Just an FYI that I will probably have my student back this year. He doesn't graduate until after summer. That being the case, I'll start thinking of relevant work for him to do.
On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 1:42 AM, Sebastien Goasguen <run...@gmail.com> wrote: > GSoC 2015 is back. > Time to enter your project proposals in jira if you want to mentor. > > Begin forwarded message: > > > From: Ulrich Stärk <u...@apache.org> > > Subject: Google Summer of Code 2015 is coming > > Date: February 2, 2015 5:44:52 PM EST > > To: ment...@community.apache.org > > Reply-To: ment...@community.apache.org > > Reply-To: 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 by no later than > > 2015-02-13 19:00 UTC (applications from organizations close a week later) > > > > 1. understand what it means to be a mentor [2]. > > > > 2. record your project ideas. > > > > Just create issues in JIRA, label them with gsoc2015, 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 if you need assistance. > > > > [4] contains some additional information (will be updated for 2015 > shortly). > > > > 3. subscribe to 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 list as much as possible > > please). Use a recognized address when subscribing (@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 might 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 > > > > P.S.: Except for the private parts (label spreadsheet mostly), this > email is free to be shared > > publicly if you want to. > > > > [1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015 > > [2] http://community.apache.org/guide-to-being-a-mentor.html > > [3] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas > > [4] http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html > > [5] http://s.apache.org/gsoclabels > > > > -- *Mike Tutkowski* *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com o: 303.746.7302 Advancing the way the world uses the cloud <http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play>*™*
