This strikes me as a nice opportunity to make an enjoyable video! Since we have our videographer Gregg available for the summer, let's explore the possibility of making a video about the GSoC participants' experience. Seems like that could be a fun video to make, plus very motivating for other new CloudStack contributors to view!
I wonder if Google would have any restrictions about using the name GSoC in a video, etc., but we could check with them. Jessica T. On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 1:38 AM, Sebastien Goasguen <run...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Dharmesh, Meng, Ian, Nguyen and Shiva, > > Congratulations again on being selected for the 2013 Google Summer of Code. > > The program has started and we are now in "community bonding period". On > June 17th you will officially start to code. > > I will mentor Dharmesh and Meng > Abhi will mentor Ian > Hugo will mentor Nguyen > Kelcey will mentor Shiva > I will act as overall coordinator. > > While these are your official mentors from a Google perspective, the > entire CloudStack community will help you. > > There are a few things to keep in mind: > ------------------------------------------------------ > -The timeline: Check [0]. Note that there are evaluations throughout the > program and that if progress is not satisfactory you can be dropped from > the program. Hopefully with terrific mentoring from us all at CloudStack > this will not happen and you will finish the program with flying colors. > > -Email: At the Apache Software Foundation, official communication happen > via email, so make sure you are registered to the > dev@cloudstack.apache.org (you are). This is a high traffic list, so > remember to setup mail filters and be sure to keep the GSOC emails where > you can read them, without filters you will be overwhelmed and we don't > want that to happen. When you email the list for a GSOC specific question, > just put [GSOC] at the start of the subject line. I CC you in this email > but will not do it afterwards and just email dev@cloudstack.apache.org > > -IRC: For daily conversation and help, we use IRC. Install an IRC client > and join the #cloudstack and #cloudstack-dev on irc.freenode.net [1]. > Make yourself none and learn a few IRC tricks. > > -JIRA: Our ticketing system is JIRA [2], create an account and browse > JIRA, you should already know where your project is described (which ticket > number ?). As you start working you will create tickets and subtasks that > will allow us to track progress. Students having to work on Mesos, Whirr > and Provisionr will be able to use the same account. > > -Review Board [3]: This is the web interface to submit patches when you > are not an official Apache committer. Create an account on review board. > > -Git: To manage the CloudStack source code we use git [4]. You will need > to become familiar with git. I strongly recommend that you create a > personal github [5] account. If you are not already familiar with git, > check my screencast [6]. > > -Wiki: All our developer content is on our wiki [7]. Browse it, get an > account and create a page about your project in the Student Project page > [8]. > > -Website: I hope you already know our website :) [9] > > -CloudStack University: To get your started and get a tour of CloudStack, > you can watch CloudStack University [10] > > Expectations for bonding period: > -------------------------------------------- > *To get you on-board I would like to ask each of you to send an email > introducing yourself in couple sentences, describe your project (couple > sentences plus link to the JIRA entry and the wiki page you created), > confirm that you joined IRC and if you registered a nick tell us what it is > and finally confirm that you created an account on review board and JIRA. > > *By the end of the period, I would like to see your first patch submitted. > It will be your GSOC proposal in docbook format contributed to a GSOC guide > I will create. There is no code writing involved, this will just serve as a > way to make sure you understand the process of submitting a patch and will > be the start of a great documentation of our GSOC efforts. More on that > later > > On behalf of everyone at CloudStack and especially your mentors (Abhi, > Kelcey, Hugo and myself) , welcome and let's have fun coding. > > -Sebastien > > > [0] - http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2013 > [1] - http://www.freenode.net > [2] - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK > [3] - https://reviews.apache.org/dashboard/ > [4] - http://git-scm.com > [5] - https://github.com > [6] - > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c5JIW4onGk&list=PLb899uhkHRoZCRE00h_9CRgUSiHEgFDbC&index=5 > [7] - https://cwiki.apache.org/CLOUDSTACK/ > [8] - https://cwiki.apache.org/CLOUDSTACK/student-projects.html > [9] - http://cloudstack.apache.org > [10] - > http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb899uhkHRoZCRE00h_9CRgUSiHEgFDbC > > > >
