On 30/10/2020 20:18, Konstantin Gizdov wrote: > Hi all! > > Last year Arch Linux applied to be a mentoring organisation in the > Google Summer of Code program. There were quite a few cool projects and > lots of keen people. Unfortunately, we were not selected. > > However, I was hoping people are excited about trying again this year as > well. I have already been contacted by a couple of people who saw the > GSOC page on the Dev Wiki and are showing quite some interest. I > presume, if we advertise we will get a lot of interested people.
My feedback from the previous attempt last year is that we took too little time to really write a decent application and provide a clear list of potential GsoC projects. > GSOC application period starts on January 29, 2021 for mentoring > organisations and closes on February 19, 2021. We should make sure we > satisfy the requirements [1]: > 1. Mentor organisations must run an active open source or free software > project. > 2. Have produced and released software under an OSI approved license [2]. > 3. Must not be based in a country currently embargoed by the United States. We do meet these requirements, but the last time I remember we had to fill in a lot of forms for our organization application. This goes for projects and for the whole organization fill in form, which is sadly not available yet and we will have 2-3 weeks to fill in. > I think we do fall into those categories and I would suggest this year > we start preparing a bit earlier to improve our chances. Let's try and > coordinate an effort. Maybe start with the people keen on mentoring and > collation of prospective project ideas. Yes! Please try to get some people together, maybe do a monthly/biwkeely mumble chat and get shared pad/thing to easily collaborate ideas. Greetings, Jelle van der Waa
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