It would be great to participate. @All, Please feel to create a jira for your ideas and mark them as suggested.
I volunteer to be a mentor. more volunteers please? Thanks On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 10:20 AM, Srikanth Sundarrajan <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > >
