On 21 Mar 2009, at 13:43, Jan Lehnardt wrote:
On 5 Mar 2009, at 13:14, Jan Lehnardt wrote:
A little update.
On 3 Mar 2009, at 13:06, Jan Lehnardt wrote:
last year, we missed the Google Summer of Code* application
deadline by hours (my fault). This year, applications run on
March 9th-13th.
The ASF is already taking part and we can submit idea lists for
CouchDB under their umbrella.
See http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCode2009 for more
information.
We should have a list of ideas ready by March 23rd. I'll keep this
thread open for another while and then start collecting ideas that
we can vote on for Students to apply for.
I added our wiki page to
http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCode2008#preview
Smart move, I now added our proposals to
http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCode2009 (correct year)
Cheers
Jan
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Jan
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Jan
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*http://code.google.com/soc/
GSoC provides an excellent opportunity for open source projects
to get students involved with the project and have larger areas of
functionality covered.
What is needed from our end (roughly, see the rest of the GSoC
FaQ*** for more info)?
- A single person as an administrative contact. I volunteer for this
position if nobody else is eager to take it.
- A "list of ideas"** that includes a number of sub-projects that
students
can apply for when working on CouchDB. This is where you come
in! :) What feature of CouchDB would you like a student to work on
during the summer?
- A vote on which student-proposals to accept.
- Once we have one or more students with an idea each, we'll need a
mentor for each sub-project.
** From the GSoC FaQ***:
An "Ideas" list should be a list of suggested student projects.
This list is meant to introduce contributors to your project's
needs and to provide inspiration to would-be student applicants.
It is useful to classify each idea as specifically as possible,
e.g. "must know Python" or "easier project; good for a student
with more limited experience with C++." If your organization plans
to provide an application template, you should include it on your
Ideas list.
Keep in mind that your Ideas list should be a starting point for
student applications; we've heard from past mentoring organization
participants that some of their best student projects are those
that greatly expanded on a proposed idea or were blue-sky
proposals not mentioned on the Ideas list at all.
*** http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2009/faqs.html
