On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Ross Gardler <[email protected]> wrote: > in reply to at least some of Robs queries: > > Google Summer of Code is the ideal opportunity for you to attract new > contributors to your projects. >
I just entered a proposal for the ODF Toolkit project: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ODFTOOLKIT-308 It would be great if we had a few proposals for OpenOffice as well. Anyone want to be a GSoC mentor? You can get started by reading here: http://community.apache.org/guide-to-being-a-mentor.html Also, if anyone has a good idea but doesn't have time to mentor, please post your ideas. There might be someone else who has time to mentor but could use some ideas. -Rob > 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 > > Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. > On Mar 5, 2012 6:16 PM, "Pedro Giffuni" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> --- Lun 5/3/12, Rob Weir <[email protected]> ha scritto: >> >> > >> > Looking at the timeframe for this, it looks like the program >> > is mainly mid-May through mid-August. So this will be after >> > AOO 3.4 is out, but before AOO 4.0 is out. >> > >> >> I think we will likely start using branches for some >> projects by then. >> >> > Does it need to be be core AOO C++ code projects? Or >> > could it be, for example, test suite development in >> > Java? What about OpenOffice extensions? >> > >> >> Both are pretty valid. I meant you can forget about >> marketing, documentation, or translation projects. Google >> Code-in is more appropriate for that. >> >> FWIW, the process has been revised several times by Google >> but there will likely be a midterm evaluations and final >> evaluations, ohh and mentors are also paid. >> >> > >> > Maybe we can get started by collecting ideas on a wiki >> > page? >> > >> >> Absolutely. I highly recommend using a format with >> at least this fields: >> >> [Project Idea Title] >> >> [Contact information] >> >> [Project Description ....] >> >> [Links] >> >> >> Pedro. >>
