GSoC 2013: Call for Mentors

[Joshua Root]

On 2013-3-19 08:45 , Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
> I am going to submit an application on behalf of The MacPorts Project for the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program 2013. I think most of you have already 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. As you may recall, Clemens joined us after successfully completing his GSoC project to create rev-upgrade for MacPorts.
> 
> See <http://code.google.com/soc/> for more background information.
> 
> First, we need to apply to Google to be accepted as an mentoring organization. Our full application cannot presently be viewed on their website, however you can see a summary <http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2011/macports>. Our full application is available in our wiki:
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> http://trac.macports.org/wiki/SummerOfCodeOrgApplication
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> 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.

Note that "A disappearing mentor has not happened to us" is not actually
true; in 2008 I had to take over a student after the mentor disappeared
(temporarily), and the student ended up failing the midterm evaluation.

I'm not sure if you want to mention this and say that we've learned from
the experience, or just remove the claim.

- Josh