Fantastic --thanks, Uli! Now we wait for Greg. I'll be issuing this announcement early tomorrow morning ET (UTC -5). I presume that's OK with you, yes?
Also, does ComDev have a Twitter handle? Warm regards, Sally [From the mobile; please excuse top-posting, spelling/spacing errors, and brevity] ----- Reply message ----- From: "Ulrich Stärk" <u...@spielviel.de> To: "dev@community.apache.org" <dev@community.apache.org> Cc: "Greg Stein" <gst...@gmail.com>, "pr...@apache.org" <pr...@apache.org>, "Sally Khudairi" <s...@apache.org> Subject: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015 Date: Mon, Mar 16, 2015 04:22 Looks good to me. Thanks a ton Sally! Cheers, Uli > Am 15.03.2015 um 23:13 schrieb Sally Khudairi <s...@apache.org>: > > Hello again! > > Below is the revised version that incorporates your changes, Uli. If you can > please let me know if this meets your approval, I'd appreciate it! > > Warm regards, > 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." > > Students are encouraged to discuss ideas with mentoring organizations and > finalize proposals for projects of interest by the 27 March deadline. ASF > mentors have proposed 129 ideas for Apache projects in Big Data, Cloud, > Enterprise Integration, Enterprise Search, Project Management, Semantic Web & > Linked Data, along with other categories. Students may choose from the Apache > "Ideas Page" at http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas or suggest their own > project for approval. Coding will begin 25 May and end 21 August. > > "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. > > > # # # > > ________________________________ > From: Ulrich Stärk <u...@spielviel.de> > To: Sally Khudairi <sallykhuda...@yahoo.com> > Cc: "dev@community.apache.org" <dev@community.apache.org>; Greg Stein > <gst...@gmail.com>; "pr...@apache.org" <pr...@apache.org>; Sally Khudairi > <s...@apache.org> > Sent: Sunday, 15 March 2015, 17:48 > Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of > Code 2015 > > > > Hi Sally, > > I think they are great as they are. Thanks a lot! > > Cheers, > > Uli > > > > Am 15.03.2015 um 22:37 schrieb Sally Khudairi <sallykhuda...@yahoo.com>: > > > > > Thanks, Uli! >> >> >> I'll incorporate your suggestions and forward the revised draft shortly. >> >> >> How do you feel about your proposed quotes? >> >> >> Chat soon, >> Sally >> >> >> [From the mobile; please excuse top-posting, spelling/spacing errors, and >> brevity] >> >> ----- Reply message ----- >> From: "Ulrich Stärk" <u...@spielviel.de> >> To: <dev@community.apache.org>, "Greg Stein" <gst...@gmail.com> >> Cc: "pr...@apache.org" <pr...@apache.org>, "Sally Khudairi" <s...@apache.org> >> Subject: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code >> 2015 >> Date: Sun, Mar 15, 2015 17:14 >> >> 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 >>>>> >>>
