Thanks, Uli. I did post about it in our weekly news round-up. Happy to work with you on a press release. Who is the ASF lead on GSoC. You? Who from ComDev will be at ApacheCon? Are you planning to do something special there? Cheers,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: Thursday, 12 March 2015, 13:31 Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015 And again recycling this. I think we missed 2014 so I want to make sure to get an announcement out this year.
Cheers, Uli On 2013-04-09 14:11, Ulrich Stärk wrote: > 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 2015 > [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 March > 16 until March 27, coding > will take place from May 25 to August 21. 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/gsoc2015 > [2] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/apache > [3] > http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2015/help_page > [4] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas > [5] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2015 > >