Today the application window for organizations to apply for the 2011 Google Summer of Code opened. At the present time, I have not heard from anyone that is prepared to commit themselves as a mentor. There have been two individuals who indicated that they might consider it.
Now is the time to step up. I would like to see a minimum of four committed mentors by this Friday, 4 March 2011, if OpenAFS is going to submit an application. Please send e-mail to [email protected] if you are willing to volunteer. Jeffrey Altman On 1/25/2011 6:43 PM, Jeffrey Altman wrote: > At the Linux Conference in Australia, Google has announced that Summer > of Code 2011 will be taking place for its seventh year. > > http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2011/01/google-summer-of-code-announced-at-lca.html > > For the last three Summers OpenAFS has been accepted as a mentoring > organization. http://www.openafs.org/gsoc.html Google Summer of Code > benefits OpenAFS both by producing code for the project but more > importantly by introducing students to the joys of developing open > source and in particular, OpenAFS. > > There are many more organizations that wish to be accepted to Summer of > Code than there are organizational slots. A strong application is > backed by a deep pool of mentors and project ideas for the students to > work on. The deadline for applying to GSoC 2011 is 11 March 2011. > > As those that have mentored in the past can attest, mentoring is a > significant time commitment starting during the student application > period the week of 28 March 2011 and ending on 26 August 2010 if you are > lucky enough to end up with a student. A mentor should expect to spend > ten to fifteen hours a week working with her/his student and the other > accepted students. > > Projects should be challenging enough to peak the students interest but > not so large that they cannot be accomplished by a mentored student > during the coding period 23 May to 22 August. > > While it is not required that prospective students have prior experience > using OpenAFS, it certainly would not hurt. If you work at a college or > university that deploys OpenAFS, take a trip over to the local Computer > Science department and ask faculty members to discuss Google Summer of > Code with their classes and participation with OpenAFS in particular. > Both undergraduate and graduate students are eligible to participate. > Accepted students will receive a stipend of 5500 USD for successfully > completing the program. > > If you are interested in mentoring a student or have a project idea, > please send e-mail to [email protected]. > > Jeffrey Altman >
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