Reminder to podlings of how to register ideas for Google Summer of Code. (see below)
It is still not too late! This is a great way to learn how to engage with new contributors to your project, hopefully picking up new committers and fresh code on the way! Just decide on someone from your podling committers to be a GSOC mentor for the student (Note that this "mentor" probably is different from your existing incubator mentors!) - and register some ideas in JIRA using the "gsoc2018" label. If your project is not (yet) using JIRA, you can post the ideas under the COMDEV project including your podling name in the title. See separate email on mentor registration. On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 22:22:33 +0100, Ulrich Stärk <u...@apache.org> wrote: > 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 as soon as > possible but please no later than 2017-01-30: > > 1. understand what it means to be a mentor [2]. > > 2. record your project ideas. > > Just create issues in JIRA, label them with gsoc2018, 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 d...@community.apache.org if you need assistance. > > [4] contains some additional information (will be updated for 2017 shortly). > > 3. subscribe to ment...@community.apache.org; restricted to potential > mentors, meant to be used as a > private list - general discussions on the public d...@community.apache.org > 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 will 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] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/ > [2] http://community.apache.org/guide-to-being-a-mentor.html > [3] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2018ideas > [4] http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
