I just got word from Arc Riley that we've been accepted into the PSF GSOC "umbrella" project ( http://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode/2011 ).
That site is down for me at the moment, but it's a known issue that The Pylons Project is not yet listed in the "PSF Umbrella Teams" section on that page. I'll ask Arc to add our information as soon as I can. Students wishing to participate should eventually create an application as per http://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode/Application . The place to actually submit an application is http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/profile/student/google/gsoc2011 using the "Python Software Foundation" as the organization, and mention within the application body itself that the application is specifically for the Pylons Project subproject. But before applying: - choose an idea for implementation, possibly taken from https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/wiki/Gsoc2011 or https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/wiki/Pyramid-2-Brainstorm . For example, porting Pyramid and its dependencies to Python 3 is a manageable and reasonable goal, and also aligns with the goals of the PSF umbrella organization, which is one arbiter of the final decision about student allocation. - try to talk your idea over on the Freenode #pyramid IRC channel ( irc://irc.freenode.net#pyramid )with any of the currently available mentors (#mcdonc, #TresEquis, #sluggo206, #whit, #raydeo, #caseman) and get an idea of whether it's sane or not. Please be patient with us: if you don't get a response right away in IRC, hang in there.. someone will reply as soon as possible. Unfortunately, we will not be able to accept all students who apply. First, we'd like to keep the mentor-to-student ratio at at least 3 to 1, because all of the mentors have day jobs. Due to mentor time constraint reality, we'll need at least 3 mentors to coach a single full-time student. Due to this, we can only currently accept a maximum of 2 students currently (we have six mentors now). Note also that the PSF has a limited number of slots for students, so even if your application is fantastic and credible, we may not be able to accept you. Arc has told us that at he's going to try to make sure we get at least one student slot, but zero or more than one is also possible: """ PSF can get pretty crowded and some projects can end up with no students from the process just because Google didn't allocate us enough slots for everyone. I try to make sure every project with at least one quality student application gets a student when we do the final selection but there are no guarantees. """ Students who provide the most focused outline of what they'd like to accomplish where the goals of the outline align with those of the mentors and the PSF will be preferred. But there's still a risk of not being accepted even if you have the best-focused and most-aligned and best-written application, apologies. - C -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en.
