Great, I'll draft a few ideas. Thanks, Raymond
On Mar 4, 2012, at 9:42 PM, Luciano Resende wrote: > It's that time again for us to build a list of project ideas and start > attracting students for GSoC. If you have specific ideas, please go > ahead and create a JIRA with the appropriate tag. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Ulrich Stärk <u...@apache.org> > Date: Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 9:01 AM > Subject: Google Summer of Code 2012 upcoming > To: p...@apache.org > Cc: d...@community.apache.org > > > Hello PMCs, > > Google Summer of Code is the ideal opportunity for you to attract new > contributors to your projects. > > If you want to participate with your project you NOW need to > > - understand what it means to be a mentor [1] > - propose your project ideas. Just label your issues with gsoc2012 in JIRA and > they will show up at [2]. See also [1]. > - subscribe to code-awa...@apache.org (restricted to potential > mentors, meant to be used > as a private list - general discussions on the public > d...@community.apache.org list as much as possible please) > > The ASF will apply as a participating organization with GSoC, your project > doesn't need to do that. See [3] for more information. Note that the ASF isn't > accepted yet, nevertheless you *really* should start recording your ideas now. > > Last year we had 38 students completing GSoC successfully, some of which are > now active contributors to the projects they worked on. Let's make this a > success again this year! > > On behalf of the GSoC 2012 admins, > > Uli > > [1] http://community.apache.org/guide-to-being-a-mentor.html > [2] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2012tasks > [3] http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html > > > -- > Luciano Resende > http://people.apache.org/~lresende > http://twitter.com/lresende1975 > http://lresende.blogspot.com/