Tho Im not the organiser of this, the Enlightenment page for GSoC ideas is here, as EFL was accepted in too! Note there is a systray there. http://wiki.enlightenment.org/index.php/SoC_Project_Ideas Congrats to all that got in. Its going to be a good summer. Toma
On 18/03/2008, Thiago Macieira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Google announced last night the list of organisations[1] that were accepted > for the Summer of Code programme of this year. For those not aware of it, > within Summer of Code, organisations select a number of students from all > parts of the world to work on certain projects for three months. In return, > Google pays $4500 to this student and donates $500 to the mentoring > organisation. > > The whole idea is to get students involved in Open Source/Free Software > during > their vacations, which they might otherwise spend in a Summer job. For more > information, please see the website. > > Freedesktop.org did not apply as an organisation. There are many reasons for > this, the most important one being that freedesktop.org is an informal group > of developers working on a really diverse number of projects and > specifications. But that doesn't mean projects linked to Freedesktop.org > don't have a chance. > > Like last year, both GNOME and KDE are accepting proposals for projects > related to freedesktop.org tools and libraries. Both organisations have said > they will reserve a number of slots for fd.o-related initiatives, but we > cannot yet say how many that will be. It will depend on the quality of the > proposals that are received, as well as the total number of slots that Google > allocates to us. > > This of course doesn't mean KDE and GNOME are taking over fd.o activities: it > just seems a natural way for us to extend the reach of our organisations to > projects that we use, depend on or simply improve the quality of the Free > Desktop experience. Students are free to apply wherever that makes sense. For > example, in the list of accepted organisations, you'll find many Linux > distributions as well as three BSDs and some umbrella organisations; some of > those other organisations may have specific goals that may involve fd.o > projects and we'll be glad to see fd.o-related projects mentored by them. > > So, what we ask from you is that you think of ideas that you may want to have > developed by students. Our wiki pages[2][3] are open for editing, or you may > create a wiki page of your own and add a link in ours. > > We would also like to hear suggestions on how fd.o project mentors would want > to participate in rating the applications and how students should apply > (whether it's to one of the two orgs or both of them). > > If you have any question, please contact: > Thiago Macieira - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Vincent Untz - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [1] http://code.google.com/soc/2008/ > [2] http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2008/Ideas > [3] > http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Projects/Summer_of_Code/2008/Ideas > > > -- > Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org > PGP/GPG: 0x6EF45358; fingerprint: > E067 918B B660 DBD1 105C 966C 33F5 F005 6EF4 5358 > > _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg > > > _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
