On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 7:11 AM, Svante Schubert <[email protected]> wrote: > When is the deadline for mentors? >
It looks like they announced the accepted organizations today. Apache was accepted: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2012/apache It is not clear what the next steps are for Mentors. But I do see your proposal and my proposal listed ("Ideas" on the above page): https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator!executeAdvanced.jspa?jqlQuery=labels+=+gsoc2012&runQuery=true&clear=true > Looking at http://community.apache.org/guide-to-being-a-mentor.html > I can not find a mail archive for code-awards at > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ > Looking at the given labeled issue query > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?requestId=12315361 > I am able to find 6 tasks labeled with "gsoc 2012"and two additional > labeled with "gsoc2012" > Did you receive any emails from the code-awards list? I send a subscribe a note a a couple of weeks ago and never heard anything. > In addition I have seen a broken manual at > http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCMentoringGuide > > At the Google Calendar > http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2012 I get the > impression I got till start of Monday, left! > > PS: I know Google sponsors the event, but what's exactly in for mentors > and mentees - aside of glory and training? > I think there is a stipend for the student (paid twice, mid summer and again at the end) and a small payment to the mentoring organization. For the Mentors, we get someone to help us write code, and maybe grow the community. -Rob > Best, > Svante > > On 05.03.2012 21:56, Rob Weir wrote: >> Hopefully PMC members saw the note regarding GSoC. Apache is applying >> to be a participating organization. >> >> This is the info for potential mentors: >> >> ------------------ >> >> If you want to participate with your project you NOW need to >> >> - understand what it means to be a mentor [1] - propose your project ideas. >> Just label your issues with gsoc2012 in JIRA and they will show up at [2]. >> See also [1]. - subscribe to [email protected] (restricted to >> potential mentors, meant to be used as a private list - general discussions >> on the public [email protected] list as much as possible please) >> >> The ASF will apply as a participating organization with GSoC, your project >> doesn't need to do that. See [3] for more information. Note that the ASF >> isn't accepted yet, nevertheless you *really* should start recording your >> ideas now. >> >> Last year we had 38 students completing GSoC successfully, some of which >> are now active contributors to the projects they worked on. Let's make this >> a success again this year! >> >> On behalf of the GSoC 2012 admins, >> >> Uli >> >> [1] http://community.apache.org/guide-to-being-a-mentor.html >> [2] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2012tasks >> [3] http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html >> ------------------ >> >> Note that a couple of years ago, the ODF Toolkit Union applied for >> GSoC, but was not accepted. But as part of that effort we (well, >> Svante did most of the work) created a website listing project ideas. >> you can see it on the legacy website here; >> >> http://odftoolkit.org/projects/odftoolkit/pages/GoogleSummerOfCode2010ProjectIdeas >> >> Some of these ideas have already been done now, like the encryption >> and digital signature work that Devin did. But other ideas still >> remain. >> >> Any other ideas? >> >> One thing that I thought might be cool would be a set of command line >> utilities that mimic the common GNU/Linux tools, but which operate on >> ODF documents. cat, grep, diff and sed are obvious ones. Maybe >> something awk-like that works with spreadsheets? No need to be >> slavish to the original tools, but create something of similar power, >> but which operate on ODF documents. >> >> -Rob >
