No Google Summer of Code for you! But how about an all-volunteer, shoestring budget summer of code, instead?
Tahoe was not accepted to be one of the 150 organizations that google will pay a student to hack on this summer. They give feedback to rejected organizations, explaining why they weren't chosen. Our feedback was: "Ideas list needs more things like programming languages one needs to know, categorization by easy medium and hard". So this means that the 1000 students that google is going to pay to hack on open source projects this summer will not be offered Tahoe as one of their options. However, we have such good mentor volunteers, and such good ideas, that I'm really hoping to find some other way to rope some young hacker into learning under our tutelage this summer. The first possibility is that the Python Software Foundation might let one of the students assigned to them work on a Tahoe project this summer. The next step on that path is for our mentors to write to the Python Software Foundation GSoC organizer, Arc Riley <[email protected]> introducing yourself and saying you are affiliated with the Tahoe project and would mentor a student this summer. The next possibility is that some students will volunteer to hack on Tahoe this summer in return for the benefit of experience and for the chance to work with excellent mentors. The next step on that path is for any students out there reading this to write to one or more of the mentors listed on http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/GSoCIdeas saying that you would like to work on a project this summer. Please let me know if you're interested! Regards, Zooko _______________________________________________ tahoe-dev mailing list [email protected] http://allmydata.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev
