Gah! If it's me or nobody, I'll do it. :-) We really shouldn't let the opportunity just slip through our fingers. Hey, Jumpy, where are you? :-)
- Jordan On Mar 7, 2008, at 8:38 AM, James Berry wrote: > I haven't heard back from anybody regarding this plea/opportunity. > > I don't have time to shepherd GSoC this year. If no body steps up to > do so, or to be mentors, I'm going to let this opportunity slide by. > Deadline for us to apply to Google, with projects in hand, is next > Wednesday, March 12. > > Anybody? > > James > > On Mar 4, 2008, at 8:27 AM, James Berry wrote: > >> Thanks to everybody who pitched ideas for GSoC 2008. >> >> Now the rubber needs to meet the road. We need: >> >> - Somebody to head up our GSoC 2008 effort (get us signed up with >> Google, document the proposed projects, etc). >> - And committed mentors for any projects. >> >> Volunteers? >> >> As Paul Guyot points out, one thing we found last year was that >> google seems to allocate project funding to a project based on the >> total number of student applications. So a project that gets >> applications from 50 students is likely to be allocated more student >> slots than a project that gets only 3 student applications. The >> number of student applications is probably guided in part by several >> factors: promotion and appeal to the student community; number and >> appeal of project proposals; etc. >> >> James >> >> >> >> On Feb 29, 2008, at 3:48 PM, James Berry wrote: >> >>> I'm writing to attempt to gauge interest in whether and how MacPorts >>> should participate in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for 2008. See >>> http://code.google.com/soc/2008/ >>> . >>> >>> You might be inclined to address any of the following questions: >>> >>> - Do you feel MacPorts should participate in GSoC 2008? >>> - Are there particular MacPorts projects you'd like to suggest? >>> - Are you willing to be a GSoC mentor? >>> - Would you be interested, as a student, in participating in a GSoC >>> project for MacPorts? >>> >>> GSoC pays students a wage for the summer to work on open source >>> projects, and also a stipend to the project for each student >>> project. >>> >>> If interested, we need to move very quickly. As the Google GSoC FAQ >>> says: >>> >>> "We'll begin accepting applications from open source mentoring >>> organizations on Monday, March 3, 2008; we'll stop accepting >>> organization applications on Wednesday, March 12th." >>> >>> Your feedback is welcome >>> >>> James >>> _______________________________________________ >>> macports-dev mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev >> > > _______________________________________________ > macports-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
