In a nutshell: * GCC has been accepted for GSoC * Potential mentors: Please register * April 22 to May 3: Students application period * May 27: Announcement of the accepted projects * June 17 to September: GSoC coding period
We are gland to announce that GCC has been accepted as organization for Google's Summer of Code 2013 (GSoC 2013) program. (417 open-source projects have applied, 177 have been accepted of which 40 are new to GSoC.) Summer of Code is a program sponsored by Google in which students are paid to contribute to open-source projects; eligible are students (18 years old or older and enrolled [undergraduated to Ph.D.] on/before May 27). This will be GCC's 8th year of participation. For more information, see https://developers.google.com/open-source/soc/
Student applications will be accepted from Monay, April 22 to Friday, May 3, 2013. For project ideas, see http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/SummerOfCode
Each student will work with a mentor of the project. As we've done in past years, we need to have a set of mentors who are prepared to work with students. We would like to encourage any interested experienced GCC developer to become a mentor for the project. Being a mentor does not require that you actually work with a student: we normally have many more available mentors than we do students. All mentor volunteers (and only mentor volunteers) will be able to see and vote on all student project proposals.
This year I have taken over the role as GSoC organization admin for GCC from Diego, who did a great job in the last years. As in the past, Ian will be GCC's backup admin. We will accept as a mentor anybody who is listed as a maintainer of some part of GCC in the MAINTAINERS file. If you are not a maintainer but still want to be a mentor, we are open to being convinced.
To become a mentor, you need to go http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013 and register. If you are a returning mentor, you can use the same login as you did in the past. Then go to the organization page for GCC at http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/gcc - and apply as mentor. For documentation on using GSoC's webpage, go to http://en.flossmanuals.net/melange/ and for the mentoring guide, see http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCMentoring/
Thanks, Tobiasand Ian
