Hello, I am going to submit an application on behalf of The MacPorts Project for the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program 2011. I think most of you will already have heard of it. Google pays students to work on various Open Source projects over the summer. It is also a good start for students with Open Source development. MacPorts is taking part in this program every year since 2007.
See also <http://code.google.com/soc/> for more background information. First, we need to apply to Google to be accepted as an mentoring organization. Some prodecure as last year, as most questions remained the smae. Here is the wiki page with the questions Google published and our answers from last year (nevertheless they could be improved): http://trac.macports.org/wiki/SummerOfCodeOrgApplication Please stop by the wiki page and fill in answers or correct/rewrite existing ones. My language and grammar is not the best and a native speaker can probably help here. I hope that collaborating will bring out a good application with which we will be able to participate in GSoC again. The deadline for this application is *this Friday, March 11th*, but I would like to submit a first draft around Monday/Tuesday. When we get accepted and get students interested in working for us, each student is supposed to work closely with a mentor who should guide the student through their project and the Open Source world. A mentor should have knowledge of the project and will communicate with the student over the summer to watch the progress and work out any problems. So, we need mentors from our MacPorts community who are willing to care for a student. Please participate! Also, if you have a specific idea what could be improved in MacPorts, but you never had the time to do it yourself, please put a proposal on our ideas page. I already cleared up the list with the new ideas we gathered a few days ago. We need mentors for these, of course. Ideas page: http://trac.macports.org/wiki/SummerOfCode I will stand up to be the organization administrator again as I already did this last year. But we also need a backup administrator as a requirement from Google. Bill, would you have time to do this again? Anyone else would like to volunteer? If you have more questions regarding GSoC 2011 for MacPorts, please do not hesitate to contact me. Rainer PS: Sorry if I caused a déjà vu in someone's head, this mail is mainly identical with what I sent last year :-P _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev