Would we be interested in participating ? This would be a good way to welcome additional contributors to the project.
Regards Srikanth Sundarrajan > From: [email protected] > Subject: Google Summer of Code 2016 is coming > To: [email protected] > Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 21:16:52 +0100 > > 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 as soon as > possible but by no later than 2016-02-19: > > 1. understand what it means to be a mentor [2]. > > 2. record your project ideas. > > Just create issues in JIRA, label them with gsoc2016, 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] if you need assistance. > > [4] contains some additional information (will be updated for 2016 shortly). > > 3. subscribe to [email protected]; restricted to potential > mentors, meant to be used as a > private list - general discussions on the public [email protected] > 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 will 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] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/ > [2] http://community.apache.org/guide-to-being-a-mentor.html > [3] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2016ideas > [4] http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html > [5] http://s.apache.org/gsoclabels >
