaaaaat? > > > >Really? I had it in the "Did You Know?" section last week as 10th also. > > > > > >AND, more importantly, if my calculations are off, then in > > > >https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/date/20141119 > > > > > >the 2013 entry as "eighth consecutive year" is wrong too. > > > >Who has the correct count? It really is 11? Not that I don't trust you, I > now am feeling quite lost. > > > >Cheers, > >Sally > > > >________________________________ > >From: Ulrich Stärk <u...@spielviel.de> > >To: "pr...@apache.org" <pr...@apache.org> > >Cc: dev@community.apache.org; Sally Khudairi <s...@apache.org> > >Sent: Friday, 13 March 2015, 17:09 > > > >Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer > of Code 2015 > > > > > >Hey Sally, > > > >I just read the announcement and it says "The ASF has been accepted as a > Google Summer of Code > >mentoring organization for the 10th consecutive year". > > > >If I'm not mistaken it's the 11th year ;) > > > >Cheers, > > > >Uli > > > > > > > > > >On 2015-03-12 18:42, Sally Khudairi wrote: > >> Thanks, Uli. > >> I did post about it in our weekly news round-up. > >> Happy to work with you on a press release. Who is the ASF lead on GSoC. > You? Who from ComDev will be at ApacheCon? Are you planning to do something > special there? > >> Cheers,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: Thursday, 12 March 2015, 13:31 > >> Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google > Summer of Code 2015 > >> > >> And again recycling this. I think we missed 2014 so I want to make sure > to get an announcement out > >> this year. > >> > >> Cheers, > >> > >> Uli > >> > >> On 2013-04-09 14:11, Ulrich Stärk wrote: > >>> 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> > >>> To: pr...@apache.org > >>> CC: 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 > 2015 [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 March 16 until March 27, coding > >>> will take place from May 25 to August 21. See [5] for the detailed > timeline. > >>> > >>> Can you please run any press release past us (dev@community.apache.org) > before publishing? > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> > >>> Uli > >>> > >>> [1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015 > >>> [2] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/apache > >>> [3] > http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2015/help_page > >>> [4] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas > >>> [5] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2015 > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > >
