On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 02:35:02PM +0530, Rohit Yadav wrote: > In my past experience the role of project admin for GSoC project would > be the most challenging. > To get started we need to setup a wiki page explaining how we want to > define our participation, what are the rules for students to submit > their applications. For example it's a very common practice that every > participating student should submit some patch or do some work as a > qualification task. Another important important task is to evangelize > the project among students so they know CloudStack exists. For > example, we tried to do one for VLMC [1] (but failed to attract any > student). Lastly, every participating project gets no. of slots (no. > of students that project can have) which is proportional to no. of > application (more of less) that project gets. After getting selected > as a project and getting no. of slots it's up to the project admin to > select proposed project/student and their mentor. > > If we serious, we can get started by evangelizing our project and work > on a wiki on which we propose certain ideas and mentors, but students > would actually propose their ideas [1]. > > [1] http://wiki.videolan.org/SoC_2012#VLMC > > Regards. > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Nitin Mehta <nitin.me...@citrix.com> wrote: > > +1. > > I would love to participate as well. > > > > On 14/02/13 9:21 AM, "Rohit Yadav" <bhais...@apache.org> wrote: > > > >>On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 1:45 AM, 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. > >> > >>+1 I want to help. > >> > >>Regards. > >> > >>> > >>> 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. > >>> > >>> [1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2013 > >>> [2] http://markmail.org/thread/mpukxgs2a3lqgt7a > >>> > >>> Best, > >>> > >>> jzb > >>> -- > >>> Joe Brockmeier > >>> j...@zonker.net > >>> Twitter: @jzb > >>> http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ > > >
It sounds like there are at least three potential mentors willing to help. Rohit or Joe, do you want to follow up with the dev@community list to see if ASF is going to try to participate this year? Perhaps they will at a top level, and we can be part of that? In fact, we probably can only do it if the ASF does it as an org. -chip
