Re: Summer of Code 2009

[Waylan Limberg]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Jacob Kaplan-Moss  wrote:
>
> We received about twenty proposals, but there was broad agreement
> among the mentors that six in particular really stood out.
>

And yet I only count 5. Looks like you missed:

Alexander Gaynor, "Multiple Database Support in Django"
Mentor: Russell Keith-Magee

In any event, congrats to all.

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Summer of Code 2009

[Jacob Kaplan-Moss]

Hi folks --

Google's just officially announced the list of accepted projects for
Summer of Code 2009, so that means I can now, too.

We deliberately set the bar *very* high this year, and I was gratified
to see our prospective students rise to the occasion. Many thanks to
all who applied!

We received about twenty proposals, but there was broad agreement
among the mentors that six in particular really stood out.

So, with no further ado, I'm happy to announce Django's Summer of Code
2009 projects are:

Honza Král, "Model aware validation"
Mentor: Joseph Kocherhans

Kevin Kubasik, "Upgrade the Awesomness Quotient of the Django Test
Utils and Regression Suite"
Mentor: Eric Holscher

Christopher Cahoon, "Improved HTTP and WSGI Support"
Mentor: Malcolm Tredinnick

Zain Memon, "UI improvements for the admin interface"
Mentor: Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Marc Albert Garcia Gonzalo, "Implementation of additional i18n features"
Mentor: Jannis Leidel

Congratulations all!

If you'd like to read the details of any of these projects, please
check out http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/django.
One of the requirements this year is weekly check-ins from each
student, so you'll be seeing the first of these later this week.

I'm really excited about these projects; this is shaping up to be the
best Summer of Code yet!

Jacob

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Summer of Code 2009: students wanted!

[Jacob Kaplan-Moss]

Hi folks --

It's that time of year again: Google's announced the Summer of Code 2009, and
Django is again one of the participating projects. Jannis Leidel will be
running things this year, and I'll be backing him up.

For those who aren't aware: Summer of Code is Google's program to pay students
to work on open source projects over the summer. I can't think of a better
summer job if you're a student and want to get involved in open source. For
more details about the program in general, check out Google's FAQ:
http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc2009/faqs.

If you're interested in working on Django as part of GSoC please read this
whole email. It's quite long, and I apologize for that, but we've learned over
past years a lot about what makes a GSoC project succeed or fail. Last year
was our most successful year to date, and I'm determined to make this year
even better.

Important dates
---

The whole timeline can be found in the FAQ, but there's a couple of important
dates you should be aware of right now:

The student application period opens March 23 and ends April 3. There's no
prizes for getting your applications in first, but that April 3 deadline is a
*hard* deadline: no applications filed late will be considered. This means
you've got two weeks to prepare your application, so the time to start is
*right now*.

Picking a project
-

[Thanks to Malcolm for some of the content below; I shameless ripped some
stuff off from an email he wrote yesterday.]

The first thing you need to do is choose something to work on. Hopefully if
you're reading this you've already got an idea; if not, there's some ideas at
http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/SummerOfCode2009.

However, if you just pick something there and throw together a quick
application, you're going to get rejected immediately. There's a lot more to
choosing a project that just throwing something together.

We've found over the past years that the pickier we are about application
quality, the better the final projects are. Because we want success this year,
we're going to be exceedingly picky about only accepting good applications, so
it's vital that you put your best foot forward. Here's how:

Think of the process as applying for a job. You're trying to convince us that
you:

(a) understand the problem you're attempting, and

(b) have some chance of achieving something realistic in the 12 week
period you've got to work.

This can be hard, particularly for people haven't been involved in Django
development before -- some projects require a history of involvement before
applying; we let anybody apply. So it's really *now* that you want to start
getting involved. You have to put in a little bit of work to work out how your
problem might be approached, or what the current problems are. Don't just pick
something from the ideas page -- you could also look through Trac and view the
tickets grouped by component and see if there's a bunch of things in a similar
area that suggests something needing more holistic attention.

Most importantly, though, when you have some kind of idea, start a discussion
on django-developers. This will let us help you understand what you're up
against, and it'll help us see that you've got the knowledge to tackle the
problem. Last year, to pick one example, Nicolas Lara, who helped implement
aggregates support, was involved in quite a long discussion about it leading
up to the project start. This meant that by the time he filed his application,
he knew the problem space very well, and had a well-reasoned proposed
solution.

Timing is a little tricky this year, because a bunch of the core developers
are heavily focused on getting Django 1.1 out. So mention in the post that
it's a SoC discussion, and we'll make sure to give it some attention. (If you
don't mention that, somebody will say "wait until 1.2").

The applications that have been most successful in the past -- in terms of
producing working code at the end of the period, rather than just being
accepted -- are those where the applicants have engaged a bit ahead of time to
see if their ideas stand up to review and/or tweak those ideas a bit.

Once you've had one of these discussions, *then* you're in a position to write
an application that can lay out your cunning plan and point to a discussion
showing it kind of holds up under scrutiny. We have much more confidence
voting for a student who's done the preparation than somebody with no history
whatsoever. Many SoC students starting to get into Django, which means you
have to do some work here and get a feeling for what you're up against.

In short, the application isn't a "convince us to let you work on this for
the summer" as much as "convince us you understand the problem you're
proposing to work on and that your solution has a chance of working and being
accepted by the core body of developers".

Our goal this year is for *every sin

Re: Google Summer of Code 2009

[Alex Gaynor]

2009/3/14 Nicolas Lara 

> Here's the wiki article:
> http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/SummerOfCode2009
>
>
> 2009/3/12 Raj 
>
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> On Mar 6, 9:13 pm, Jacob Kaplan-Moss 
>> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 4:07 AM, Petar Marić 
>> wrote:
>> > > Will Django be participating in the Google SoC event this year?
>> >
>> > We'll be applying, yes.
>>
>> Did Django apply for GSoC 2009(seems like Google is already accepting
>> Org Applications
>> till 13th this month)? If so can some one kindly link me to the Ideas
>> page?
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Nicolas Lara
> Linux user #380134
> http://nicolas-lara.blogspot.com/
> Public key id: 0x152e7713 at http://keyserver.noreply.org/
>
>
> >
>
As an additional note Jannis Leidel is running it for Django this year and
he's submitted our official application.

Alex

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Re: Google Summer of Code 2009

[Nicolas Lara]

Here's the wiki article: http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/SummerOfCode2009


2009/3/12 Raj 

>
> Hello all,
>
> On Mar 6, 9:13 pm, Jacob Kaplan-Moss 
> wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 4:07 AM, Petar Marić 
> wrote:
> > > Will Django be participating in the Google SoC event this year?
> >
> > We'll be applying, yes.
>
> Did Django apply for GSoC 2009(seems like Google is already accepting
> Org Applications
> till 13th this month)? If so can some one kindly link me to the Ideas
> page?
>
> >
>


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Re: Google Summer of Code 2009

[Raj]

Hello all,

On Mar 6, 9:13 pm, Jacob Kaplan-Moss 
wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 4:07 AM, Petar Marić  wrote:
> > Will Django be participating in the Google SoC event this year?
>
> We'll be applying, yes.

Did Django apply for GSoC 2009(seems like Google is already accepting
Org Applications
till 13th this month)? If so can some one kindly link me to the Ideas
page?

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Re: Google Summer of Code 2009

[Jacob Kaplan-Moss]

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 4:07 AM, Petar Marić  wrote:
> Will Django be participating in the Google SoC event this year?

We'll be applying, yes.

Jacob

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Google Summer of Code 2009

[Petar Marić]

Will Django be participating in the Google SoC event this year?

Regards,
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