Besides the GSoC, the programming contest in China(http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/contest/) also provides a platform for students to get involved in OpenSolaris community. The contest/GSoC is just the beginning. What's more important is to foster student interests around the community. To get to this point, we need more mentor volunteers/project proposals from the community.
Regards, -Alfred Darren Reed wrote: > On Saturday, I walked over to the googleplex to attend the > Google Summer of Code mentor summit. This is for all of > the mentors from GSoC projects to get together and reflect > on what worked, what didn't work, etc. > > Most of the sessions were people talking about what they > worked on (which wasn't that interesting) but the standout > was the "security software" session, led by the author of > nmap. > > Some of the highlights in hearing about how other projects > got involved with students: > > - GSoC led to the students becoming more involed with the > projects by doing support (bug fixing, answering questions) > after their GSoC project was completed and integrated; > > - some students have come back in successive years, building > familiarity with the project, code, and becoming more of a > regular contributor; > > - effort is required to weed out bad submitters but even when > you think you've done this successfully, things can still turn > out bad; > > - students will put participation in GSoC (for good or bad) on > their resume. > > While I'm not sure what will be happening next year, it is likely > to run again. This year I believe there were 6 to 8 submissions > for GSoC projects on OpenSolaris, of which 4 were accepted. > Next year we, opensolaris, should be thinking about how we > can drive greater interest through GSoC, get more submissions > and hopefully increase the number of acceptances to 6-8. > > Cheers, > Darren > > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
