Dennis, per our conversation earlier today: I've made some progress in our online application, and it turns out they do indeed want the "ideas list" at this stage -- that is, the ideas for what students could do this summer with Arches.
Google gives a good description of this at https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2014/help_page#3._What_is_an_Ideas_list . I'll paste it here for convenience: | An Ideas list should be a list of suggested student projects. This | list is meant to introduce contributors to your project's needs and | to provide inspiration to would-be student applicants. It is useful | to classify each idea as specifically as possible, e.g. "must know | Python" or "easier project; good for a student with more limited | experience with C++." If your organization plans to provide a | proposal template for the students, it would be good to include it | on your Ideas list. | | Keep in mind that your ideas list should be a starting point for | student proposals; we've heard from past mentoring organization | participants that some of their best student projects are those that | greatly expanded on a proposed idea or were blue-sky proposals not | mentioned on the ideas list at all. At a minimum, all the ideas on | your Ideas List should include the expected outcome of the project, | a potential mentor, the skills and/or languages required to complete | the project, and a general "difficulty" level. A link to a bug | tracker for your open source organization is NOT an ideas list. | "Placeholder" or inaccessible ideas pages will be grounds for an | automatic rejection for participation in Google Summer of Code 2014. | | You can check out the Ideas list for KDE | (http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2011/Ideas) for Google Summer of Code | in 2011 to get an idea of what we’re looking for in an ideas list. I assume that Farallon can come up with the ideas list over the next couple of days. The best place to post it would be either at a URL like http://archesproject.org/gsoc/2014 or (better yet) in a wiki page in BitBucket where students could potentially edit or propose other ideas. Either way, the Ideas List page should include a link to this discussion group. It is typical for student applicants to ask questions on the project's mailing list while they're considering applying. A couple of other bits of administrivia: 1) We'll need at least one more person besides me to create an organization member account -- should be someone from Farallon, I think. Create that account at "Begin Registration" here: https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014 ...then please tell me the username created (e.g., I'm "kfogel"), so I can name that person as the Backup Administrator in the organizational application form (which is a whole separate thing from the individual org member form). 2) I'm registerign an IRC channel on the Freenode.net network, #arches, so there's a place for real-time communications between students and mentors. (The application asks about this, and it's a good idea.) That's all for now; will follow up here as I come across other things. Best, -Karl -- -- To post, send email to archesproject@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe, send email to archesproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more information, visit https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Arches Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to archesproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
