Google SoC 2008

[William Siegrist]

I can shepherd the GSoC effort for macports.  I've gone through the  
wiki page and made the initial changes for 2008.

http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/wiki/SummerOfCode

The next thing we need to do is to verify which of those tasks are  
obsolete or completed, and which tasks we should add.  If you can be  
mentor for the project, please add your name to the list and any tasks  
you can help with.

I'll be working on the application today and tomorrow, so we need to  
move quickly.

Thanks

-Bill



On Mar 7, 2008, at 11:14 AM, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 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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William Siegrist
Software Support Engineer
Mac OS Forge
http://macosforge.org/
wsiegrist at apple.com
408 862 7337





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