Congratulations to all the selected GSOC students and projects

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

We are looking forward to getting to know you and sharing your experiences with MacPorts.

Regards,
Brad (pixilla)


> On May 4, 2017, at 1:27 PM, Umesh Singla <umeshksingla at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> Thanks to the MacPorts guys for picking my project to be implemented! You won't be disappointed! ;)
> I see also that there's one other project in the organization. Congratulations to my fellow interns!
> 
> Regarding the work, I plan to keep a blog to report my progress. I'll write a post about every two weeks, and keep email communication with my mentors.
> 
> Thanks again, and you'll be hearing from me soon. 
> Have a nice weekend everyone! :)
> 
> Regards
> 
> On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 12:19 AM, Mojca Miklavec <mojca at macports.org> wrote:
> Dear students and developers,
> 
> Google just announced 1,318 projects selected for the GSOC 2017.
> 
> I'm happy to share with you that MacPorts got two slots for the
> following projects:
> 
> - Umesh Singla:
>   Adding migrate action to port command
>   mentor: Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)
> 
> - "Zero King" (l2dy)
>   Bot and CI for macports-ports
>   mentors: Clemens Lang (cal/neverpanic) & Mojca Miklavec (mojca)
> 
> At this point I would like to express my gratitude to Jackson Isaac
> who took over the administration and made sure that we applied in time
> :)
> 
> Apart from (at least!) weekly meetings with the mentors, either via
> our IRC channel (or somewhere else if more appropriate) we would like
> to encourage the students to *publicly* interact with the community.
> Ask questions on the mailing list and IRC, so that the rest of the
> community will be kept up to date and will be able to help you even if
> mentors will be temporarily offline.
> 
> Unless you have some issues of private nature that should not be read
> by everyone, please try to avoid sending private emails for technical
> discussions.
> 
> I suggest that we create a new entry for 2017 at
>     https://trac.macports.org/wiki/SummerOfCodeArchive
> and add the description of projects to
>     https://trac.macports.org/wiki/SummerOfCode2017
> 
> The time until the end of May is meant for community bonding period,
> learning our codebase or any other tools needed to get up to speed by
> the time the official coding period begins.
> 
> Project proposals/plans can still be improved or adapted by the end of
> the month provided that both the student and mentor(s) agree to
> changes.
> 
> 
> To answer the (semi-serisous) question about what happens if the
> project is finished way before the GSOC is over or whether it's OK to
> start coding before the official coding period starts: this is of
> course no problem as long a you keep in mind that it is desired to
> keep coding and produce useful results until the end of the program.
> (In particular: coding 16 hours per days and completing the project in
> May and then quitting GSOC doesn't count.)
> 
> I hope that others will add more to this thread.
> 
> Mojca
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Umesh Singla