Thanks Henry, it's great to have students working on some cool ideas, will try to draft some idea in JIRA soon.
Regards Luke Best Regards! --------------------- Luke Han 2015-02-04 0:43 GMT+08:00 Henry Saputra <[email protected]>: > FYI > > Google summer of code is coming =) > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Ulrich Stärk <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 2:44 PM > Subject: Google Summer of Code 2015 is coming > To: [email protected] > > > Hello PMCs (incubator Mentors, please forward this email to your podlings), > > Google Summer of Code [1] is a program sponsored by Google allowing > students to spend their summer > working on open source software. Students will receive stipends for > developing open source software > full-time for three months. Projects will provide mentoring and > project ideas, and in return have > the chance to get new code developed and - most importantly - to > identify and bring in new committers. > > The ASF will apply as a participating organization meaning individual > projects don't have to apply > separately. > > If you want to participate with your project we ask you to do the > following things by no later than > 2015-02-13 19:00 UTC (applications from organizations close a week later) > > 1. understand what it means to be a mentor [2]. > > 2. record your project ideas. > > Just create issues in JIRA, label them with gsoc2015, and they will > show up at [3]. Please be as > specific as possible when describing your idea. Include the > programming language, the tools and > skills required, but try not to scare potential students away. They > are supposed to learn what's > required before the program starts. > > Use labels, e.g. for the programming language (java, c, c++, erlang, > python, brainfuck, ...) or > technology area (cloud, xml, web, foo, bar, ...) and record them at [5]. > > Please use the COMDEV JIRA project for recording your ideas if your > project doesn't use JIRA (e.g. > httpd, ooo). Contact [email protected] if you need assistance. > > [4] contains some additional information (will be updated for 2015 > shortly). > > 3. subscribe to [email protected]; restricted to potential > mentors, meant to be used as a > private list - general discussions on the public > [email protected] list as much as possible > please). Use a recognized address when subscribing (@apache.org or one > of your alias addresses on > record). > > Note that the ASF isn't accepted as a participating organization yet, > nevertheless you *have to* > start recording your ideas now or we might not get accepted. > > Over the years we were able to complete hundreds of projects > successfully. Some of our prior > students are active contributors now! Let's make this year a success again! > > Cheers, > > Uli > > P.S.: Except for the private parts (label spreadsheet mostly), this > email is free to be shared > publicly if you want to. > > [1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015 > [2] http://community.apache.org/guide-to-being-a-mentor.html > [3] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas > [4] http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html > [5] http://s.apache.org/gsoclabels >
