[p2pu-dev] Google Summer of Code 2011

Wed Feb 9 02:40:16 UTC 2011

Thanks for passing that along Stian. I'm going to join the list, hopefully
we can get Mozilla to vouch for us this summer.
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On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Stian Håklev <shaklev at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just heard that this year Google is especially encouraging applications
> from new and small organizations, that sounds very promising for us!
>
> --
> 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
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>> >
>> >
>> > 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
>> >> > --
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>> >> > @johndbritton - http://twitter.com/johndbritton
>> >> >
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