Google SoC 2008

[Jordan K. Hubbard]

Gah!   If it's me or nobody, I'll do it. :-)   We really shouldn't let  
the opportunity just slip through our fingers.  Hey, Jumpy, where are  
you? :-)

- Jordan

On Mar 7, 2008, at 8:38 AM, James Berry wrote:

> I haven't heard back from anybody regarding this plea/opportunity.
>
> I don't have time to shepherd GSoC this year. If no body steps up to
> do so, or to be mentors, I'm going to let this opportunity slide by.
> Deadline for us to apply to Google, with projects in hand, is next
> Wednesday, March 12.
>
> Anybody?
>
> James
>
> On Mar 4, 2008, at 8:27 AM, James Berry wrote:
>
>> 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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>>
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