This is a thread from Apache's community-dev list, so apologies to anyone who has already seen it, but it seems to me that Jena could summon up some tasks that would be appropriate for this program:
https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/ I would be happy to mentor. I've had good experiences mentoring in Google's Summer of Code for other projects. If there are no objections and I can get one other volunteer I can try to submit an application. --- A. Soroka The University of Virginia Library > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Shane Curcuru <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: ASF for Google Code-In > Date: October 31, 2016 at 8:51:11 AM EDT > To: [email protected] > Reply-To: [email protected] > > Sounds awesome. I just hope enough reliable mentors volunteer with > appropriately sized tasks - and an ability to provide feedback. This > sounds like it results in lots of little, possibly disconnected > newcomers, rather than a small handful of focused college students. > > But I love the emphasis on non-coding tasks as well; that helps everyone. > > Will you use the same email(s) as the GSoC admins, or separate? > > - Shane > > Mark Thomas wrote on 10/31/16 4:24 AM: >> On 30/10/2016 23:22, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: >>> Hi! >>> >>> a project I mentor got interested in: >>> https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/ >>> >>> Has there been any attempts to have ASF >>> as a mentoring organization there? >> >> I'm not aware of any and I'm on most (all?) lists where I would expect >> it to have been discussed. >> >>> The current list of orgs is pretty eclectic: >>> https://codein.withgoogle.com/archive/2015/organization/ >>> but given that folks like Ubuntu are on the list >>> I don't see why ASF shouldn't be. >> >> Me neither. I don't see anything blocking you taking this further. The >> deadline for applying is 3rd Nov so you'll need to be quick. >> >> Mark >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >
