One more thing: do we have a list of Apache projects that will be involved here?
Thanks, Sally >________________________________ > From: Ulrich Stärk <u...@spielviel.de> >To: "pr...@apache.org" <pr...@apache.org>; Sally Khudairi <s...@apache.org> >Cc: "dev@community.apache.org" <dev@community.apache.org> >Sent: Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 8:11 >Subject: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code >2013 > >Recycling last years email on the topic. All dates and links updated. It would >be cool if we could >get this out asap. Is there anything else you need? > >Uli > >-------- Original Message -------- >Subject: Apache Software Foundation accepted as a mentoring organization for >Google Summer of Code 2012 >Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:21:40 +0100 >From: Ulrich Stärk <u...@spielviel.de> >To: pr...@apache.org >CC: dev@community.apache.org > >Hey Sally & Co., > >this year we won't forget to provide you with some infos on our GSoC >endeavours. Yesterday, we have >been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013 >[1],[2]. This means that >over the summer, our committers will mentor students that are sponsored by >Google and will be >working on our projects. The program helps us not only to get some code >written but also to >introduce students into open source development and hopefully recruit some new >long-term committers. >More information on the program is available at [3]. Students are now >encouraged to discuss ideas >with the respective projects and begin drafting proposals. An extensive list >of already existing >project ideas is available at [4]. The actual application phase is from April >24 until May 3, coding >will take place from June 17 to September 23. See [5] for the detailed >timeline. > >Can you please run any press release past us (dev@community.apache.org) before >publishing? > >Thanks, > >Uli > >[1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013 >[2] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/apache >[3] >http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2013/help_page >[4] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2013ideas >[5] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2013 > > > > >