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Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:42:31 -0500
From: Chip Childers <chip.childers@sungard.com>
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Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Google Summer of Code?
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On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 02:35:02PM +0530, Rohit Yadav wrote:
> In my past experience the role of project admin for GSoC project would
> be the most challenging.
> To get started we need to setup a wiki page explaining how we want to
> define our participation, what are the rules for students to submit
> their applications. For example it's a very common practice that every
> participating student should submit some patch or do some work as a
> qualification task. Another important important task is to evangelize
> the project among students so they know CloudStack exists. For
> example, we tried to do one for VLMC [1] (but failed to attract any
> student). Lastly, every participating project gets no. of slots (no.
> of students that project can have) which is proportional to no. of
> application (more of less) that project gets. After getting selected
> as a project and getting no. of slots it's up to the project admin to
> select proposed project/student and their mentor.
> 
> If we serious, we can get started by evangelizing our project and work
> on a wiki on which we propose certain ideas and mentors, but students
> would actually propose their ideas [1].
> 
> [1] http://wiki.videolan.org/SoC_2012#VLMC
> 
> Regards.
> 
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Nitin Mehta <Nitin.Mehta@citrix.com> wrote:
> > +1.
> > I would love to participate as well.
> >
> > On 14/02/13 9:21 AM, "Rohit Yadav" <bhaisaab@apache.org> wrote:
> >
> >>On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 1:45 AM, Joe Brockmeier <jzb@zonker.net> wrote:
> >>> Hey all,
> >>>
> >>> Google has announced its dates [1] for Summer of Code. We've touched on
> >>> this previously [2] and there was some concern it wasn't a great use of
> >>> time.
> >>>
> >>> However, I thought I'd bring it up in case there's any interest in
> >>> trying to participate. (There's no guarantee that we'd be accepted in
> >>> any case, though Google is good about 'rotating' orgs so that it's not
> >>> always the same mentoring organizations every year.) I'd be happy to do
> >>> the legwork to get us signed up for GSoC, but we'd need a few developers
> >>> to help mentor actual projects.
> >>
> >>+1 I want to help.
> >>
> >>Regards.
> >>
> >>>
> >>> If we decide not to do it, that's fine too - but I wanted to discuss it
> >>> so it's conscious decision rather than an "oops, we missed the deadline"
> >>> thing.
> >>>
> >>> [1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2013
> >>> [2] http://markmail.org/thread/mpukxgs2a3lqgt7a
> >>>
> >>> Best,
> >>>
> >>> jzb
> >>> --
> >>> Joe Brockmeier
> >>> jzb@zonker.net
> >>> Twitter: @jzb
> >>> http://www.dissociatedpress.net/
> >
>

It sounds like there are at least three potential mentors willing to
help.  Rohit or Joe, do you want to follow up with the dev@community
list to see if ASF is going to try to participate this year?  Perhaps
they will at a top level, and we can be part of that?  In fact, we
probably can only do it if the ASF does it as an org.

-chip