[Lift] Re: Lift Google Summer of Code?

2010-02-07 Thread Peter Robinett
Hey Justin, That sounds like a very cool idea. Do you know what the organization has to do? On Feb 6, 7:23 pm, Justin Reardon justin.rear...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, I'm a Computer Science student at the University of Waterloo, looking to participate in Google Summer of Code program this

Re: [Lift] Re: Lift Google Summer of Code?

2010-02-07 Thread Timothy Perrett
It would require one of the committers to essentially act as a mentor - someone who knows Lift very well would need to mentor the candidate and dedicate a fair amount of time to the program. We looked at doing it last year if memory serves... Cheers, Tim On 7 Feb 2010, at 17:29, Peter

Re: [Lift] Re: Lift Google Summer of Code?

2010-02-07 Thread Justin Reardon
Yes, there were posts mentioning the possibility the last two years even, but no one appeared to follow up on them. Google hasn't got the documentation up for 2010 yet (shortly they say), but it's supposed to be pretty much the same as last year. A some point in early March interested

Re: [Lift] Re: Lift Google Summer of Code?

2010-02-07 Thread David Pollak
I mentored Greggory Brown (Ruport now Ruby Reports) for GSoC in 2006. It was an excellent experience for me. I would be willing to mentor a single student doing Lift work if I could time-box it to 3 hours/week and if there was the right chemistry between me and the student. I do not have the