GSoC 2010: Call for Mentors

[Rainer Müller]

Hello,

I am going to submit an application on behalf of The MacPorts Project
for the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program 2010. 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 with Open Source development. MacPorts is taking part in this
program every year since 2007.

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

First, we need to apply to Google to be accepted as an mentoring
organization. Last year, I wrote this application on my own but
unfortunately it cannot be viewed again on their website any more. So
for this year I thought it would be all better to write this together in
the wiki.

I already started a new wiki page with the questions Google published in
the program FAQ:
  http://trac.macports.org/wiki/SummerOfCodeOrgApplication

Please stop by the wiki page and fill in some answers or correct/rewrite
existing ones. I hope that collaborating will bring out a good
application with which we will be able to participate in GSoC again.

The deadline for this application is *this Friday, March 12th*.

When we get accepted and get students interested in working for us, 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!

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 will stand up to be the organization administrator again as I already
did this last year. But we also need a backup administrator as a
requirement from Google. Is someone willing to do this?

If you have more questions regarding GSoC 2010 for MacPorts, please do
not hesitate to contact me.

Rainer