I did some reading and found that a "mentoring organization" for the GSoC is considered "A group running an active free/open source software project". That seems to imply a core committer would need to be involved. See: http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2009/faqs.html#0_1_org_is_47611255748869674_1
The idea of Wicket participating in GSoC interests me. I work at Georgia Tech Research Institute, which is a professional research arm of Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). We are located on the edge of the Georgia Tech campus in Atlanta, Georgia. We have about 10 co-op students from Georgia Tech working for us each semester. We use all open source software. We have just started using Wicket, Spring, and Brix (CMS based on Wicket and Jackrabbit) on a new project that I'm driving. I have two co-op students helping me out right now. We have existing web applications that use JEE, Struts, YUI, and Ext JS, which we deploy to Tomcat on Red Hat Linux. We plan to migrate those existing applications to Wicket over the next couple of years. Also, we are hiring: http://jobview.monster.com/getjob.aspx?JobID=78669508 Considering our position, I'm wondering if we could be involved in this somehow. Especially if it benefited us, it might be an easy sell to get some of our engineers/scientists involved. -Richard On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 6:12 AM, Martijn Dashorst < martijn.dasho...@gmail.com> wrote: > It seems like a lame proposition to coerce us to do your bidding "just > because you think it is a good idea". You're not the one to tell us > how to spend our personal time, or whether the choices we make on how > to spend our own time is lame or not. > > There's a Wicket Stuff project where anyone can commit, it is dead > simple to setup a public github account, or create a google code > project for any GSoC student and their mentor. There's no reason why > *YOU* can't mentor a student on any project *YOU* think is a valid > asset, and spend *YOUR* time on it. > > Martijn > > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:00 PM, "C. Bergström" > <cbergst...@netsyncro.com> wrote: > > > > btw.. are any of the core devs interested or willing to mentor? Once > again > > it seems a lame excuse to say you're too busy or the various other things > > when this could both give the project good pr and possibly add more > people > > who contribute to the framework. > > > > ./C > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org > > > > > > > > -- > Become a Wicket expert, learn from the best: http://wicketinaction.com > Apache Wicket 1.3.5 is released > Get it now: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/1.3. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org > >
