Hello again --we are live: -PR Newswire http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-apache-software-foundation-community-development-project-welcomes-student-proposals-for-google-summer-of-code-2013-202143091.html -ASF Foundation Blog http://s.apache.org/AVV -@TheASF Twitter feed https://twitter.com/TheASF/status/321653839973466112
...as well to announce@ and our dedicated media/analyst list. This is also on the apache.org homepage. Thanks, everyone, for your help! -Sally ----- Original Message ----- > From: Ulrich Stärk <u...@spielviel.de> > To: dev@community.apache.org > Cc: Sally Khudairi <sallykhuda...@yahoo.com>; Sally Khudairi > <s...@apache.org>; "pr...@apache.org" <pr...@apache.org> > Sent: Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 11:08 > Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of > Code 2013 > > 12 seems good. Let's wait a few more minutes if anybody wants to add > something. > > Uli > > On 09.04.2013 16:57, Sally Khudairi wrote: >> 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 >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >>> >>> >>> >
