If anyone wants to mentor a GSoC student you need to get your idea entered into JIRA now. It looks like the deadline is this weekend.
I wonder whether a streaming/scanning parser could be done in this time frame? We've seen some cases where our DOM-based solution takes up too much memory and a more SAX-like approach would be better. Any other ideas? -Rob ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ulrich Stärk <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 5:01 AM Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code 2013 To: [email protected] Dear PMCs, I'm going to submit our application to Google this weekend but our ideas list only shows 34 ideas until now. That's a shame considering that we have over a hundred projects and were able to offer potential students 142 project ideas to choose from last year and it might also hinder our chances of being accepted. Remember, GSoC is a great way to attract fresh blood to your projects and to get work done that might otherwise go undone. It is in your own interest to participate. Incubator mentors, please also talk to your respective podlings. If there is anything keeping you from participating, or anything that needs clarification, don't hesitate to contact the community development project at [email protected] or, if you want to keep the discussion private, [email protected]. Cheers, Uli On 05.03.2013 16:26, Ulrich Stärk wrote: > Hello PMCs, > > Google Summer of Code [1] is the ideal opportunity for you to attract new > contributors to your projects. > > The ASF will apply as a participating organization meaning individual > projects don't have to apply > separately. > > If you want to participate with your project you NOW need to > > - understand what it means to be a mentor [2]. > > - record your project ideas. Just create issues in JIRA, label them with > gsoc2013, and they will > show up at [3]. Please be as specific as possible when describing your idea. > Include the programming > language, the tools and skills required, but try not to scare potential > students away. They are > supposed to learn what's required before the program starts. Use labels, e.g. > for the programming > language (java, c, c++, erlang, python, brainfuck, ...) or technology area > (cloud, xml, web, foo, > bar, ...) and record them at [5]. Please use the COMDEV JIRA project for > recording your ideas if > your project doesn't use JIRA (e.g. httpd, ooo). Contact > [email protected] if you need > assistance. > > - 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). Use a recognized address when subscribing (@apache.org or one of > your alias addresses on > record). > > Note that the ASF isn't accepted yet, nevertheless you *really* should start > recording your ideas now. > > Over the years we were able to complete hundreds of projects successfully. > Some of our prior > students are active contributors now! Let's make this a success again this > year! > > > Uli > > P.S.: Except for the private parts (label spreadsheet mostly), this email is > free to be shared > publicly if you want to. > > [1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013 > [2] http://community.apache.org/guide-to-being-a-mentor.html > [3] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2013ideas > [4] http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html > [5] http://s.apache.org/gsoclabels >
