DSpace can be a mentoring organisation -- we just need an organisation administrator as the main point of contact (I can do this if it makes sense to people), and mentors to work with the students. If some committers or active community members are willing to step up to this we should definitely put in an application. (Committers? ;-)
I seeded an ideas page on the Wiki -- please add your ideas! http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/Summer_of_Code_Ideas Rob On 16/02/07, John Erickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Folks! > > I'm sure many of you saw the announcement that there will be a Google > Summer of Code for 2007: > > * http://code.google.com/ > * http://code.google.com/soc/ > > FAQ at: http://code.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=10442 > > "...Google Summer of Code(TM) 2007 is on! Last year, Google funded over > 600 students in 93 countries to work with 100 open source groups. We're > extremely happy to announce that we'll be holding Google Summer of Code > again this year. We look forward to helping new contributors join the > community and write more code...We won't start accepting applications > until March, so in the interim check out the FAQs for more information. > Our program administrators will also be hanging out in the Google Summer > of Code discussion group and in #summer-discuss on Slashnet. We'd love > to hear from you!.." > > SO, my question is: is there any in the DSpace Federation and/or > individual DSpace adopting organizations becoming "Mentoring Organizations?" > > Perhaps Rob could speak to this; I know very little about it (other than > trying to get my Python-wielding daughter to enter...) > > John > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > DSpace-tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
