Folks One of your key goals during incubation should be to try and grow the community and attract new contributors. One way to do this is to participate in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) which Apache has been accepted as a mentoring organisation for most years.
GSoC is an opportunity to introduce students to open source development and hopefully turn them into long term contributors. If there are things that you think a student could reasonably attempt in the GSoC timeframe and you have folks in the existing community willing to act as mentors then please consider adding JIRA issues and labelling them with the gsoc2015 label. (I note you guys haven't got a JIRA project entry yet so would need to get Infra to set that up for you) Please see forwarded email below for more information, Rob On 02/02/2015 14:44, "Ulrich Stärk" <[email protected]> wrote: >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 by no later than >2015-02-13 19:00 UTC (applications from organizations close a week later) > >1. understand what it means to be a mentor [2]. > >2. record your project ideas. > >Just create issues in JIRA, label them with gsoc2015, 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, ...) > >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 2015 >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 might 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 > >[1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015 >[2] http://community.apache.org/guide-to-being-a-mentor.html >[3] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas >[4] http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html >
