Hello Lewis, I am keen on participating in GSOC 2017. I have started exploring nutch recently and would be glad to contribute to it in the future. Have a great weekend.
Thanks, Omkar. On 4 February 2017 at 01:29, lewis john mcgibbney <lewi...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Folks, > Please see above. If anyone is interested in participating in or mentoring > a GSoC project then please respond to this thread. Usually, from there you > can open a Jira ticket in which ever project it is you are interested and > we take it from there. > Have a great weekend. > Lewis > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Ulrich Stärk <u...@apache.org> > Date: Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 11:50 AM > Subject: Google Summer of Code 2017 is coming > To: ment...@community.apache.org > > > 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 2017-02-09: > > 1. understand what it means to be a mentor [2]. > > 2. record your project ideas. > > Just create issues in JIRA, label them with gsoc2017, 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 d...@community.apache.org if you need assistance. > > [4] contains some additional information (will be updated for 2017 > shortly). > > 3. subscribe to ment...@community.apache.org; restricted to potential > mentors, meant to be used as a > private list - general discussions on the public d...@community.apache.org > 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/gsoc2017ideas > [4] http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html > [5] http://s.apache.org/gsoclabels > > > > > -- > http://home.apache.org/~lewismc/ > @hectorMcSpector > http://www.linkedin.com/in/lmcgibbney >
