Re: [Soc-coordination] DebConf travel / GSoC student payments?

2015-12-17 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 17/12/15 20:59, Michael Schultheiss wrote: > Daniel Pocock wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA256 >> >> >> >> On 02/11/15 05:24, Michael Schultheiss wrote: >>> Apologies for the delays in payments. I should have the paym

Re: [Soc-coordination] DebConf travel / GSoC student payments?

2015-12-17 Thread Daniel Pocock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 02/11/15 05:24, Michael Schultheiss wrote: > Apologies for the delays in payments. I should have the payments > processed this week and payments shoud be received in approximately > 1-2 weeks. > Hi Michael, I had another query about this

[Soc-coordination] DebConf15 reimbursement status?

2015-10-22 Thread Daniel Pocock
Hi, I've had several queries from my student about the travel reimbursement, are the GSoC admins or the DebConf people responsible for arranging these payments to students? Regards, Daniel ___ Soc-coordination mailing list

Re: [Soc-coordination] Outreachy / OPW starts 22 September?

2015-09-25 Thread Daniel Pocock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 21/09/15 17:54, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 04:27:47PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: >> >> >> The next Outreachy / OPW starts 22 September: >> >> https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreachy >>

[Soc-coordination] Outreachy / OPW starts 22 September?

2015-09-15 Thread Daniel Pocock
The next Outreachy / OPW starts 22 September: https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreachy Is there any decision about Debian participation? The program admins asked to be contacted by organizations before 21 September: https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreachy/Admin/InfoForOrgs#Action As with previous rounds

[Soc-coordination] all students and mentors - IRC meeting

2015-07-20 Thread Daniel Pocock
We've just had a brief discussion on #debian-soc about trying to organize an IRC meeting of all students, especially those attending DebConf One topic for the meeting to discuss will be PGP keys, this way everybody can learn about how we use PGP in Debian and be ready for the keysigning party

[Soc-coordination] deadline tommorrow! Re: Call for Debian projects and mentors in the Google Summer of Code 2015

2015-02-19 Thread Daniel Pocock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 There are just three ideas there so far, including the one I just added myself - for anybody who hasn't participated in GSoC before, I personally feel there are some really good things about this program both for free software and for Debian and it

[Soc-coordination] feedback for GSoC 2015

2014-08-23 Thread Daniel Pocock
Hi all, During GSoC, I've been writing down some of the ideas that may help people to prepare for 2015. I've now published that on my blog: http://danielpocock.com/getting-selected-for-google-summer-of-code-2015 If people have other suggestions or ideas, please feel free to share them in the

Re: [Soc-coordination] week 12

2014-08-10 Thread Daniel Pocock
Juliana, maybe you can run another blog about this progress, include a screenshot of the new chat functionality with a couple of active tabs and ask people to come on IRC to discuss testing. debrtc.org is a test domain I registered - the official site (where the final version of this will be

Re: [Soc-coordination] week 9

2014-07-21 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 18/07/14 23:18, Juliana Louback wrote: Status report - WebRTC portal for the Debian community Week 6 This week began with a video conference hosted by Yehuda Korotkin, a tech professor at one of Israel's leading colleges for women. During this conference, Shauna Gordon-McKeon and I

Re: [Soc-coordination] DebConf Registration

2014-05-04 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 04/05/14 13:51, Joseph Bisch wrote: If we emailed Sylvestre Nicolas with our intention to attend DebConf are we all set, or do we still need to register on the DebConf website? You should register through the official site as well https://summit.debconf.org/debconf14/registration/

Re: [Soc-coordination] [Debconf-team] GSoC students / DebConf14

2014-04-22 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 22/04/14 08:18, Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 11:28:33PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Daniel Pocock dan...@pocock.com.au [2014-04-21 22:37 +0200]: It would be really useful to understand if there are options similar to last year for GSoC students to attend

Re: [Soc-coordination] Project Idea fot GSoC

2014-03-21 Thread Daniel Pocock
will write then in the debian-devel list. Regards, José Luis Sanroma 2014-03-17 14:52 GMT+01:00 Daniel Pocock dan...@pocock.com.au mailto:dan...@pocock.com.au: Hi José, Thanks for your email about this The most critical thing for you now

Re: [Soc-coordination] GSOC2014: Introduction

2014-03-20 Thread Daniel Pocock
Hi Saagar, The deadline is tomorrow Please read the application instructions carefully and make sure you register and submit your proposal through the Debian wiki and http://www.google-melange.com before the deadline We can discuss the coding tasks over the next few days, you will have a few

Re: [Soc-coordination] Project Idea fot GSoC

2014-03-17 Thread Daniel Pocock
Hi José, Thanks for your email about this The most critical thing for you now is to find a mentor - if the Debian GSoC admins agree, the mentor could be somebody employed in your campus. Every project proposed to Google needs to have both a mentor and a student. On the problem and solution

Re: [Soc-coordination] Mentoring: what next?

2014-03-08 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 08/03/14 18:31, b...@debian.org wrote: Hi, I submitted a project proposal [1] in the wiki a while ago but I haven't seen any news. Apparently we were selected as a mentoring organization, but the wiki is out of date and I don't know if there's anything I should do to promote the

[Soc-coordination] Two projects added

2014-02-09 Thread Daniel Pocock
I've added two project ideas https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2014/Projects#SummerOfCode2014.2FProjects.2FRecursively_building_Java_dependencies_from_source.Recursively_building_Java_dependencies_from_source

[Soc-coordination] Debian / GSoC 2014?

2014-02-03 Thread Daniel Pocock
The organisation application process opens today with a February 14 deadline Has any decision been made about whether Debian will participate this year? Are the same admin team still delegated by the DPL or does it need to go back to him to make a fresh delegation for 2014?

[Soc-coordination] webcam interviews for students?

2014-02-03 Thread Daniel Pocock
Some projects are using a softphone/webcam to interview the students. Anyhow, just as with anything in Debian, I feel it is really important that the students' first impression of Debian is using Debian-based technology and not a non-free softphone that they may have used in other situations.

[Soc-coordination] OPW and soc-coordination list

2013-10-30 Thread Daniel Pocock
I just came across this recently: http://lists.debian.org/debian-women/2013/09/msg00058.html but only a long time after reading about it elsewhere and on the wiki The communication about this round of OPW appears to have bypassed soc-coordination@, even though this list has been used for

[Soc-coordination] 2014 announcement from Google

2013-10-08 Thread Daniel Pocock
Google's announcement about 2014 is very interesting, it appears they are starting much earlier than this year. The calendar suggests they will only confirm organisations around March/April though In my experience, we had the most intense interest from students after Debian was confirmed as an

Re: [Soc-coordination] [GSoC Students] Pencils down date and other information

2013-09-23 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 16/09/13 00:42, Sukhbir Singh wrote: Hi everyone, First of all: thank you for sending your reports regularly! A couple of quick announcements: - As per the GSoC calendar [0], September 16 is the suggested pencils down date. It is recommended that you spend the last week to scrub code,

Re: [Soc-coordination] DebConf 13 GSoC BoF scheduled 2013-08-16 at 16:30 local time

2013-08-15 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 15/08/13 01:00, Nicolas Dandrimont wrote: * David Bremner da...@tethera.net [2013-08-13 14:29:29 +0200]: Daniel Pocock dan...@pocock.com.au writes: I'm not there myself every day and most of the other co-mentors on our projects are not planning to attend DebConf. However, Catalin

Re: [Soc-coordination] GSoC meetup at DebConf?

2013-08-13 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 13/08/13 11:02, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: On 13/08/2013 10:59, Daniel Pocock wrote: Is there any plan for any semi-formal gathering of those involved in GSoC? Also, has anybody compiled a list/timetable of presentations proposed by GSoC students? Maybe students could add links from the GSoC

Re: [Soc-coordination] GSoC Mentors: GSoC Mentor Summit 2013

2013-07-03 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 02/07/13 22:16, Sukhbir Singh wrote: Hi everyone, We had six mentors who were interested in going to the mentor summit: Daniel, Olly, Stefano, Sylvestre, Paul and Luke. As discussed in the #debian-soc-mentors IRC channel, the lucky mentors who get to go are Daniel and Sylvestre. Luke is

[Soc-coordination] Next steps for mentors?

2013-05-05 Thread Daniel Pocock
Hi, This is the first year I volunteer to support Debian's GSoC and OPW programs, so I don't know all the details about how people like to do things Now that we have applications, can anybody comment on some of the following: - is there any policy document (from the Debian admins, not Google)

[Soc-coordination] OPW / GSoC confusion, deadlines, wiki edits

2013-05-01 Thread Daniel Pocock
I notice that the Summer of Code page on the wiki doesn't mention OPW anywhere, and even though the application process is similar, the OPW deadline is only published on the OPW page, whereas the SoC page publishes the GSoC calendar. Maybe it will be helpful to publish a joint calendar.

Re: [Soc-coordination] GSoC 2013 - Debian Android App

2013-04-28 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 28/04/13 14:08, Catalin Usurelu wrote: Hi, My name is Catalin Usurelu, I'm a second year CS student, and I am interested in the project entitled Debian Android App. I tried contacting the mentor mentioned on the official ideas page, but I haven't received any reply. Is the project still

Re: [Soc-coordination] GSoC Mentors and Students: information for the student application period

2013-04-23 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 23/04/13 08:49, Nicolas Dandrimont wrote: Fellow GSoC'ers, The student application period is one of the busiest periods of GSoC. Here are some pointers to make the experience bearable! Thanks for this summary, I put up a blog entry yesterday and emailed it to all the students who

Re: [Soc-coordination] [Presentation] Edouard Carre

2013-04-23 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 23/04/13 16:06, Edouard Carré wrote: I look for the Improving PKI on Debian subject. Why this subject ? Because I have a server at home and I work to secure it. I create a Certificate Authority for fun and I use OpenSSL for HTTPS or OpenVPN. I work a lot on Debian and I would like to help,

Re: [Soc-coordination] Bits from the GSoC admins: important information for mentors

2013-04-15 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 15/04/13 14:22, David Bremner wrote: David Bremner brem...@debian.org writes: == Pre-Application Contribution == This year each potential student should be asked to make a small contribution related to the project they are applying to work on. This will require coordination with the

[Soc-coordination] upstream involvement

2013-04-10 Thread Daniel Pocock
Hi, I just want to get some feedback on the extent that we can involve upstreams, either formally (as named mentor) or informally (e.g. collaborating through upstream mailing list, contributing to upstream source tree). I've proposed three project areas and I've already had enquiries from some

Re: [Soc-coordination] upstream involvement

2013-04-10 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 10/04/13 09:41, Nicolas Dandrimont wrote: Hi! * Daniel Pocock dan...@pocock.com.au [2013-04-10 08:56:04 +0200]: Hi, I just want to get some feedback on the extent that we can involve upstreams, either formally (as named mentor) or informally (e.g. collaborating through upstream mailing

[Soc-coordination] GSoC / endorsement / Lumicall

2013-03-11 Thread Daniel Pocock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, I understand that the GSoC team wanted requests for endorsement earlier than this, but I hope you will consider this request anyway Specifically, I'd like to propose that Lumicall is supported directly by GSoC. Lumicall is actually