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Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 22:32:19 +0100
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Hi,


Am 06.03.2012 21:24, schrieb mehdi houshmand:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> Does the mentor need to be a PDFBox committer? If not, I wouldn't mind
> putting myself forward as a candidate... Of course, that is if no one
> else does.
Thanks for the offer, but AFAIKT it's not possible. According to [1] the mentor 
has to be an ASF member or committer.

> Mehdi
>
> On 6 March 2012 18:43, Andreas Lehmkuehler<andreas@lehmi.de>  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Am 29.02.2012 03:50, schrieb Tharaka Nayanajith Wijebandara:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm university student in Sri Lanka and a newbie to Open Source
>>> Development. I would like to participate for Google Summer of Code 2012
>>> with an Apache Project. Since I'm familiar with Java and I have used
>>> PDFBox
>>> Library for my academic project, I like to develop new feature for PDFBox
>>> as my GSoC project. First of all I want to know that is it possible to
>>> participate for GSoC 2012 with PDFBox project?
>>>
>>>
>>> If it is yes, I want help from PDFBox development community to select
>>> appropriate PDFBox task for GSoC.
>>
>> There is a lot to do and I'm sure that some of those jobs should qualify as
>> GSoC task.
>>
>>
>>> If you have any idea about good project or advice for me, please reply to
>>> this.
>>
>> You will need a mentor and I'm not sure if you will find one among our
>> ranks. I'd like to support you, but I can't do it due to personal reasons.
>>
>> Anybody else?
>>
>>
>> BR
>> Andreas Lehmk�hler

BR
Andreas Lehmk�hler

[1] http://community.apache.org/guide-to-being-a-mentor.html