The Content Project would like to offer our services to this effort. We
could potentially mentor a student working on some coding project in one
of the other projects or communities. Perhaps that student could write
up something on the subject and go through the peer-review process for
an article or presentation. Perhaps a student could work on some
translations of existing articles, etc. We'll be there to help.
Jim
Jim Grisanzio wrote:
hey, guys.
Google has announced its 2006 Summer of Code:
http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html
This is the second summer where Google has engaged student developers
worldwide to participate on a variety of open source projects under this
mentoring program. OpenSolaris has applied to be one of those mentoring
communities. It's a great way for us to contribute to the greater open
source community, while at the same time providing us the opportunity to
meet new developers -- especially students -- in new areas. See the
details (especially question #2) about mentoring:
http://code.google.com/soc/mentorfaq.html
With more than 40 communities and more than 20 projects I think we have
more than enough to offer as this point. I'd like to get a thread
started here for possible project ideas. We need to act quickly if we
want to participate, though.
My initial thought: I think the easiest way to participate is for the
OpenSolaris project owners http://www.opensolaris.org/os/projects to be
mentors (or identify mentors) to these new student developers. Perhaps
we could flush out some ideas in this thread and then the interested
projects/owners can mock up their project pages with a Summer of Code
section with some items the students can work on. We can then add a box
to the front page directing Summer of Code students to those
participating projects.
That part is easy. The question is this, though: are there any
OpenSolaris projects interested in engaging these students in Google's
Summer of code? If so, let's talk about what we could offer. I'll
collect the ideas and feed them into our application process.
Please feel free to forward to any list you think appropriate.
Best,
Jim
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