Thanks for everyone's feedback to the idea of supporting GSOC 2011. I have received emails from several people interested in becoming a mentor. As a next step, please list yourself on the GSOC 2011 Wiki page at http://wiki.openstack.org/Project List along with your project ideas/descriptions. From here, we as a community can review all the ideas submitted and determine if we have quality projects that make sense for the community. If so, I will go ahead and submit the application. If not, we can postpone until next year.
However, there is interest in having OpenStack participate as I already have students who have contacted me wanting to review our proposals and participate. Let's see what ideas we come up with and then make a final decision on go/no-go based on the projects listed. Thanks. Rick Clark wrote: > In order to be successful, quite a bit of thought and planning needs to > be put into a GSOC project. I've seen other open source projects look > bad by not being organized enough. This needs to be way more put > together, and thought out before I would want to see openstack's name on > it. In my experience, GSoC can easily backfire on unprepared organizations. And I think we are a bit young, as an organization, to successfully participate. The deadlines are just around the corner, not sure rushing our first participation is a good idea. I'd rather discuss of a full plan in one of the 2011 design summits, to have a well-organized effort for GSoC 2012. On Feb 4, 2011, at 2:37 PM, Stephen Spector wrote: > OpenStack Developers: > > Now that you have a few days off (just kidding) to relax from the release of > Bexar, I wanted to bring up a new topic for your consideration. The Google > Summer of Code (http://code.google.com/soc/) will take applications from open > source communities starting Feb 28 - March 11 to participate in the program. > OpenStack would submit a list of projects for students to complete with a > pre-determined mentor for each project to support the development effort. The > project list is published by Google and any student wishing to participate > with OpenStack would apply for a specific project. The mentors of each > feature would select the student they wish to work with and notify Google. > The student and mentor would then begin work on the feature with the > expectation that the code can be written, tested, and submitted back to the > community by the end of the Summer. The program is global and students and > mentors may not necessarily ever meet. > > Google does pay the students $5,000 USD to participate and we would get $500 > toward our OpenStack community. Mentors are not paid but are GREATLY > appreciated in their efforts to support the students and community. All funds > generated for the community would go directly to an OpenStack Developer event > to cover costs. > > To join, we must have mentors in place who are willing to work with a student > that we select in writing the code for a specific feature/portion of > OpenStack. These mentors are required to put in more than just the occasional > email so there is a commitment on the part of mentors to ensure the student > is successful in writing the code and getting it submitted to the community. > For more information about being a mentor, > http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/AdviceforMentors. > > I believe this Google program is an excellent idea and a great way for > OpenStack to get some code written by incredibly smart people who will either > end up working for one of the companies involved in the project or simply > become an independent developer within OpenStack. I have started the > paperwork to submit in late February for OpenStack to participate but will > not submit the application unless I have interest and confirmation from > developers within OpenStack to be mentors. Even if we only ran 2 students > this summer, I believe this would be a great way for OpenStack to reach out > to a global community of developers interested in supporting open source > software. > > Please let me know your thoughts if you would like to be a mentor. Thanks. > > > Stephen Spector - OpenStack Community Manager > PHONE: Office: +1 (512) 539-1162 - Mobile: +1 (210) 415-0930 > ONLINE INFO: stephen.spec...@openstack.org \\ OpenStack Blog \\ > @opnstk_com_mgr > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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