Hi All... I think I could also help with this too... -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Louis Suárez-Potts [mailto:[email protected]] Gesendet: Dienstag, 3. Februar 2015 16:54 An: [email protected] Betreff: Re: Google Summer of Code 2015 is coming
Hi, > On 03-02-2015, at 03:55, jan i <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi > > Is this something we want to be involved in? My experience is that for > every 10 students 1 continues and 8 deliver real work. If no one leaps to this I would volunteer and act, obviously, less as a mentor than as an ombudsman. > > I would be happy to mentor a project, but I need help to define the > project and depending on the project expert help (peter) with code questions. We might be able to work jointly on this? My interest is that I know of some students here, in Toronto, who might very well be interested. I would not actually be able to competently mentor. > > I have some ideas: > - a new HTML parser to replace tidy with only the functionality we > need for core > - Firefox integration of editor and DocFormats > - Httpd module to view documents (call to DocFormats) > > thoughts ? > > rgds > jan i -louis > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: *Ulrich Stärk* <[email protected]> > Date: Monday, February 2, 2015 > Subject: Google Summer of Code 2015 is coming > To: [email protected] > > > Hello PMCs (incubator Mentors, please forward this email to your > podlings), > > 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 by no later than > 2015-02-13 19:00 UTC (applications from organizations close a week > later) > > 1. understand what it means to be a mentor [2]. > > 2. record your project ideas. > > Just create issues in JIRA, label them with gsoc2015, 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] <javascript:;> if you > need assistance. > > [4] contains some additional information (will be updated for 2015 shortly). > > 3. subscribe to [email protected] <javascript:;>; > restricted to potential mentors, meant to be used as a private list - > general discussions on the public [email protected] > <javascript:;> list 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 as a participating organization yet, > nevertheless you *have to* start recording your ideas now or we might > not get accepted. > > 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 year a success again! > > Cheers, > > 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/gsoc2015 > [2] http://community.apache.org/guide-to-being-a-mentor.html > [3] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas > [4] http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html > [5] http://s.apache.org/gsoclabels > > > > > -- > Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
