Quoth Anthony Sorace <a...@9srv.net>:
> Plan 9 is applying to GSoC again!
>
> The application period closes on Monday, and our formal application is in. As
> is the case every year, the most critical part of an application is the org's
> ideas page[1]. We'd love additional fleshed-out contributions for that. Since
> we had a little confusion on this last year, please note that we're looking
> specifically for well-developed ideas that would be good summer-sized
> projects for new contributors, from folks willing to mentor those projects
> (rather than "it'd be neat if someone would do X"); see the existing ideas
> page for examples (some of which are more developed than others, certainly!).
>
> If you're interested in mentoring, please let me know! Bringing your own
> project idea is great, but we can also use more experienced, eager folks to
> pair up with new contributors on other projects.
>
> We've got an overview page[2], and all the program details are on Google's
> GSoC page[3], and you might be interested in the program timeline[4] in
> particular.
>
> One other note, for those of you who're familiar with the program, there are
> a few notable changes, which Google goes into in a post[5] about them. In
> brief, though:
>
> - The program is now open to a lot more than just formal students
> - There are two project sizes: large ("traditional") and medium (like last
> year's)
> - The timing of the work is more flexible.
>
> I think these are all great (even if they make a little more work for admins
> and mentors!) and should be nice additions to the program.
>
> Your friendly neighborhood org admin,
> Anthony
>
> [1] https://p9f.org/wiki/gsoc-2022-ideas/index.html
> [2] http://p9f.org/wiki/gsoc/index.html
> [3] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com
> [4] https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
> [5]
> https://opensource.googleblog.com/2021/11/expanding-google-summer-of-code-in-2022.html
While pdffs project that was proposed last year didn't
get accepted, the student that proposed it still made a
lot of progress, and now that code can fully extract
text from PDFs.
It may be worth trying to carry that forward.
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