I've found mentoring is a good way to stay active with the project. Structured commitment is a lot easier for me to manage than random JIRA issues on my nights and weekends.
-- Kevin 2009/3/20 Andrus Adamchik <[email protected]>: > FYI. > > Andrey already proposed some new projects. Maybe there will be more ideas. > Now the question is whether we have anyone to mentor those projects? > > Andrus > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Luciano Resende <[email protected]> >> Date: March 19, 2009 11:52:29 PM GMT+02:00 >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [GSoC 2009] Apache is officially participating in Google Summer of >> Code 2009 >> Reply-To: [email protected] >> Reply-To: [email protected] >> >> Dear PMC, >> >> It's now official, Google has announced that The Apache Software >> Foundation was selected as one of the participating organization in >> the GSoC 2009 program. This is an excellent opportunity for Apache, as >> it allows projects to build/increase its community, it also help >> students to learn about open source, about Apache Software Foundation >> and how to do things the "Apache Way". >> >> Please start advertising the program and discussing project ideas with >> your project community. Then add your project ideas to the ASF GSoC >> 2009 Official Project Ideas page [1], as this is going to be the most >> visible place for students. Per GSoC 2009 timeline, Students should >> officially start applying for these ideas on March 23. >> >> ASF Members and committers can volunteer to be mentors in the GSoC >> 2009 program (see [2] for more details about being a mentor). We >> invite all mentors and GSoC interested parties to subscribe to the >> [email protected] mailing list [3] to coordinate work between mentors, >> ask questions and get updates related to GSoC 2009 program. >> >> Please, feel free to forward this announce to any appropriate dev@ or >> users@ lists so your larger community can hear about the GSoC 2009 >> program. >> >> [1] http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCode2009 >> [2] http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCodeMentor >> [3] mailto:[email protected] >> >> >> -- >> Luciano Resende >> http://people.apache.org/~lresende >> http://lresende.blogspot.com/ >> > >
