I have added myself to the "willing to mentor" paragraph. I the next week I will try to help with the cleanup/update of the templates.
On 12 February 2013 00:02, Aaron Meurer <asmeu...@gmail.com> wrote: > So Google has announced Google Summer of Code 2013. Here's the > timeline: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2012. > We need to have our org application and ideas page ready by March 9, > which is sooner than it sounds. > > The ideas page is at > https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-2013-Ideas, the org > application is at > https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-2013-Organization-Application, > and the student application template is at > https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-2013-Application-Template. > So far, they are just copies of last year's stuff. So we need to go > through the ideas page and remove any ideas that are no longer > relevant, and also add some new ones. If someone wants to attempt an > organizational cleanup of the page as well, that would be great too. > We also need to go through the organization application and student > template and update stuff. We won't know the actual questions until > February 27 when the application period starts, but in the past they > have been almost exactly the same. Any help here is greatly > appreciated. > > Now, to the main issue. Who is willing to mentor this year? If you > are willing, please add your name to the bottom of the ideas page. > It's OK if you are only able to mentor certain projects. Just note > that. Even if you are on the fence, add your name. The more potential > mentors we have, the better it looks to Google when they are reading > our application. When it comes down to it, you won't have to mentor > anybody unless you want to. > > If you've participated as a student before, I encourage you to > consider mentoring. You may also apply as a student again if you > want. > > To the people who helped review applications last year, are there any > changes you would like to see to the application template this year? I > know that there was a session at last year's mentor summit about this, > which Matthew, GIlbert, and Stefan attended. It would be great if you > guys could review the template with that session in mind. > > To anyone who is interested in applying to Google Summer of Code as a > student, I recommend you read through > https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-2013-Application-Template. > Then, introduce yourself on this list (if you haven't already), and > get started on fulfilling your patch requirement. You should also > start discussing what idea(s) you are are interested in. We look > forward to meeting you. > > Aaron Meurer > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
