Hi, On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 11:11:07PM -0700, Denis Dupeyron wrote:
> Google Summer of Code 2016 is starting. <...> > In this initial > phase the audience is project mentors. Note that you do not need to be > a Gentoo developer to be a mentor. <...> > If you would like to be a mentor for this year please tell us sooner > rather than later. You can be a mentor following up with students while > they're working on their project, or you can be an expert-mentor in a > specific field who will be called in to advise on an as-needed basis > (or maybe never). We will also need people to help us review project > proposals. In case you can help in any capacity don't hesitate to > contact us. GSoC is seriously fun! > If you want to reach us or have any questions about any of the above, > the easiest way is to ping Calchan or rafaelmartins in the #gentoo-soc > channel on Freenode. I'm seriously thinking about becoming a mentor this year. However, I'd like to apply for the imapfw project¹. imapfw aims at replacing OfflineIMAP in the long term. OfflineIMAP is a known application in the portage tree, I guess. I am the current "upstream" maintainer of both OfflineIMAP and imapfw. IOW, this GSoC project would not be a direct enhancement for the Gentoo's related stuff. It's just an app in the tree. Hence, why am I requesting you? It's mostly about audience and having this GSoC project more widely spread, especially to the students. Also, this could greatly help to find a backup mentor. I don't aim to take a slot in the GSoC in the name of Gentoo if you don't want to. In this case, I'd like to request you to add a final secion to your ideas page like "Other's projects you could like" (or something) and a link to our ideas page (not yet written). Little projects like ours usually have various difficulties for getting things done while our softwares are still appreciated by final-users needing them. For the GSoC, the worse blockers I can think of are: - having potential students know about us, our project and that we are recruiting too; - let know to the GSoC orgs we are not alone in the process and have some kind of support from bigger open communities. I hope you'll agree to help us a bit in this area. Anyone wanting to help me at making this GSoC successful is welcome. Also, I'm open to any advice. [1] https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/imapfw Regards, -- Nicolas Sebrecht
