Hi Florian, I've seen some amazing things achieved with GSOCs. Take Django's Meta API by Daniel Pyrathon [1] as a good example.
See here how Django GSOC devs/mentors wrote some really nice ideas for students to pick from (including the Meta API idea) [2] [3]. [1] https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/details/google/gsoc2014/pirosb3/5649050225344512 [2] https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/SummerOfCode2014 [3] https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/SummerOfCode2015 Tom On 10 February 2016 at 17:00, <[email protected]> wrote: > Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 13:59:42 +0100 > From: Florian Bruhin <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [pytest-dev] Google Summer Of Code > Message-ID: <20160210125942.GJ10579@tonks> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hey, > > I was asked by qutebrowser users if I want to participate as an > organization for Google's Summer Of Code - while I don't think it > makes sense for a "smaller" project like qutebrowser, I think it'd > make a lot of sense for pytest! > > The idea of GSoC is that opensource projects apply for it, then > students apply to a given project, then contribute a significant > amount of work (being mentored by project members) and in exchange get > a stipend (~USD 5000) from Google. > > Applications are open until Feburary 19th (Friday in a week...) - what > about trying with pytest? > > What we'd need are two (or more) administrative organisators (I'd > volunteer) and mentors. > > The PSF is also available as an umbrella organization: > https://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode/2016 > > What do you think? > > Florian >
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