All, ASF is again going to apply for the Google Summer of Code program, see the email from Ulrich Stark below.
If you want to be a mentor and have an idea, please read the email and enter your ideas in jira with the proper labels. Make sure to read the 'guide to be a mentor' as this is a time intensive task, so you need to be committed. PS: the first of many [GSOC2014] emails... Cheers, -Sebastien On Jan 28, 2014, at 11:05 PM, Ulrich Stärk <u...@apache.org> wrote: > Hello PMCs, > > Google Summer of Code [1] is celebrating it’s tenth year and we at Apache > hopefully our tenth year of participation. In order to also make this year a > success for you and your project, we now need your help. > > The ASF will apply as a participating organization meaning individual > projects don't have to apply separately. > > If you want to participate with your project you have to do the following > things by no later than 2014-02-10 19:00 UTC > > - understand what it means to be a mentor [2]. > > - record your project ideas. Just create issues in JIRA, label them with > gsoc2014, and they will show up at [3]. Please be as specific as possible > when describing your idea. Include the programming language, the tools and > skills required, but try not to scare potential students away. They are > supposed to learn what's required before the program starts. Use labels, e.g. > for the programming language (java, c, c++, erlang, python, brainfuck, ...) > or technology area (cloud, xml, web, foo, bar, ...). Please use the COMDEV > JIRA project for recording your ideas if your project doesn't use JIRA (e.g. > httpd, ooo). Contact d...@community.apache.org if you need assistance. [4] > contains some additional information. > > - subscribe to ment...@community.apache.org (this used to be the > code-awa...@apache.org list, you don’t have to subscribe again; restricted to > potential mentors, meant to be used as a private list - general discussions > on the public d...@community.apache.org list as much as possible please). Use > a recognized address when subscribing (@apache.org or one of your alias > addresses on record). > > Note that the ASF isn't accepted yet, nevertheless you *have to* start > recording your ideas now or we might not get accepted. > > Over the years we were able to complete hundreds of projects successfully. > Some of our prior students are active contributors now! Let's make this tenth > year a success again! > > Uli > > > [1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014 > [2] http://community.apache.org/guide-to-being-a-mentor.html > [3] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2014ideas > [4] http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html > >
