Re: [Lift] Re: Lift Google Summer of Code?

2010-02-07 Thread Timothy Perrett
It would require one of the committers to essentially act as a mentor - someone 
who knows Lift very well would need to mentor the candidate and dedicate a fair 
amount of time to the program. We looked at doing it last year if memory 
serves... 

Cheers, Tim

On 7 Feb 2010, at 17:29, Peter Robinett wrote:

 Hey Justin,
 
 That sounds like a very cool idea. Do you know what the organization
 has to do?
 
 On Feb 6, 7:23 pm, Justin Reardon justin.rear...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi folks,
 
 I'm a Computer Science student at the University of Waterloo, looking to 
 participate in Google Summer of Code program this spring. Have you given any 
 thought to applying as a mentoring organization this year? I've been playing 
 around with Lift for a while now and its been a delightful change from other 
 web development frameworks I've used. I'd love to spend a summer 
 contributing to the project!
 
 Thanks,
 Justin Reardon
 
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Re: [Lift] Re: Lift Google Summer of Code?

2010-02-07 Thread Justin Reardon
Yes, there were posts mentioning the possibility the last two years even, but 
no one appeared to follow up on them.

Google hasn't got the documentation up for 2010 yet (shortly they say), but 
it's supposed to be pretty much the same as last year. A some point in early 
March interested organizations submit an application to Google describing the 
organization ([1] has complete list). Among other things there needs to be 
someone to act as an administer, people willing to act as mentors, and an 
Ideas list of possible projects.

If the organization gets accepted there is an application period for students 
that should be in late March. Students apply with a project proposal (likely 
based on something in the Ideas list), why the student should get the 
project, qualifications, etc. After the application period the mentoring 
organization gets allocated (at least 1) slots depending on how many students 
applied, ranks the proposals, and matches students with mentors. 

Regarding mentor time the faq estimates ~5 hours a week(see [2]), of course 
this really depends on the project/student.

[1] 
http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc2009/faqs#org_app
[2] 
http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc2009/faqs#mentor_time

On 2010-02-07, at 12:44 , Timothy Perrett wrote:

 It would require one of the committers to essentially act as a mentor - 
 someone who knows Lift very well would need to mentor the candidate and 
 dedicate a fair amount of time to the program. We looked at doing it last 
 year if memory serves... 
 
 Cheers, Tim
 
 On 7 Feb 2010, at 17:29, Peter Robinett wrote:
 
 Hey Justin,
 
 That sounds like a very cool idea. Do you know what the organization
 has to do?
 
 On Feb 6, 7:23 pm, Justin Reardon justin.rear...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi folks,
 
 I'm a Computer Science student at the University of Waterloo, looking to 
 participate in Google Summer of Code program this spring. Have you given 
 any thought to applying as a mentoring organization this year? I've been 
 playing around with Lift for a while now and its been a delightful change 
 from other web development frameworks I've used. I'd love to spend a summer 
 contributing to the project!
 
 Thanks,
 Justin Reardon
 
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Re: [Lift] Re: Lift Google Summer of Code?

2010-02-07 Thread David Pollak
I mentored Greggory Brown (Ruport now Ruby Reports) for GSoC in 2006.  It
was an excellent experience for me.

I would be willing to mentor a single student doing Lift work if I could
time-box it to 3 hours/week and if there was the right chemistry between me
and the student.

I do not have the time to submit Lift itself as a project to GSoC.  If
someone else wants to step up and do the GSoC paperwork, that'd be awesome.

Justin -- please contact me privately so we can set up a time to chat and
see if we get along.

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Justin Reardon justin.rear...@gmail.comwrote:

 Yes, there were posts mentioning the possibility the last two years even,
 but no one appeared to follow up on them.

 Google hasn't got the documentation up for 2010 yet (shortly they say), but
 it's supposed to be pretty much the same as last year. A some point in early
 March interested organizations submit an application to Google describing
 the organization ([1] has complete list). Among other things there needs to
 be someone to act as an administer, people willing to act as mentors, and an
 Ideas list of possible projects.

 If the organization gets accepted there is an application period for
 students that should be in late March. Students apply with a project
 proposal (likely based on something in the Ideas list), why the student
 should get the project, qualifications, etc. After the application period
 the mentoring organization gets allocated (at least 1) slots depending on
 how many students applied, ranks the proposals, and matches students with
 mentors.

 Regarding mentor time the faq estimates ~5 hours a week(see [2]), of course
 this really depends on the project/student.

 [1]
 http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc2009/faqs#org_app
 [2]
 http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc2009/faqs#mentor_time

 On 2010-02-07, at 12:44 , Timothy Perrett wrote:

  It would require one of the committers to essentially act as a mentor -
 someone who knows Lift very well would need to mentor the candidate and
 dedicate a fair amount of time to the program. We looked at doing it last
 year if memory serves...
 
  Cheers, Tim
 
  On 7 Feb 2010, at 17:29, Peter Robinett wrote:
 
  Hey Justin,
 
  That sounds like a very cool idea. Do you know what the organization
  has to do?
 
  On Feb 6, 7:23 pm, Justin Reardon justin.rear...@gmail.com wrote:
  Hi folks,
 
  I'm a Computer Science student at the University of Waterloo, looking
 to participate in Google Summer of Code program this spring. Have you given
 any thought to applying as a mentoring organization this year? I've been
 playing around with Lift for a while now and its been a delightful change
 from other web development frameworks I've used. I'd love to spend a summer
 contributing to the project!
 
  Thanks,
  Justin Reardon
 
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