On 2/11/13 8:34 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > Google announced the timeline for the 2013 program today: > > http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2013 > > The ASF has applied as a mentoring organization in the past. I assume > we will again this year. If so there would be a limited number of > slots for Apache, which mentors (volunteers that lead the GSoC > project) in individual projects to fill. > > My recommendation is to *not* wait for an ASF announcement calling for > proposals, but to start thinking about possible projects now. My > guess is we'll need to have proposals ready before April. So this > this is coming sooner than you think. > > I mentored a student in the ODF Toolkit project last summer, so feel > free to ask me what is involved. >
yes, probably a good ideato start early. I am interested to mentor a Eclipse plugin project similar to the NetBeans plugin. Juergen