Applications for mentoring organizations start on Feb 28th, I've started a draft application here:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://pad.p2pu.org/gsoc">http://pad.p2pu.org/gsoc</a></div><div><br></div><div>Go ahead and start writing! I'll be sure to curate responses and give the application a single voice but your input is much appreciated.<br clear="all">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Stian Håklev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shaklev@gmail.com">shaklev@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Anyway, we can certainly make the point that many of the improvements to Lernanta would also benefit Batucada, and maybe other organizations in the future who decide to use parts of the system. We could even structure the application to write modular pieces in Django of functionality we wanted that wasn't available, so that it is usable to the whole Django community - if they are concerned about potential for reuse/impact.<br>
<br><div>Thanks a lot for pushing this forward, great way of getting people interested in P2PU, and as the friend I talked to today, who forwarded the message below said, a good way of getting more people to notice the open source development we are doing, including people at Google</div>
<div><br><font color="#888888">Stian</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 21:40, John Britton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:public@johndbritton.com" target="_blank">public@johndbritton.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Thanks for passing that along Stian. I'm going to join the list, hopefully we can get Mozilla to vouch for us this summer.<div><div>--<br>contact info:<br><a href="http://www.johndbritton.com" target="_blank">http://www.johndbritton.com</a><br>
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<br><br></div><div><div></div><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Stian Håklev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shaklev@gmail.com" target="_blank">shaklev@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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I just heard that this year Google is especially encouraging applications from new and small organizations, that sounds very promising for us!<div><br></div><div>--</div><div><div>On Tue, 8 Feb 2011, Carol Smith wrote:</div>
<div><br></div><div>Hi all,</div><div><br></div><div>Per some feedback from the mentor summit last year, I've decided to encourage and accept more small and new mentoring organizations this year. In tandem with more organizations, I am also setting up a separate mailing list for the newbie organizations to subscribe to to get advice on how to successfully participate in the program for the summer. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I need your help with this effort. If you know of small/new projects who are doing interesting work in the opensource space who might not otherwise apply, please encourage them to do so. We're looking for all kinds of new orgs - ones doing stuff on the bleeding edge, ones opensourcing stuff that hasn't been before, ones who might get overlooked because they're otherwise too small.</div>
<div><br></div><div>There will be two special questions on the mentoring organization application this year: one for which a large or experienced organization can vouch for a small, new organization and one for new or small organizations to list their "references" in the form of veteran orgs or people. These two questions will be looked at very specifically when we review organization applications this year so please fill them in if they are applicable for you.</div>
<div><br></div><div>To facilitate the mentor/mentee relationship between orgs I've set up a mailing list for both veteran and newbie mentors to join [1]. Please sign up if you feel comfortable offering advice to new organizations on how to participate in a successful GSoC. I've made this list invite-only, so please request membership if you're interested in joining and list the org you mentor for. After we've announced accepted organizations for this year, the mentors and org admins from the new projects will be automatically subscribed to this list and encouraged to ask questions and get advice. **This will be a chatty list.**</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thank you in advance for your help with this effort, and may this be the most awesome summer yet!</div><div><br></div><div>[1] - <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/gsoc-veterans" target="_blank">http://groups.google.com/group/gsoc-veterans</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Carol</div><div>--</div><div><div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 18:45, Joe Corneli <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:holtzermann17@gmail.com" target="_blank">holtzermann17@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">You may very well have a better idea about what's involved in<br>
successful GSoC than I have!! My direct experiences were all with<br>
projects that were not resounding successes.<br>
<br>
FWIW. I'm sure others besides me can provide their own horror (or<br>
success) stories.<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>
Joe<br>
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On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:23 PM, John Britton <<a href="mailto:public@johndbritton.com" target="_blank">public@johndbritton.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Thanks Joe,<br>
> I was a GSoC student in 2008 and have a pretty good idea of what's involved.<br>
> I'm planning to work with a few Brown students in the next few months and<br>
> will use that as a prep for GSoC.<br>
> Cheers,<br>
> John<br>
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> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Joe Corneli <<a href="mailto:holtzermann17@gmail.com" target="_blank">holtzermann17@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Hi:<br>
>><br>
>> I'm not qualified to mentor students for this project (and probably<br>
>> too busy to apply myself *as* a student) -- but I'd be happy to offer<br>
>> some words of advice about working with GSoC students in general,<br>
>> assuming you haven't done it before. Mainly, just like with P2PU<br>
>> courses, you must do what you can make sure the parties involved are<br>
>> highly committed! Otherwise you'll find people who make it to the<br>
>> half-way point and drop (they still get half the money, if they choose<br>
>> to claim it).<br>
>><br>
>> Meeting the people in person isn't enough. Previous commits to the<br>
>> codebase isn't enough. Leadership in the project (Jessy) or in their<br>
>> own project (mystery persons who you haven't met yet) -- much better<br>
>> indication of success! Final word of "wisdom" is to value<br>
>> *communication* very highly. You don't want these people<br>
>> disappearing, but it's almost as bad if they don't document their<br>
>> work...<br>
>><br>
>> Joe<br>
>><br>
>> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:29 PM, John Britton <<a href="mailto:public@johndbritton.com" target="_blank">public@johndbritton.com</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>> > I want to get some GSoC students working on Lernanta, anyone else<br>
>> > interested<br>
>> > in being a mentor if I do the application?<br>
>> ><br>
>> > <a href="http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2011/timeline" target="_blank">http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2011/timeline</a><br>
>> > Cheers,<br>
>> > John<br>
>> > --<br>
>> > contact info:<br>
>> > <a href="http://www.johndbritton.com" target="_blank">http://www.johndbritton.com</a><br>
>> > @johndbritton - <a href="http://twitter.com/johndbritton" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/johndbritton</a><br>
>> ><br>
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