[macports-mgr] Google SoC 2008

[James Berry]

Bill,

Glad to hear you'll be able to help out with this.

I'd like to ask anybody who would be willing to mentor to please  
communicate with Bill. Our timeframe is very short to get an  
application together by noon PDT tomorrow.

James


On Mar 10, 2008, at 3:15 PM, William Siegrist wrote:

> 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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