A little correction. At the beginning I though only open-source Smalltalk dialects were possible, but now Janko let me know that non open-source dialects are welcome too. What really has to be open-source is the project/idea in particular, but the Smalltalk dialect in itself can be non open-source.
Sorry for the noise. Mariano On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck <[email protected] > wrote: > Hi smalltalkers. I have been asked to be the admin of GSoC 2010. The backup > or second admin is Janko Mivšek. As you may know, Squeak has participated in > GSoC 2007, 2008 but failed (not accepted) in 2009. We are not sure if we > will succeed this year but we will try to do as much as possible. > > We think that one of the most important reasons why we failed in 2009 is > that Google was looking for bigger communities that Squeak. This is why this > year we all go under the ESUG umbrella. We present ESUG as the mentor > organization and we cover ALL open-source Smalltalk dialects, not only > Squeak. Pharo, Smalltalk/X, GNU Smalltalk, Cuis..they are all invited to > participate. Also cross platform projects like Seaside, AidaWeb, Magma, etc > are welcome. > > <forThoseWhoDoesntKnowWhatGSoCIs> > It is a Google program that support (money) students to work on different > open-source projects. Google doesn't talk or manage directly to the students > but trough "Mentoring Organisations". Those organizations have to apply to > GSoC. They have to give a lot of information, included a list of > ideas/projects. Each project has a description and a mentor. Then the > students apply for each project. If the organization gets selected by Google > they will tell you how many "slots" they give. Suppose they give 5 but we > have 20 projects....then we vote and the most voted projects win. The > student has to do the project and the mentor has to help and guide him. The > mentor receives 500 USD and the student 4500USD. > For more information read: http://code.google.com/soc/ > </forThoseWhoDoesntKnowWhatGSoCIs> > > The most important thing is the deadlines we have. We started late so we > are very near to the first deadline which is 12/03/2010 (less than one > week). For that deadline we need to submit all the information of the mentor > organization (answering several questions) and give the list of > ideas/projects and the mentors of that. > > We have created a webpage (Thanks Janko!!) where we will put all the > information. We will make this page public soon (we still need to review a > couple of things). > But for the moment we would REALLY appreciate if tell us your ideas. To do > this, just answer to this email. Then we will collect the information and > put in the website. For each idea you need: a short title and a paragraph > (for the moment) explaining the idea. > After, we need that the people that are willing to be mentors start to > apply as mentors...please, consider yourself being mentor. Sometimes it is > not that difficult. I mean, don't be shy as sometimes being helpful, being > aware of the dates, answering emails, etc is more important than the > Smalltalk knoweldege. We can have a lot of ideas, but we need also mentors > for that. We even would need a "substitute" for each mentor... > > Just as an example you can see the ideas of the previous years: > 2007: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5936 > 2008: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6031 > 2009: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6120 > > That's all for the moment. > > Cheers > > Mariano > >
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