Hi Guys! > Christopher, what do we have to do to formulate a proposal?
To apply to GSoc, we need to fill out this page: http://code.google.com/soc/2008/org_signup.html This is essentially a set of questions (I tried to fill some of them out below already) and an URL to a page that describes our ideas. For example Apache used this page last year: http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCode2007 Or Inkscape this: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Googles_Summer_Of_Code_2007 Essentially we propose ideas to Google and they select those to offer to students. Questions we need to answer (I answered : ---++ About Your Organization 1.) What is your Organization's Name? 2.) What is your Organization's Homepage? http://jabref.sourceforge.net 3.) Describe your organization. 4.) Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2008? What do you hope to gain by participating? 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) 7.) What license does your project use? GPL 8.) URL for your ideas page 10.) What is the main development mailing list for your organization? 11.) Where is the main IRC channel for your organization? No IRC. 12.) Does your organization have an application template you would like to see students use? If so, please provide it now. (optional) 13.) 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) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---++ About Your Mentors 14.) What criteria did you use to select these individuals as mentors? Please be as specific as possible. We chose among long-standing developers with the project who fitted all the three following criteria: a.) the expertise with the code base b.) have introduced new developers to the code before (or even conducted projects with students on the code) c.) have volunteered to be a mentor 15.) 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) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---++ About The Program 16.) What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students? Regarding the project: Work done by students will be done in a separate branch as to minimize harm against the project. Regarding the students: Our plan is to use weekly status updates and keep in close contact with the student throughout the program. We are sure that our ideas are interesting enough and that our mentors can provide enough guidance and motivation that students will stick with us though. 17.) What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors? All our mentors have agreed to be available during the course of the project and to Each mentor has agreed to substitute in for another mentor in case the mentor be unavailable 18.) What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your project's community before, during and after the program? 19.) What will you do to ensure that your accepted students stick with the project after GSoC concludes? We think we have a good sense of community in the project that would make students stick to us. Two ideas we had for making students stick is a.) to provide follow-up projects b.) suggest to students that they promote JabRef at their university (this makes them stick, since most people really love JabRef for working with BibTex, so we are sure that will make them like to stay with us :-) > What are possible work packages? I would suggest starting a wiki page for collecting ideas. > Do we have candidates that apply for this job yet? Students? Not yet, but I could advertise a little bit here at the university. Cheers, Christopher ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Jabref-devel mailing list Jabref-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jabref-devel
