Hi, Andreas,Mehdi Thanks for the response.
It seems hard to find a mentor. Anyway I hopefully continue my effort on the project. I would very much appreciate it if someone would like to help me by being a mentor and it will be remarkable experience for both of us as well as our community. On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 3:02 AM, Andreas Lehmkuehler <andr...@lehmi.de>wrote: > Hi, > > > Am 06.03.2012 21:24, schrieb mehdi houshmand: > > Hi Andreas, >> >> Does the mentor need to be a PDFBox committer? If not, I wouldn't mind >> putting myself forward as a candidate... Of course, that is if no one >> else does. >> > Thanks for the offer, but AFAIKT it's not possible. According to [1] the > mentor has to be an ASF member or committer. > > > Mehdi >> >> On 6 March 2012 18:43, Andreas Lehmkuehler<andr...@lehmi.de> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Am 29.02.2012 03:50, schrieb Tharaka Nayanajith Wijebandara: >>> >>> Hi, >>>> >>>> >>>> I'm university student in Sri Lanka and a newbie to Open Source >>>> Development. I would like to participate for Google Summer of Code 2012 >>>> with an Apache Project. Since I'm familiar with Java and I have used >>>> PDFBox >>>> Library for my academic project, I like to develop new feature for >>>> PDFBox >>>> as my GSoC project. First of all I want to know that is it possible to >>>> participate for GSoC 2012 with PDFBox project? >>>> >>>> >>>> If it is yes, I want help from PDFBox development community to select >>>> appropriate PDFBox task for GSoC. >>>> >>> >>> There is a lot to do and I'm sure that some of those jobs should qualify >>> as >>> GSoC task. >>> >>> >>> If you have any idea about good project or advice for me, please reply >>>> to >>>> this. >>>> >>> >>> You will need a mentor and I'm not sure if you will find one among our >>> ranks. I'd like to support you, but I can't do it due to personal >>> reasons. >>> >>> Anybody else? >>> >>> >>> BR >>> Andreas Lehmkühler >>> >> > BR > Andreas Lehmkühler > > [1] > http://community.apache.org/**guide-to-being-a-mentor.html<http://community.apache.org/guide-to-being-a-mentor.html> > -- Thanks & Regards, Tharaka Wijebandara, Faculty of Information Technology, University of Moratuwa.
