[p2pu-dev] Google Summer of Code 2011

Wed Feb 9 02:33:28 UTC 2011

I just heard that this year Google is especially encouraging applications
from new and small organizations, that sounds very promising for us!

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On Tue, 8 Feb 2011, Carol Smith wrote:

Hi all,

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.

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.

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.

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.**

Thank you in advance for your help with this effort, and may this be the
most awesome summer yet!

[1] - http://groups.google.com/group/gsoc-veterans

Cheers,
Carol
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On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 18:45, Joe Corneli <holtzermann17 at gmail.com> wrote:

> You may very well have a better idea about what's involved in
> successful GSoC than I have!!  My direct experiences were all with
> projects that were not resounding successes.
>
> FWIW.  I'm sure others besides me can provide their own horror (or
> success) stories.
>
> Joe
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:23 PM, John Britton <public at johndbritton.com>
> wrote:
> > Thanks Joe,
> > I was a GSoC student in 2008 and have a pretty good idea of what's
> involved.
> > I'm planning to work with a few Brown students in the next few months and
> > will use that as a prep for GSoC.
> > Cheers,
> > John
> > --
> > contact info:
> > http://www.johndbritton.com
> > @johndbritton - http://twitter.com/johndbritton
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Joe Corneli <holtzermann17 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi:
> >>
> >> I'm not qualified to mentor students for this project (and probably
> >> too busy to apply myself *as* a student) -- but I'd be happy to offer
> >> some words of advice about working with GSoC students in general,
> >> assuming you haven't done it before.  Mainly, just like with P2PU
> >> courses, you must do what you can make sure the parties involved are
> >> highly committed!   Otherwise you'll find people who make it to the
> >> half-way point and drop (they still get half the money, if they choose
> >> to claim it).
> >>
> >> Meeting the people in person isn't enough.  Previous commits to the
> >> codebase isn't enough.   Leadership in the project (Jessy) or in their
> >> own project (mystery persons who you haven't met yet) -- much better
> >> indication of success!  Final word of "wisdom" is to value
> >> *communication* very highly.  You don't want these people
> >> disappearing, but it's almost as bad if they don't document their
> >> work...
> >>
> >> Joe
> >>
> >> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:29 PM, John Britton <public at johndbritton.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > I want to get some GSoC students working on Lernanta, anyone else
> >> > interested
> >> > in being a mentor if I do the application?
> >> >
> >> >
> http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2011/timeline
> >> > Cheers,
> >> > John
> >> > --
> >> > contact info:
> >> > http://www.johndbritton.com
> >> > @johndbritton - http://twitter.com/johndbritton
> >> >
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