I can shepherd the GSoC effort for macports. I've gone through the wiki page and made the initial changes for 2008.

http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/wiki/SummerOfCode

The next thing we need to do is to verify which of those tasks are obsolete or completed, and which tasks we should add. If you can be mentor for the project, please add your name to the list and any tasks you can help with.

I'll be working on the application today and tomorrow, so we need to move quickly.

Thanks

-Bill



On Mar 7, 2008, at 11:14 AM, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
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
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