On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Joe Brockmeier <j...@zonker.net> wrote: > Hey all, > > Google has announced its dates [1] for Summer of Code. We've touched on > this previously [2] and there was some concern it wasn't a great use of > time. > > However, I thought I'd bring it up in case there's any interest in > trying to participate. (There's no guarantee that we'd be accepted in > any case, though Google is good about 'rotating' orgs so that it's not > always the same mentoring organizations every year.) I'd be happy to do > the legwork to get us signed up for GSoC, but we'd need a few developers > to help mentor actual projects. > > If we decide not to do it, that's fine too - but I wanted to discuss it > so it's conscious decision rather than an "oops, we missed the deadline" > thing. >
Doesn't the ASF itself act as the 'org'? They at least did last year. See http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html --David