Ack. Thanks, Uli. Any other comments? Do you still want to go live at 12Noon-ish ET?
If I get the final signoff soon, I might be able to get it out at 11.30am. Cheers, Sally [From the mobile; kindly excuse spelling/spacing/auto-correct anomalies] ----- Reply message ----- From: "Ulrich Stärk" <u...@spielviel.de> To: "Sally Khudairi" <s...@apache.org> Cc: "Sally Khudairi" <sallykhuda...@yahoo.com>, "dev@community.apache.org" <dev@community.apache.org>, "pr...@apache.org" <pr...@apache.org> Subject: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013 Date: Tue, Apr 9, 2013 10:42 AM Looks fine to me except for two small things. Comments inline. Uli On 09.04.2013 16:14, Sally Khudairi wrote: > Hi everyone --I've drafted up an announcement that I can send out by 12 Noon > ET today, if not sooner. > > Please review the draft below and forward any corrections/additions no later > than 11.15AM ET. > > Thanks for this, > Sally > > ...also, we need to update http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html :^) On it. Thanks for the reminder. > > = = = > > 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. Make clear that this list isn't exclusive. Maybe "They include but are not limited to..."? > > The ComDev team invite GSoC students to propose application ideas directly > with all Apache > project(s) of interest no later than Sunday, 21 April 2013. The ASF's more > than 100 Top-Level > Projects and nearly three dozen initiatives in the Apache Incubator are > listed at > http://www.apache.org/ and http://incubator.apache.org/ respectively. "The ComDev team recommends GSoC students to discuss application ideas directly with all Apache project(s) of interest before the official start of the application phase on Monday, 22 April 2013." > > 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 > Foundation in the United States and/or other countries. All other brands and > trademarks are the > property of their respective owners. > > # # # > > Contact: > Sally Khudairi > Vice President > The Apache Software Foundation > pr...@apache.org > +1 617 921 8656 > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > *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! > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > *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 > >> > >> > >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> *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 > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > >
