It should be pointed out that Kev always does an amazing job on the GSOC application and general XSF project cat-herding.
Thanks Kev. Now lets hope the XSF gets selected for GSOC this year. S. On 19 February 2015 at 18:07, Kevin Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks to everyone who’s sent in ideas. Some contributions have been more > involved than others - can everyone who’s sent me text please check that > all the fields of the template are filled with enough information for > students to understand what’s required of them. Particularly that ‘expected > results’ should be a set of deliverables, not ‘complete the project’ type > comments (particularly as we’ll be wanting mentors to work with students to > ensure code is merged throughout the summer, and not delivered in a > big-bang patch at the end of the summer - history has shown us the latter > isn’t the right approach). > > I’ve got all the ideas so far up at > http://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Summer_of_Code_2015 > > /K > > > > On 13 Feb 2015, at 19:10, Kevin Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > A reminder that I need the ideas in this week if we’re going to do > anything about GSoC this year - so far I’ve only had ideas in from 2 1/2 > projects, and many more than that told me they were interested. > > > > Monday, please. > > > > /K > > > >> On 9 Feb 2015, at 10:59, Kevin Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Hi folks, > >> Although we’ve not officially decided to apply to GSoC this year, we’ve > got a lot of interest from potential mentors so I’m going to go ahead and > ask people to supply me with ideas. Rather than going the traditional route > of editing a wiki page en masse, I’d like to triage the ideas to make sure > they’re fully fleshed out as the ideas page is a large part of what Google > use to determine the quality of our application. Anyone interested in > mentoring a project this year, please send me the details in the format > that follows. If you’re not sure what’s involved in being a mentor, please > be prepared to allow about an hour a day throughout the summer; there are > many resources online about good mentoring, e.g. > http://google-opensource.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/dos-and-donts-of-google-summer-of-code_21.html > . Mentors should be in a senior position within the project they’re > mentoring (or approved by those that are), and have some experience of > teamleading/mentoring/management; if you’ve got ideas for your favourite > XMPP project but aren’t in a position to mentor yourself, please get in > touch with someone who could mentor, and have them send on the ideas > proposal to me. > >> > >> Ideas template: > >> “”” > >> Software Project: e.g. Swift, Prosody, ejabberd, Smack… > >> Software URL: e.g. http://swift.im > >> Software VCS URL: e.g. http://swift.im/git/ > >> Software Description: Assume people don’t know what your application > is, so e.g. Swift is an XMPP chat client meant to be user friendly, written > in … (a few lines describing the project and its ethos). > >> Title: Short and descriptive title, e.g. “Server-side message history > support" > >> Brief explanation: A short paragraph (A half dozen to a dozen sentences > or so) describing what’s involved in the project > >> Expected results: Some concrete deliverables > >> Knowledge Prerequisite: e.g. extensive C++ knowledge, TLS > implementations > >> Implementation Languages: e.g. C++, Python, Javascript > >> Mentor: you > >> Contact details: MUC / IRC channel / mailing list etc. > >> “”” > >> > >> We don’t have much time to do this, so I’d like all the ideas in this > week, please. > >> > >> We also need teaser tasks, which I’d like to set up centrally this > year. I’ll send a mail about that once I’ve sorted out a sensible template > for them. > >> > >> /K > > > > -- Simon Tennant | CEO Buddycloud <http://buddycloud.com> | +49 17 8545 0880
