On 2013-03-18 22:45, Jeremy Lavergne wrote: > I am going to submit an application on behalf of The MacPorts Project > for the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program 2013. I think most of > you have already heard of it: Google pays students to work on various > Open Source projects over the summer. It is also a good start for > students with Open Source development. As you may recall, Clemens > joined us after successfully completing his GSoC project to create > rev-upgrade for MacPorts.
Great! Thank you for taking care of the coordination of the organization application this year again. Also thanks to Clemens for taking the backup administrator role. > First, we need to apply to Google to be accepted as an mentoring > organization. Our full application cannot presently be viewed on > their website, however you can see a summary > <http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2011/macports>. > Our full application is available in our wiki: > > http://trac.macports.org/wiki/SummerOfCodeOrgApplication I made some minor edits just now. Did you make sure this is already based on the latest form provided by Google this year? > Also, if you have a specific idea what could be improved in MacPorts, > but you never had the time to do it yourself, please put a proposal > on our ideas page. Clemens and I are clearing up the list and there > are still interesting and important projects on it. And we need > mentors for these, of course. > > Ideas page: http://trac.macports.org/wiki/SummerOfCode We really could use some new ideas! Note that this just needs to be an idea, not a fully thought-out plan yet. It just needs to be something students might be willing to work on this summer. The details of the proposal for a project may be worked out by them as well. And as a side note, the result should be something useful that is integrated into our infrastructure by the end of the summer (before the student disappears). I don't want to see yet another rewrite of MPWA being sponsored that never gets deployed... I already added myself as a mentor on the wiki page. Also for those who are new to this and not sure if they want to mentor a student: in the past years it was possible to take the role as an additional co-mentor of a student. This allows to get a good insight into the responsibilities of a mentor in this program and also gives the student more than one person to talk to. Mentors also get a cool T-Shirt from Google each year! :-) Rainer _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
