Hi, Google Summer Of Code 2018 is starting and we are going to confirm the Apache participation also this year. We could join the program as usual creating some improvements / tasks for ManifoldCF with a specific JIRA tag "gsoc2018".
Do you have any ideas to include in our proposals? I can just start the discussion with some ideas below: 1. Start our DevOps adoption: some ready-to-run ManifoldCF Docker images on different stack: MySQL, Postgres, etc... 2. Improve our Cloud services storage adoption: add support for Azure and Amazon storage for both Repository and Output Connectors 3. Continue our work on Content Migration: making sure that all the repository connectors correctly work with the existent output connectors 4. MongoDB Output Connector 5. A brand new website template: a porting based on Jekyll? (maybe is not so interesting for a student... but anyway we should do that :-P) Please feel free to add any comment about this. Thank you. Cheers, PJ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ulrich Stärk <[email protected]> Date: 2018-01-21 22:22 GMT+01:00 Subject: Google Summer of Code 2018 is coming To: [email protected] 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 please no later than 2017-01-30: 1. understand what it means to be a mentor [2]. 2. record your project ideas. Just create issues in JIRA, label them with gsoc2018, 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 2017 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/gsoc2018ideas [4] http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html [5] http://s.apache.org/gsoclabels -- Piergiorgio Lucidi Open Source Evangelist and Enterprise Information Management Specialist Mentor / PMC Member / Committer @ Apache Software Foundation Community Star / Wiki Gardener / Global Forum Moderator @ Alfresco Author and Technical Reviewer @ Packt Publishing Technical Advisory Group Member @ Microsoft Top Community Contributor @ Crafter Project Leader / Committer @ JBoss https://www.open4dev.com
