On Friday 29 February 2008 06:37 am, Bert Wesarg wrote: > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Joachim Lous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Bert Wesarg ---< good stuff snipped >---
So it sounds like there is some interest on the part of the nedit "organization", so I will volunteer to dig into the requirements for a mentoring organization and move towards applying as a mentoring organization which generally must be done between March 3 and March 12, 2008. It's good that we have at least one person who is willing to mentor, at least for one specific project. I was hoping that someone who qualified as a student participant might be lurking on this list and might have piped up--you still can ;-) I have skimmed thru the FAQ (http://code.google.com/soc/2008/faqs.html) and will do so again. I've noted a few requirements below, just to mention some of the things we have to make sure of: * Some persons (and mentoring organizations) are not eligible to participate: "Google employees, interns, contractors, family members, or citizens of Iran, Syria, Cuba, Sudan, North Korea and Mynamar (Burma), with whom we are prohibited by U.S. law from engaging in commerce, are ineligible to participate." * There will be some (US) tax related paperwork that has to be submitted--iiuc, generally either properly identifying a US taxpayer or essentially certifying that a person or organization is not subject to US taxes. Also, some of the ideas I had in mind will probably not be acceptable: * there is a specific requirement that the project not be a documentation project but instead be a coding project (we can, of course, require proper documentation of code submitted as a coding project) * I'm not as certain, but my suggestion of a design for folding with proof of concept code probably does not qualify on the same basis (but I'd be tempted to submit the idea anyway, depending on certain other things, and let them tell me/us that it doesn't qualify). We will need available mentors for any project idea we accept (at least a primary and a backup) and we need a project administrator and a backup. Oh, and, iiuc, "we" can go into this either as an (informal) organization (i.e., a group--and we don't have to be legally incorporated or anything like that), or (iiuc), one of us as an individual can be a sponsoring "organization". (That person would have to be the administrator and backup administrator--I think (but am not sure) others could serve as the primary and backup mentors.) My primary interest in trying to get some SOC help for nedit is to move folding forward. To support that, I think "we" need to work towards at least a set of criteria for folding and maybe even a design (I would like to work toward that end)--I'm afraid that a project to design and implement folding will be too much for a single SOC participant/project (and group projects are not allowed). I wish I had started on this effort sooner--if this doesn't work out for this year, perhaps we can get something going for SOC 2009 (which I will assume will exist). I do have some off-line obligations that will keep me quite busy for the next two months, but if no one else wants to do things like volunteer to be the administrator or fill out the mentoring organization application, I will work toward those ends. I will also (again, unless else someone steps forward) try to spark some discussion on the list toward establishing criteria and/or a design for folding. So: * does anybody want to volunteer to fill out the necessary application for us to be a mentoring organization? * does anybody want to volunteer to be an administrator or backup administrator? * other volunteers for mentors? * if anybody in this group is not eligible because they are anything like: "Google employees, interns, contractors, family members, or citizens of Iran, Syria, Cuba, Sudan, North Korea and Mynamar (Burma), with whom we are prohibited by U.S. law from engaging in commerce, are ineligible to participate." please either make that known to me publicly (sp?) or privately, or refrain from volunteering as either a mentor or adminstrator. I don't think I would qualify (or put myself forward) as a mentor for anything, but I would be interested in sort of being a shadow mentor--possibly, for instance, being copied on emails that went back and forth between the mentor(s) and student participant in hopes of learning something, especially if the (or one of the) SOC project(s) was folding related. Comments, criticisms, suggestions? Randy Kramer -- NEdit Develop mailing list - [email protected] http://www.nedit.org/mailman/listinfo/develop
