Hi, all. After talking with Alison Dalgity at GCI and Dennis Wuthrich
at Farallon Geographics, we have a plan to apply for the Google Summer
of Code program. If Arches is acccepted, Google will pay a student (or
students) to spend a significant amount of time this summer improving
Arches.
Here's how it works in a nutshell:
We (the Arches Project) apply as a mentoring organization. We'll come
up with a list of summer-sized improvements each of which a student
could plausibly accomplish. If we are accepted into GSoC, student
applicants look at that list and apply to us to work on one or another
of those problems. We accept one or more of those applicants, and then
mentor them over the summer as they work. Google pays the mentoring
organization a small fee per student, but pays the student significantly
more -- actually enough to live on, unless the student lives in, say,
San Francisco :-).
So, next steps:
1. Dennis and the gang at Farallon are trawling through the bug
tracker, the roadmap, and this list's archives, to find suitable
items to propose for students to work on in the summer.
(If you have ideas to suggest, please follow up in this thread!)
2. I'm doing the bureaucracy of applying to GSoC as a mentoring
organization. Ideally the Arches Project itself can be the
mentoring organization; if Google needs it to be a legal entity,
then I guess we'll use either GCI or Farallon Geographics -- will
cross that bridge if/when we come to it.
Pretty soon there will be another step for us all:
3. When student applications open in early March, help us spread the
word on campuses around the world! The more applicants we get, the
higher the quality of the work done this summer.
I'm in the midst of the organization application process right now, and
will post back here when it's done.
Best,
-Karl
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