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The Apache Software Foundation Community Development Project Welcomes Student
Proposals for Google
Summer of Code 2013
Hundreds of students mentored in “The Apache Way” of Open Source community
leadership
Forest Hill, MD –9 April 2013– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)'s Community
Development (ComDev)
project today announced its acceptance into the Google Summer of Code (GsoC) as
a mentoring
organization for the eighth consecutive year.
The ComDev team helps newcomers learn about the ASF's projects, governance, and
activities, and
guides them in becoming part of the meritocratic, all-volunteer Apache
community.
Established in 2005, the Google Summer of Code offers student developers from
around the word
stipends to write code for various Open Source software projects over a three
month period.
The ASF has actively participated in GSoC since the program's inception,
mentoring 30-45 students
each year, and providing exposure to real-world software and community
development “The Apache Way”.
Countless GSoC students mentored by the Apache community continue to be
long-term code committers on
a variety of Apache projects. Some active program participants have even been
elected as members of
the ASF.
This year, dozens of Apache projects have committed to mentoring GSoC students. They include
Accumulo, Airavata, Axiom, Bloodhound, CloudStack, CouchDB, Crunch, Giraph,
Gora, Hama, Hive, Isis,
Jena, Lenya, Lucene, Mahout, ManifoldCF, Mesos, Nutch, ODE, OpenMeetings,
OpenOffice, Pig, Rat, SIS,
Sling, Solr, Stanbol, Tika, VXQuery, Wookie, XalanJ, and XercesJ.
For more information on Apache Community Development and to get involved with
Apache projects for
GSoC, visit http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html
Details on the Google Summer of Code is available at
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013
About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees nearly one hundred
fifty leading Open
Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server — the world's most popular Web
server software.
Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way", more than 400
individual Members
and 3,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available
enterprise-grade software,
benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are
distributed under the
Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists,
mentoring initiatives,
and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo.
The ASF is a US
501(3)(c) not-for-profit charity, funded by individual donations and corporate
sponsors including
AMD, Basis Technology, Citrix, Cloudera, Facebook, Go Daddy, Google, HP,
Hortonworks, Huawei, IBM,
InMotion Hosting, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, PSW Group, SpringSource/VMware,
WANdisco, and Yahoo!.
For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/ or follow @TheASF on Twitter.
"Apache", "Accumulo", "Apache Accumulo", "Airavata", "Apache Airavata", "Axiom",
"Apache Axiom",
"Bloodhound", "Apache Bloodhound", "CloudStack", "Apache CloudStack", "CouchDB",
"Apache CouchDB",
"Crunch", "Apache Crunch", "Giraph", "Apache Giraph", "Gora", "Apache Gora", "Hama",
"Apache Hama",
"Hive", "Apache Hive", "Isis", "Apache Isis", "Jena", "Apache Jena", "Lenya",
"Apache Lenya",
"Lucene", "Apache Lucene", "Mahout", "Apache Mahout", "ManifoldCF", "Apache ManifoldCF",
"Mesos",
"Apache Mesos", "Nutch", "Apache Nutch", "ODE", "Apache ODE", "OpenMeetings",
"Apache OpenMeetings",
"OpenOffice", "Apache OpenOffice", "Pig", "Apache Pig", "Rat", "Apache Rat", "SIS",
"Apache SIS",
"Sling", "Apache Sling", "Solr", "Apache Solr", "Stanbol", "Apache Stanbol", "Tika",
"Apache Tika",
"VXQuery", "Apache VXQuery", "Wookie", "Apache Wookie", "XalanJ", "Apache XalanJ",
"XercesJ",
"Apache XercesJ", and "ApacheCon" are registered trademarks or trademarks of
the Apache Software
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property of their respective owners.
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Contact:
Sally Khudairi
Vice President
The Apache Software Foundation
pr...@apache.org
+1 617 921 8656
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*From:* Sally Khudairi <sallykhuda...@yahoo.com>
*To:* Ulrich Stärk <u...@spielviel.de>; "dev@community.apache.org"
<dev@community.apache.org>
*Cc:* "pr...@apache.org" <pr...@apache.org>
*Sent:* Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 8:42
*Subject:* Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer
of Code 2013
Perfect. Thank you, Uli!
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*From:* Ulrich Stärk <u...@spielviel.de>
*To:* dev@community.apache.org
*Cc:* Sally Khudairi <s...@apache.org>; "pr...@apache.org"
<pr...@apache.org>
*Sent:* Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 8:36
*Subject:* Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google
Summer of Code 2013
Here's your list:
Accumulo, Airavata, Axiom, Bloodhound, CloudStack, Lenya, OpenOffice,
ManifoldCF, CouchDB,
Crunch,
Giraph, Gora, Hama, Hive, Isis, Jena, Lucene, Mahout, Mesos, Nutch,
Ode, Openmeetings, Pig, Rat,
SIS, Sling, Solr, Stanbol, Tika, VXQuery, Wookie, XalanJ, XercesJ
It isn't exclusive, these are simply the projects that have submitted
project ideas. Every
student
is free to approach any project and propose an idea (which is also
highly encouraged).
Cheers,
Uli
On 09.04.2013 14:20, Ulrich Stärk wrote:
> Any project can be involved. The ones listed at [4] have explicitly
submitted ideas for
students but
> that doesn't mean students can't approach projects not mentioned
there. I'll compile a
list from [4]
> for you.
>
> Uli
>
> On 09.04.2013 14:16, Sally Khudairi wrote:
>> One more thing: do we have a list of Apache projects that will be
involved here?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sally
>>
>>
>>
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>> *From:* Ulrich Stärk <u...@spielviel.de
<mailto:u...@spielviel.de>>
>> *To:* "pr...@apache.org <mailto:pr...@apache.org>"
<pr...@apache.org
<mailto:pr...@apache.org>>; Sally Khudairi <s...@apache.org
<mailto:s...@apache.org>>
>> *Cc:* "dev@community.apache.org
<mailto:dev@community.apache.org>"
<dev@community.apache.org <mailto: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 <mailto:u...@spielviel.de>
<mailto:u...@spielviel.de <mailto:u...@spielviel.de>>>
>> To: pr...@apache.org <mailto:pr...@apache.org>
<mailto:pr...@apache.org
<mailto:pr...@apache.org>>
>> CC: dev@community.apache.org <mailto:dev@community.apache.org>
<mailto:dev@community.apache.org <mailto: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
<mailto:dev@community.apache.org>
>> <mailto:dev@community.apache.org
<mailto: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
>>
>>
>>
>>
