Hi; As you know, once each year Google selects projects that they would like to fund by paying students for tasks. The Google Summer of Code program is a huge opportunity for projects like OpenOffice in order to achieve technical objectives and to get new blood into in the project.
Being under the ASF umbrella greatly simplifies the administrative efforts to participate in such program but still we have homework to do: 1) We need good project ideas. These necessarily have to be coding projects and have to have an estimated difficulty that permits effective results in a summer. 2) We need mentors; that is, people with technical skills that know what to be done and can provide help in the details. It obviously also means people with time to review code and guide complete newcomers to the code. It is not specifically required but some logic would imply that: 1) Mentors will have to be committers to ensure the results will become part of source tree. 2) Selected students will have to submit an ICLA. 3) A proposed project must be backed by a mentor. I would also expect that being very optimistic we will get very few slots for AOO: we are under friendly competition with other Apache projects that are interesting for students and that have experience dealing with GSoC students from previous years. best regards, Pedro.
