Note that when Haskell.org didn't make it into gsoc last year, they successfully organized a similar program through private donations. While one hopes that Clojure will be accepted into gsoc, consider having a similar course of action as Plan B.
-- Dan Burton On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 10:31 PM, Daniel Solano Gómez <cloj...@sattvik.com> wrote: > Hello, all, > > We now have less than a week to prepare our application for Google Summer > of Code 2017 <https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/>, a program where > Google pays students from around the world to work on open source > projects. Clojure has successfully participated 2012–2015, and we would > love to return for a fifth time. As a community, we have benefitted > significantly over the years with amazing work on projects like Clojure in > Clojure, ClojureScript, Clojure on Android, Incanter, and more. And it's > not just the projects that have benefitted, many of Clojure/GSoC alumns > continue to contribute to the community and are often speakers at > conferences. > > In order to participate again this year, we need your help; we need project > ideas <http://clojure-gsoc.org/project-ideas.html>. A great project > ideas page is a key part in having a successful application, and having > many members from within the community participate as potential mentors > would really boost our application. At this point, you are not committing > to anything, we just need some great ideas. > > This year, we are trying something new: We are hosting our project ideas > on GitHub > <https://github.com/clojars/clojure-gsoc-2017/blob/master/project-ideas.md> > and you can submit your idea just using a few lines of Markdown in a pull > request. If you'd rather not do that, you can post to the mailing list > with [GSoC Idea] in the subject and we'll add it for you. Also, you can > submit ideas in the #gsoc channel in the Clojurians slack. > > > You can also help review our application > <http://clojure-gsoc.org/application.html> and profile > <http://clojure-gsoc.org/profile.html> pages, and we would appreciate any > input > > Finally, a big thanks to all of the administrators and volunteers who have > helped Clojure's GSoC in years past. > > Thank you very much for your time and idea. > > Sincerely, > > Daniel > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
