GSoC 2010: Call for Mentors

[Scott Haneda]

I don't know much about GSoC, but I'm willing to offer whatever I can  
from the perspective of someone who would not physically be there.

I'm not even sure this is an on location "camp" style event.

I only maintain a few ports, have been around MP about a year now, and  
that was my first introduction to TCL. Ie: my ability to offer support  
at a code level will probably be less than that of any GSoC player  
after day one :)

I have years of bash fiddling, strong php skills, and moderate to high  
system admin abilities. I do not know well enough C or any of it's  
variants, Cocoa, etc to be of assistance there.

I do feel I'm pretty fair ad administrative management and  
organizational tasks. So, if there is a need for a body to fill that  
area...

I love this project and truly enjoy it. If there is any position no  
matter how administrative, boring, or otherwise, I'll step up to the  
plate.

--  
Scott
(Sent from a mobile device)

On Mar 11, 2010, at 1:49 AM, Rainer Müller <raimue at macports.org> wrote:

> On 2010-03-08 02:30 , Rainer Müller wrote:
>> The deadline for this application is *this Friday, March 12th*.
>
> So far I only got one response, but yet nobody volunteered as mentor.
> Additionally MacPorts cannot apply without a backup organization
> administrator. Should I provide more general information about the  
> GSoC
> program and how it works? Is there a lack of interest in doing GSoC  
> this
> year again?
>
> If nobody steps up as backup organization administrator, I am unable  
> to
> submit an application. I think that the GSoC program always brought  
> good
> features and code into the project and we shouldn't miss this chance.
>
> This is very urgent now, as we need to specify a backup organization
> administrator in the application. This person would be responsible for
> communication with Google in case I cannot be reached via E-Mail or
> whatever. They just always want to know a contact at the  
> organizations.
>
> Mentors can still be gathered after we submitted the application,
> although it will make a much better impression if a list of mentors is
> already up. This would show that we are really willing to handle
> students working for us.
>
>
> George, Juan, would any or both of you volunteer to drive the GUI
> further? Interest in GUI was high in the past.
>
> James, would you be interested in MPWA? There has always been someone
> interested in this task.
>
> Florian, could you imagine mentoring MPAB/portmill if anyone is
> interested in completing this? We could probably also split up the
> "Binaries" task on the ideas page into separate tasks.
>
> Byran, from your current activity level I assume you won't have time  
> for
> GSoC this year, right?
>
> Matthew, you maintain a lot of p5-* ports. I put the cpan2port to the
> ideas list. Would you be interested in mentoring this?
>
> Jeremy, Perry, you both were mentors last year without a specific
> student or project. But you have knowledge of our infrastructure and
> source code, so I would like to have you on board again.
>
>
> Who else?
> Please take a look at the tasks listed on our ideas page at
> <http://trac.macports.org/wiki/SummerOfCode> and step up if you think
> you could lead and help a student to implement this. Ignore the
> "Potential mentor" field, that's from last year.
>
> If you are unsure if you will be able to do this, just contact me  
> and I
> will give you more details.
>
> Looking forward to get some responses,
> Rainer
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