On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 23:53:19 +0100 Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de> wrote:
> > On 08.03.2010, at 21:20, Luiz Capitulino wrote: > > > > > Hi there, > > > > Google has this wonderful program called Summer of Code, in which open > > source > > projects like ours, suggest possible projects and provide mentors to help > > selected students to do them. > > > > It's a great opportunity for students to get in touch with open source > > development, also good for us to get some projects done and more people > > involved (students are paid too, btw). > > > > The dead-line is a bit short: next friday (March, 12), more information > > in the program's page: > > > > http://socghop.appspot.com/ > > > > I didn't read it fully yet, but I _guess_ the most important is to come > > up with project ideas and mentors. Everything should be in a wiki. > > Nice :-). I'd love to mentor. We have a lot of open things to do in the PPC > space, but I could just as well use help with finally getting x86 Mac OS X > guest support upstream ;-). > > So who's sending out the actual project application? I'd feel odd if I'd do > it. The student. We (as a mentoring organization) will suggest some project ideas and assign mentors. On a following phase, students will go through the projects and submit the actual project application. Now, we need: 1. More mentors. Mentoring is quite important, who wishes to be one has to have the time for it 2. Organization Administrator. The person who will do the administrative stuff. I could do this role, but then I won't mentor 3. Project ideas and wiki info
