Hi Davor, you were faster than me: I was just preparing an e-mail about GSoC ;)
+1 Regards JB On 01/22/2018 08:37 AM, Davor Bonaci wrote: > This is a great way to grow the community. If you are interested in mentoring > students contributing to Beam, please apply! > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: *Ulrich Stärk* <u...@apache.org <mailto:u...@apache.org>> > Date: Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 1:22 PM > Subject: Google Summer of Code 2018 is coming > To: ment...@community.apache.org <mailto:ment...@community.apache.org> > > > Hello PMCs (incubator Mentors, please forward this email to your podlings), > > Google Summer of Code [1] is a program sponsored by Google allowing students > to > spend their summer > working on open source software. Students will receive stipends for developing > open source software > full-time for three months. Projects will provide mentoring and project ideas, > and in return have > the chance to get new code developed and - most importantly - to identify and > bring in new committers. > > The ASF will apply as a participating organization meaning individual projects > don't have to apply > separately. > > If you want to participate with your project we ask you to do the following > things as soon as > possible but please no later than 2017-01-30: > > 1. understand what it means to be a mentor [2]. > > 2. record your project ideas. > > Just create issues in JIRA, label them with gsoc2018, and they will show up at > [3]. Please be as > specific as possible when describing your idea. Include the programming > language, the tools and > skills required, but try not to scare potential students away. They are > supposed > to learn what's > required before the program starts. > > Use labels, e.g. for the programming language (java, c, c++, erlang, python, > brainfuck, ...) or > technology area (cloud, xml, web, foo, bar, ...) and record them at [5]. > > Please use the COMDEV JIRA project for recording your ideas if your project > doesn't use JIRA (e.g. > httpd, ooo). Contact d...@community.apache.org > <mailto:d...@community.apache.org> > if you need assistance. > > [4] contains some additional information (will be updated for 2017 shortly). > > 3. subscribe to ment...@community.apache.org > <mailto:ment...@community.apache.org>; restricted to potential mentors, meant > to > be used as a > private list - general discussions on the public d...@community.apache.org > <mailto:d...@community.apache.org> list as much as possible > please). Use a recognized address when subscribing (@apache.org > <http://apache.org> or one of your alias addresses on > record). > > Note that the ASF isn't accepted as a participating organization yet, > nevertheless you *have to* > start recording your ideas now or we will not get accepted. > > Over the years we were able to complete hundreds of projects successfully. > Some > of our prior > students are active contributors now! Let's make this year a success again! > > Cheers, > > Uli > > [1] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/ > <https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/> > [2] http://community.apache.org/guide-to-being-a-mentor.html > <http://community.apache.org/guide-to-being-a-mentor.html> > [3] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2018ideas <http://s.apache.org/gsoc2018ideas> > [4] http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html > <http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html> -- Jean-Baptiste Onofré jbono...@apache.org http://blog.nanthrax.net Talend - http://www.talend.com
