On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 2:20 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 11:18:02AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > TL;DR: I'm looking for volunteers that will act as Debian Project > > liaisons (or "admins") for the Google Code In initiative [1]. Deadline > > for project applications is November 1st; we'll miss it unless we have > > the volunteers before that date. Feel free to volunteer either on > > -project or by mailing me at [email protected]. > > We've got four volunteers for the task (all Cc:-ed): > > - Gergely Nagy > - Sukhbir Singh > - Bastian Blank > - Laszlo Boszorme > > I'm just doing the introductions here, as I don't have much of > experience myself with GCI. I suggest using this list for coordination > of Debian participation in GCI, as we did in the past. > > It'd be great if you people could get in touch with Debian's admin of > GCI past year, to learn from past experience. IIRC, the admins back then > were Ana and Arthur (both Cc:-ed), while Sylvestre kicked-in later on > for GSOC. > > As a complete outsider, I think we should ensure that we get a Debian > press release / news item out of this to call for student applications > when the student application period will start. > > Also, as I mentioned in the call for volunteers, I think Debian needs a > general list of "easy hacks" to advertise permanently, even outside GCI: > it is a great way to attract new people in a Free Software project. It'd > be great if, as a side-effect of GCI participation this year, we will > manage to establish social and technical mechanisms to maintain and > advertise such a list. > > Good luck! > Cheers. > > Hi all, I am willing to "take the lead" in terms of navigating the GCI-specific processes and paperwork so that others can focus on the task creation and rating and other interruption-driven stuff, which as everyone must have understood by now, is quite a lot of sustained work. Are you motivated? :) -Arthur
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