The application deadline is Monday, but if you haven't gone through a couple rounds of feedback by then you probably won't succeed. Last minute applications don't work.
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 3:34 AM, Shawn M Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings! > > The application process for Google Summer of Code 2008 - > (http://code.google.com/soc/2008/) - has started. For those who don't > know, this is a Google-sponsored project that pays student developers to > work on Open Source projects. > > We're excited about RT being a possible Summer of Code project, under > > the umbrella of the new Enlightened Perl Organisation > (http://www.enlightenedperl.org/). Enlightened Perl's aims are to > promote the use of Perl as a high-level, enterprise-grade solution, and > to collect and distribute funding and support for modules and > applications that further such a use of Perl. In conjunction with the > Perl Foundation, Enlightened Perl is currently serving as a mentoring > organization for Catalyst, Jifty, DBIx::Class, RT, svk and Moose, and > potentially many more. > > The Enlightened Perl coordinator for GSoC2008 is Mike Whitaker (IRC: > Penfold on irc.perl.org, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]). > > We need: > > Suggestions for projects: please add these to the Enlightened Perl > section on > http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc2008_projects. Not all > students will want to take on a suggested project - some will propose a > project of their own (and frequently have a lot of success doing so). > The GSoC schedule allocates roughly 2 1/2 months of development time to > individual projects. > > > Volunteers for people to act as mentors (either for a specific project > or in general). This will require a certain time commitment - you will > be expected to be in touch with both your student and the Enlightened > Perl coordinator for a couple of short Agile-style 'standup' meetings > every working day. If you're willing, please add yourself to > http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc2008_mentors. > > If you want more information, feel free to ask on IRC (#soc, #epo, or > #rt on irc.perl.org) and/or check the GSoC and EP websites, or respond > > to this mail. > > Thanks! > > Shawn M Moore, > for Best Practical > > and > > Mike Whitaker, > for Enlightened Perl Organisation > _______________________________________________ > List info: http://lists.bestpractical.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rt-devel > -- Best regards, Ruslan. _______________________________________________ http://lists.bestpractical.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rt-users Community help: http://wiki.bestpractical.com Commercial support: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Discover RT's hidden secrets with RT Essentials from O'Reilly Media. Buy a copy at http://rtbook.bestpractical.com
