As someone who did GSoC back in University I think this could be a good idea if there is enough interest from the PMC & I'd be willing the help mentor if that is a bottleneck.
On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 12:42 PM, Jacek Laskowski <ja...@japila.pl> wrote: > Hi, > > Is this something Spark considering? Would be nice to mark issues as > GSoC in JIRA and solicit feedback. What do you think? > > Pozdrawiam, > Jacek Laskowski > ---- > https://medium.com/@jaceklaskowski/ > Mastering Apache Spark 2.0 https://bit.ly/mastering-apache-spark > Follow me at https://twitter.com/jaceklaskowski > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Ulrich Stärk <u...@apache.org> > Date: Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 8:50 PM > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org > > -- Cell : 425-233-8271 Twitter: https://twitter.com/holdenkarau
