Hi Scott, According to the FAQ, "Institutions and FOSS projects can join from now until the end of June". Is the registration period over, or does it span until the end of August?
Thanks, Eduard On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Scott Wilson < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm working with an initiative similar to Google Summer of Code, called > Semester of Code, and I think it would be great to have students work on > XWiki. Below is more detailed information, but basically its like GSoC, > except students are involved as part of their courses or industrial > placements, so receive academic credit rather than money for their work. > > Hopefully this is of interest to the XWiki community! > > If any questions aren't answered by the FAQ[1] or invitation below, feel > free to ask. > > All the best, > > - Scott > > ~~~ > > The VALS Semester of Code [1] project is working with European > universities and FOSS communities to give students real-world experience > working in open source software projects while receiving academic credit. > The benefit to your projects will be valuable and hopefully ongoing > contributions. VALS will also benefit the wider sector by helping to > produce graduates with the skills and experience needed to engage with open > development. > > Our first Semester of Code will involve approximately 75 student > placements, starting in September. We would like to invite your > organisation to participate in this pilot by offering mentored placements > within your projects. > > If you have participated in Google Summer of Code before, you will find > our process similar; we will seek placements for student projects, and will > use the a system similar to Google's Melange platform to manage placements. > However, VALS differs from Summer of Code in that instead of receiving > money for their participation, students will receive academic credit. For > this reason the mentors from your project will need to liaise with the > student's academic tutor. The VALS project will support this process to > ensure it runs as smoothly as possible. We also ensure the admin overhead > is minimal. > > The VALS initiative is a partnership of European universities and SMEs who > have been working for several months to plan the pilot of Semester of Code, > which will run during the next academic year. We have now reached the > stage where we are signing up FOSS projects who are willing to provide > mentors. We have already seen interest from smaller, single-company > projects to larger software foundations, and would like to see more. > > If you'd be willing to provide one or more mentored projects, we’d love to > talk to you about joining Semester of Code. In return, you’ll get an > enthusiastic student providing a valuable contribution to your project. > The VALS team will be on hand throughout the project to answer any > questions and help unblock communication issues between mentors, students > and academic supervisors. > > To join in the Semester of Code or to simply find out more you can email > [email protected], or you can sign up to our mailing list directly > by using the web form [1]. > > More detail about the Semester of Code are available on our FAQ page [2]. > If you have any other questions, don’t hesitate to ask on the mailing list, > and one of the VALS team will get back to you! > 1: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=VALS-SOC&A=1 > 2: http://semesterofcode.com/?p=22 > > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
