Thank you Sally, my two comments are inline.
Cheers, Uli On 2015-03-15 17:37, Sally Khudairi wrote: > Hi everyone --as promised, below is the draft announcement. > > Please review and forward any additions/corrections no later than 5PM ET > tomorrow (Monday) in > order for us to announce on Tuesday. Should we be able to finalize before > then (by 9PM ET TODAY), > we can go live Monday morning if you'd like. Also, if someone can please > update the ASF > boilerplate at http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/apache > to the one at the > bottom of the draft announcement (below), that would be great. Will do. > > Thanks so much, Sally > > = = = > > > DRAFT :: NOT FOR DISSEMINATION > > The Apache Software Foundation Accepted as a Google Summer of Code 2015 > Mentoring Organization > > > Hundreds of students mentored in "The Apache Way" of community-driven > development since the > program's inception in 2005. > > Forest Hill, MD –17 March 2015– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the > all-volunteer > developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects > and initiatives, > announced today that it has been accepted as a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) > mentoring > organization for the 11th consecutive year. > > The Google Summer of Code program offers student developers stipends to write > code for various > Open Source projects over a three month period. This year, students will be > paired with mentors > from 137 Open Source, free software, and technology-related groups that > include CERN, GNU > Project, KDE, MIT Media Lab, WikiMedia Foundation, and many more. > > The ASF was amongst the initial 39 organizations selected to participate in > the very first GSoC > in 2005, and has participated every year since. At the ASF, the GSoC program > is overseen by the > Apache Community Development project, which comprises volunteers who help > guide newcomers to The > Apache Software Foundation, provide insight and advice on The Apache Way of > meritocratic > development, including how to contribute to Apache projects and to the Open > Source community > at-large. > > "Over the summer, Apache Committers will mentor students that are sponsored > by Google and will be > working on many of our projects," said Ulrich Stärk, Vice President of > Community Development at > the ASF. "The program helps us to not only get some great code written, but > also to introduce > students into Open Source development and hopefully recruit some new > long-term Committers." > > Now through 27 March, students are encouraged to discuss ideas with mentoring > organizations and > begin drafting proposals for those projects of interest. Coding will begin 25 > May and end 21 I'd make it more clear that March 27 is the student application *deadline*. To me "begin drafting" sounds like they could start only then (but then I'm not a native speaker so it could totally be OK to write it like that). > August. Thus far, 33 ideas have been proposed for Apache projects in Big > Data, Cloud, Enterprise > Integration, Enterprise Search, Project Management, Semantic Web & Linked > Data, along with other > categories. The complete Apache "Ideas Page" is at http://s.apache.org/cDg That sounds a bit as if students have already submitted ideas for projects, which is not the case. We (our mentors) have created a list of project ideas (the official URL is http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas) from which students may choose (or better yet, come up with something on their own). Currently that list has 129 entries. > > "GSoC gives students the chance to work on industry-leading Open Source > projects, collaborate > with diverse communities, and gain real world experience related to their > academic pursuits," > added Stärk. "We are proud to have mentored so many talented students over > the years, and > furthered our mission of providing software products for the public good. > It's a rewarding > experience both for the students and the Apache community at-large." > > Since the program's inception, GSoC has brought together over 8,500 > successful student > participants from over countries and over 8,000 mentors from 109 countries > worldwide to produce > over 55 million lines of code. > > "Being accepted once again as a Google Summer of Code mentoring organization > reinforces The > Apache Software Foundation's leadership in community-driven development," > said ASF Vice Chairman > Greg Stein, who, in 2005 co-created the GSoC program while working at Google. > "Hundreds of > students have been mentored in 'The Apache Way' --many have continued on to > become long-term code > committers on a variety of Apache projects, with some active program > participants elected as ASF > Members." > > Information on the ASF's participation in Google Summer of Code is available > at > http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html > > About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the > all-volunteer Foundation > oversees more than 350 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 500 individual Members and 4,500 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(c)(3) > charitable organization, > funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including Budget > Direct, Cerner, Citrix, > Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Hortonworks, HP, IBM, InMotion Hosting, > iSigma, Matt > Mullenweg, Microsoft, Pivotal, Produban, WANdisco, and Yahoo. For more > information, visit > http://www.apache.org/ or follow https://twitter.com/TheASF > > © The Apache Software Foundation. "Apache", "Apache HTTP Server", and > "ApacheCon", are trademarks > of The Apache Software Foundation. All other brands and trademarks are the > property of their > respective owners. > > > # # # > > [MEDIA CONTACT:SALLY] ________________________________ > > From: Sally Khudairi <s...@apache.org> To: Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> Cc: > Ulrich Stärk > <u...@spielviel.de>; "pr...@apache.org" <pr...@apache.org>; > "dev@community.apache.org" > <dev@community.apache.org> Sent: Saturday, 14 March 2015, 18:44 Subject: Re: > ASF accepted as a > mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015 > > > > Thanks, Greg! > > That works --better to be a bit wordy and clear vs. brief and vague <g> > > We can always write "QUOTE," said Greg Stein, ASF Vice Chairman (and > co-creator of the GSoC > program, while working at Google in 2005). > > > Now for the quote itself... I'll put that in the draft that I'll be sending > over later. > > Cheers & chat soon, Sally > > > > > > ________________________________ From: Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> To: > Sally Khudairi > <s...@apache.org> Cc: Ulrich Stärk <u...@spielviel.de>; "pr...@apache.org" > <pr...@apache.org>; > "dev@community.apache.org" <dev@community.apache.org> Sent: Saturday, 14 > March 2015, 18:36 > Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of > Code 2015 > > > > Sure, that sounds great! … are you looking for something like "co-creator of > the GSoC program, > while working at Google in 2005" ?? That's a bit of a mouthful, but is that > the direction you're > thinking? > > And please go ahead an draft up a quote. I'm not quite sure the angle you're > looking at, so best > if you go first :-) > > Thx, -g > > > > > On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 5:13 PM, Sally Khudairi <s...@apache.org> wrote: > > Greg, >> >> I'd like to put a placeholder for a quote for you in the announcement as >> well (the lead quote >> will be coming from Uli). >> >> How would you like to have your attribution described in relation to GSoC? >> "ASF Vice Chairman >> and @@WHATEXACTLY" >> >> Of course, I'll be happy to get a quote directly from you (vs. having to >> de-Sally-fy my >> proposed blurb) :-) >> >> If you don't want to be quoted, that's OK; I can use Ross as backup. >> >> Thanks so much, >> >> Sally >> >> ________________________________ From: Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> To: >> Sally Khudairi >> <s...@apache.org> Cc: Ulrich Stärk <u...@spielviel.de>; "pr...@apache.org" >> <pr...@apache.org>; >> "dev@community.apache.org" <dev@community.apache.org> Sent: Friday, 13 March >> 2015, 17:22 >> >> Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of >> Code 2015 >> >> >> >> The very first year was 2005. Thus, 2015 would be the 11th GSoC. >> >> As one of the two people to launch/create GSoC, you can call me >> authoritative on the dates :-P >> >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Sally Khudairi <s...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> Whaaaaat? >>> >>> Really? I had it in the "Did You Know?" section last week as 10th also. >>> >>> >>> AND, more importantly, if my calculations are off, then in >>> >>> https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/date/20141119 >>> >>> >>> the 2013 entry as "eighth consecutive year" is wrong too. >>> >>> Who has the correct count? It really is 11? Not that I don't trust you, I >>> now am feeling >>> quite lost. >>> >>> Cheers, Sally >>> >>> ________________________________ From: Ulrich Stärk <u...@spielviel.de> To: >>> "pr...@apache.org" >>> <pr...@apache.org> Cc: dev@community.apache.org; Sally Khudairi >>> <s...@apache.org> Sent: Friday, >>> 13 March 2015, 17:09 >>> >>> Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of >>> Code 2015 >>> >>> >>> Hey Sally, >>> >>> I just read the announcement and it says "The ASF has been accepted as a >>> Google Summer of >>> Code mentoring organization for the 10th consecutive year". >>> >>> If I'm not mistaken it's the 11th year ;) >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Uli >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 2015-03-12 18:42, Sally Khudairi wrote: >>>> 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 >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>
