On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 03:20:15PM -0500, David Nalley wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Joe Brockmeier <j...@zonker.net> wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > Google has announced its dates [1] for Summer of Code. We've touched on > > this previously [2] and there was some concern it wasn't a great use of > > time. > > > > However, I thought I'd bring it up in case there's any interest in > > trying to participate. (There's no guarantee that we'd be accepted in > > any case, though Google is good about 'rotating' orgs so that it's not > > always the same mentoring organizations every year.) I'd be happy to do > > the legwork to get us signed up for GSoC, but we'd need a few developers > > to help mentor actual projects. > > > > If we decide not to do it, that's fine too - but I wanted to discuss it > > so it's conscious decision rather than an "oops, we missed the deadline" > > thing. > > > > Doesn't the ASF itself act as the 'org'? They at least did last year. See > http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html > > --David >
The announcement was forwarded to dev@community.a.o recently [1]. I'm not sure if anyone picked it up and started working on ASF sponsorship or not. [1] http://markmail.org/thread/5k6sgij2nnhip2zm