Thanks Randy, On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 12:39 AM, Randy Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found the application at http://code.google.com/soc/2008/org_signup.html. > I've copied it here with my first attempt at filling it in. > > Notes: > > 1. We can't edit the application after starting it, so I want to try to get > it > right the first time. We can re-submit up to five times if we do have to > correct something. > > 2. Google will treat the person who fills out the application as the > adminstrator, so if someone else wants to or is willing to be the > adminstrator, speak up. (I have no great desire to be the administrator, in > fact, I'm continuing to worry that we may be rushing into this too late for > this year, but, I'm not giving up yet.) To be the administrator, you must > have a Google id--I presume that my gmail id will do the job. > > 3. The application must be complete by sometime (maybe noon, some timezone) > on > March 12. > > The questions and my attempts at answers--some of my answers are pretty lame, > so feel free to make or suggest changes: > > <quote plus first draft answers> > Please note that you will be considered the administrator/main contact for > this organization. > > Also note that all fields are required unless otherwise indicated. > > You have 5 Organization Application(s) left. > > About Your Organization ^ back to top > > 1. What is your Organization's Name? > > NEdit > > 2. What is your Organization's Homepage? > > http://nedit.org > > 3. Describe your organization. > > The organization is the informal association of NEdit developers (not a > formal / legal organization). > > 4. Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2008? What do > you hope to gain by participating? > > We hope to take advantage of the GSoC to: > * get programming done to advance NEdit > * interest new developers in NEdit > > 5. Did your organization participate in previous GSoC years? If so, please > summarize your involvement and the successes and failures of your student > projects. (optional) > > No. > > 6. If your organization has not previously participated in GSoC, have you > applied in the past? If so, for what year(s)? (optional) > > No. > > 7. What license does your project use? > > The GPL, version 2 or later, with a special exception for linking to Motif or > Open Motif libraries. From http://www.nedit.org/news.php#20040806: > > " > This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under > the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software > Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later > version. > > In addition, as a special exception to the GNU GPL, the copyright holders > give > permission to link the code of this program with the Motif and Open Motif > libraries (or with modified versions of these that use the same license), and > distribute linked combinations including the two. You must obey the GNU > General Public License in all respects for all of the code used other than > linking with Motif/Open Motif. If you modify this file, you may extend this > exception to your version of the file, but you are not obligated to do so. If > you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version. > " > > 8. URL for your ideas page > > We don't have one yet. I can volunteer one on wikilearn (at twiki.org), but > something on nedit.org would be better--I would favor a wiki, but I should > check and see if the FAQ comments on that in any way. > > 9. What is the main development mailing list for your organization? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] at http://www.nedit.org/mailman/listinfo/develop > or via email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following in the body: > subscribe [password] [digest|nodigest] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 10. Where is the main IRC channel for your organization? > > AFAICT, we don't have one--I Googled [site:nedit.org irc] and found nothing > promising. > > 11. Does your organization have an application template you would like to > see students use? If so, please provide it now. (optional) > > Optional--if anyone has a recommendation here, speak up. > > 12. Who will be your backup organization administrator? Please enter their > Google Account address. We will email them to confirm, your organization will > not become active until they respond. (optional) > > anyone? > > About Your Mentors ^ back to top > > 1. What criteria did you use to select these individuals as mentors? Please > be as specific as possible. > > Volunteers who participate on the development list and have a record of > making > patches and commits to the code. (I'm anticipating a little.) > > 2. Who will your mentors be? Please enter their Google Account address > separated by commas. If your organization is accepted we will email each > mentor to invite them to take part. (optional) > > Bert Wesarg, If they just need my email, here it is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > About The Program ^ back to top > > 1. What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students? > > As recommended by the Google FAQ (??), we will ask them for some sort of > report every two weeks. If we don't hear from them, we will make two > followup attempts at contacting them. If we can't reach them, but they later > get in touch again, we will consider the situation on a case-by-case basis. > > 2. What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors? > > So far we have only one volunteer mentor. In any case, if there is a backup, > the backup would take over. (All email correspondence between the student > and mentor would include the backup mentor and be archived somewhere for at > least the duration of the 2008 GSoC.) If both the mentor and the backup > mentor become unavailable, and no other volunteer is available, the > administrator or backup administrator would step in and attempt to mentor, > including by asking questions of the develop mailing list at large. > > 3. What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your > project's community before, during and after the program? > > The first step will be to attempt to accept only students who express an > interest in NEdit that seems genuine. We will require that he join both the > develop and discuss mail lists and introduce himself on those mail lists at > least at the time of his application. > > We would like him to communicate with his mentor on the develop mail list, > although we recognize he may be reluctant to do at first. We won't force > him, but we know he will be welcomed and hope he feels welcome there. > > 4. What will you do to ensure that your accepted students stick with the > project after GSoC concludes? > > The big project I'd like to do for NEdit is to implement "real folding". > This > is probably too big a project for one GSoC project. We would hope to find a > student who is interested in such a big project even if he can only undertake > part of the project in the 2008 GSoC, and that his interest in the overall > folding effort will keep him interested in NEdit. > <quote plus first draft answers> > > Randy Kramer > > -- > NEdit Develop mailing list - [email protected] > http://www.nedit.org/mailman/listinfo/develop > -- NEdit Develop mailing list - [email protected] http://www.nedit.org/mailman/listinfo/develop
