Hello Fineractors, GSOC is now upon us!
All committers interested in mentoring students on projects either on Fineract or Fineract-CN are requested to respond to this thread before 2019-01-31 19:00 UTC. You would also need to carry out the steps mentioned in the trailing mail (including subscribing to ment...@community.apache.org) before the deadline. Committers who have already expressed interest in mentoring for the Mifos initiative are also requested to do the same at Fineract. This ensures that Fineract community can accommodate additional students should it so happen that the Mifos initiative is not selected as a mentoring organization for GSOC 2019. The list of issues tagged for GSOC of past years can be found on Jira at https://bit.ly/2UvL917. Please add the tag "gsoc2019" for any existing / new issue you would like to mentor for this years GSOC Regards, Vishwas Begin forwarded message: *From: *Ulrich Stärk <u...@apache.org> *Subject: **Google Summer of Code 2019 is coming* *Date: *January 29, 2019 at 4:24:37 AM PST *To: *undisclosed-recipients: ; *Reply-To: *priv...@fineract.apache.org *Reply-To: *ment...@community.apache.org 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 2019-01-31 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 gsoc2019, 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, ...). Please use the COMDEV JIRA project for recording your ideas if your project doesn't use JIRA (e.g. httpd, ooo). Contact d...@community.apache.org if you need assistance. [4] contains some additional information (will be updated for 2019 shortly). 3. subscribe to ment...@community.apache.org; restricted to potential mentors, meant to be used as a private list - general discussions on the public d...@community.apache.org 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! P.S.: 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] https://s.apache.org/gsoc2019ideas [4] http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html
