Hang on-- now that I read the thread more carefully, it looks like the application will be coming from ASF as a whole. But I still encourage interested Jena-folks to volunteer.
--- A. Soroka The University of Virginia Library > On Oct 31, 2016, at 9:37 AM, A. Soroka <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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] >> >
