Google SoC 2008

[James Berry]

Thanks to everybody who pitched ideas for GSoC 2008.

Now the rubber needs to meet the road. We need:

	- Somebody to head up our GSoC 2008 effort (get us signed up with  
Google, document the proposed projects, etc).
	- And committed mentors for any projects.

Volunteers?

As Paul Guyot points out, one thing we found last year was that google  
seems to allocate project funding to a project based on the total  
number of student applications. So a project that gets applications  
from 50 students is likely to be allocated more student slots than a  
project that gets only 3 student applications. The number of student  
applications is probably guided in part by several factors: promotion  
and appeal to the student community; number and appeal of project  
proposals; etc.

James



On Feb 29, 2008, at 3:48 PM, James Berry wrote:

> I'm writing to attempt to gauge interest in whether and how MacPorts
> should participate in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for 2008. See http://code.google.com/soc/2008/
> .
>
> You might be inclined to address any of the following questions:
>
>  - Do you feel MacPorts should participate in GSoC 2008?
>  - Are there particular MacPorts projects you'd like to suggest?
>  - Are you willing to be a GSoC mentor?
>  - Would you be interested, as a student, in participating in a GSoC
> project for MacPorts?
>
> GSoC pays students a wage for the summer to work on open source
> projects, and also a stipend to the project for each student project.
>
> If interested, we need to move very quickly. As the Google GSoC FAQ
> says:
>
> 	"We'll begin accepting applications from open source mentoring
> organizations on Monday, March 3, 2008; we'll stop accepting
> organization applications on Wednesday, March 12th."
>
> Your feedback is welcome
>
> James
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