I forgot to mention: applications are due by Apr. 8. I believe you can create an application via the GSOC website at http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/profile/student/google/gsoc2011 immediately and change it up til that day.
- C On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 17:06 -0400, Chris McDonough wrote: > 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.
