> Op 6 februari 2017 om 9:51 schreef Giles Sirett <giles.sir...@shapeblue.com>: > > > All > See below - Google Summer of code 2017 isn't far away. > Previously, we've had a number of project committers who have come to us > through a GSOC project >
Do we have small sized projects / ideas ready to be submitted for GSOC? > Become a mentor isn't something to be taken lightly but I would encourage as > many of our community as possible to consider it - it will hopefully help wth > the next generation of people excited to work on cloudstack Did this for the Ceph project. It is a lot of work. Wido > > > > > Kind Regards > Giles > > > giles.sir...@shapeblue.com > www.shapeblue.com > 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London WC2N 4HSUK > @shapeblue > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ulrich Stärk [mailto:u...@apache.org] > Sent: 03 February 2017 19:51 > To: ment...@community.apache.org > Subject: Google Summer of Code 2017 is coming > > 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 by no later than 2017-02-09: > > 1. understand what it means to be a mentor [2]. > > 2. record your project ideas. > > Just create issues in JIRA, label them with gsoc2017, 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 2017 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 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 > > P.S.: Except for the private parts (label spreadsheet mostly), this email is > free to be shared publicly if you want to. > > [1] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/ > [2] http://community.apache.org/guide-to-being-a-mentor.html > [3] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2017ideas > [4] http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html > [5] http://s.apache.org/gsoclabels > >
