This is a great initiative. I've got experience in mentoring several GSoC projects in the past, and I'd love to volunteer.
PS: Should we reply to this email with issues? And, is the title of the issue and a small description is enough? Regards, Grainier Perera. On Mon, 18 Jan 2021 at 16:14, Dominik Riemer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > > > as in the last few years, the ASF will participate as a mentor organization > in the Google Summer of Code 2021 (GSoC). More information can be found at > [1, 2]. > > ASF projects can provide ideas for student projects, for which accepted > students can apply for. I think this can be a very good opportunity to > broaden our community and to attract new contributors. > > > > The process is as follows: > > 1. we can now collect issues that are suitable for GSoC participants > on > the mailing list > 2. then need to find one mentor from our community for each issue, > and > 3. can afterwards add them to Jira with a gsoc21 label. > > > > So what do you think? What are good features that could be implemented by > GSoC students? Who would be willing to volunteer as a Mentor? > > For instance, I think Lukas' recent proposal of having more visualizations > from the ECharts library would make for a very good proposal (and I'd be > willing to mentor this project). > > > > Dominik > > > > [1] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/ > > [2] https://community.apache.org/gsoc.html > > > > > > > >
