I'm fine with whatever schedule suits you best ;) And no, to my knowledge, ComDev does not have its own Twitter handle.
Cheers, Uli On Mon, March 16, 2015 09:29, Sally Khudairi wrote: > 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 >>>>> >>>>
