Google Summer of Code 2009: Mentors needed!

[Rainer Müller]

Hi,

The MacPorts Project will apply again for the Google Summer of Code
(GSoC) program this year. I think most of you will already have heard of
it. Google pays students to work on various Open Source projects over
the summer. It is also a good start for students into Open Source
development.

See also <http://code.google.com/soc/> for more background information.

MacPorts will apply to be one of the mentoring organizations. The
students can propose their project ideas to us and we will choose the
most appealing applications.

Each student is supposed to work closely with a mentor who should guide
the student through their project and the Open Source world. A mentor
should have knowledge of the project and will communicate with the
student over the summer to watch the progress and work out any problems.

So, we need mentors from our MacPorts community who are willing to care
for a student. Please participate!

We have to move quickly, as we need to make our application very soon by
deadline Friday, March 13th.

Also, if you have a specific idea what could be improved in MacPorts,
but you never had the time to do it yourself, please put a proposal on
our ideas page. I already cleared up the list from the last year and
there are still interesting and important projects on it. And we need
mentors for these, of course.

Ideas page: http://trac.macports.org/wiki/SummerOfCode

I am going to be the administrator for GSoC for MacPorts this year, so I
will handle the organization application etc. If you have any questions
regarding GSoC, please don't hesitate to ask.

Rainer