Hi everybody, First of all, MANY THANKS to everybody who is offering projects and willing to co-/mentor this year. We are getting the projects listed earlier than in the past years, and we are confident this will help us to attract more interested students this year.
If you will like to mentor a project and you haven't drafted it yet, please hurry up! Google will review the mentoring applications next week and showing that we have a solid list of projects helps to get accepted. We have drafted a student application template [1] that all students should follow. If you have any special requirement (such as asking the student applying to send you a small patch as part of their application [2]), please add it in your project description in the projects page [3]. Once the student application deadline period is over, we'll have to select which students will be working with us this summer; of course, this is limited by the number of students Google will agree to fund. The procedure from last year was allowing every mentor to select the student they preferred from all the applications they got for their proposed projects or not selecting any of the students if they weren't fully happy. Later, the GSoC Debian administrators decided which projects were getting the slots given by Google. We would like to continue following this procedure this year too. Finally, we would like to make public that we vouched for the LibreCAD project to become mentoring organization in the GSoC after a request of Scott Howard, one of the LibreCAD maintainers in Debian. [1]: http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode/StudentApplicationTemplate [2]: http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2012/Projects#Provide_an_alternative_to_libstdc.2B-.2B-_with_libc.2B-.2B- see requirement [3]: http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2012/Projects _______________________________________________ Soc-coordination mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/soc-coordination
