A kind reminder to XMPP projects to list ideas if they want to participate at GSoC 2024.
https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Google_Summer_of_Code_2024 10 ene 2024 21:38:41 E.M. <[email protected]>: > Dear all, > > the XMPP Standards Foundation once again plans to apply for the Google Summer > of Code 2024! > https://opensource.googleblog.com/2023/11/google-summer-of-code-2024-celebrating-20th-year.html > > Hereby, I call everyone interested to reach out and start planning their > participation. If you are interested please review: > > - Read the mentoring guide or at least watch their Youtube videos: > https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/faq > - The time you can really spent as mentor: > https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline > - Your project runs under a OSI approved license: > https://opensource.org/licenses/ > - You will require to register to Google's organization platform with an > Google account. However, you don't need a Google mail, just carefully follow > the steps. > - Communicate and reach out in your OWN community too. > - You and your students need to be available continuously through XMPP. In > the recent years I had the experience people being offline and were not able > to reach through their XMPP accounts sufficiently. > > Regarding the latter, the stipend also has interest for community bonding, > also to XMPP in general. You shouldn't expect students to solve difficult > implementation unless you know them and their capabilities. > > Application starts at Monday, 22nd January 2024, please have potential ideas > ready by then. > > Changes to GSoC to this year for your interest: > > - "Starting in 2024 we will have small (~90 hour projects), medium (~175 hr > projects) and large (~350 hour) projects available to GSoC contributors. Orgs > should have medium and large projects available in their Project Ideas lists. > Small project ideas are not required for orgs, but if the smaller size > project works for your org they should be included in your Organization’s > Ideas List." > > Find our wikipage for organization here: > https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Google_Summer_of_Code_2024 > To edit the page, reach out to an XSF member to enter your input or you’ll > need a wiki account, which we’ll happily provide for you. Reach out in the > XSF public chatroom: https://xmpp.org/chat#converse/[email protected] > > I am happy to hear from a backup org admin to help me here and there or if I > cannot make it due to other appointments. Basic organization skills should be > sufficient. > > Let me know if you have further questions. Please join: > > Cheers, > Eddie > _________________________ > GSoC Administrator at XSF
