I just submitted the Application based on the feedback I had. If anything else should be changed just ping me. We can change stuff until the deadline pass (12.03.2011).
Bye, Norman 2011/3/8 Ulrich Stärk <u...@spielviel.de> > Looks good. Could we please add > > Saros is run by university staff that has a lot of experience in mentoring > students. > > to the Saros description? > > Thanks, > > Uli > > On 08.03.2011 19:34, Norman Maurer wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > here is the updated Application Draft. I hope I included everything. I > will > > see if I can find the "old" template somewhere. So please review: > > > > > > Organization Name: > > > > The Apache Software Foundation > > > > > > Description: > > > > The Apache Software Foundation provides organizational, legal, and > financial > > support for a broad range of open source software projects. The > Foundation > > provides an established framework for intellectual property and financial > > contributions that simultaneously limits contributors potential legal > > exposure. Through a collaborative and meritocratic development process, > > Apache projects deliver enterprise-grade, freely available software > products > > that attract large communities of users. The pragmatic Apache License > makes > > it easy for all users, commercial and individual, to deploy Apache > products. > > > > > > Home page: > > > > www.apache.org > > > > > > Main License: > > > > ASL2 > > > > > > Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2011? What do > you > > hope to gain by participating? > > > > The Apache Software Foundation hope to help students to get in touch with > > Opensource. Beside this we try to teach them how to develop and > communicate > > in a multi-culture organisation. All this will help them to get some > > "real-world" expirience which will hopefully help them later in their > > career. > > > > > > If accepted, would this be your first year participating in GSoC? > > > > No > > > > > > Did your organization participate in past GSoCs? If so, please summarize > > your involvement and the successes and challenges of your participation. > > > > The ASF participate in all GSoCs to date. We had many success within the > > last years. Many "prior" Students are now part of the community > (committers) > > , part of the PMC or even ASF Members. So the GSoC helped us (and our > > projects) to grew and to build a better community around various > projects. > > > > > > If your organization participated in past GSoCs, please let us know the > > ratio of students passing to students allocated, e.g. 2006: 3/6 for 3 out > of > > 6 students passed in 2006. > > > > 2010: 39/44 > > > > What is the URL for your ideas page? > > > > http://s.apache.org/gsoc2011tasks > > > > > > What is the main development mailing list for your organization? This > > question will be shown to students who would like to get more information > > about applying to your organization for GSoC 2011. If your organization > uses > > more than one list, please make sure to include a description of the list > so > > students know which to use. > > > > No central list, see the lists of Apache projects at > http://www.apache.org/and > > http://incubator.apache.org/ > > Students may approach the GSOC Admins via dev@community.apache.org > > > > > > What is the main IRC channel for your organization? > > > > No central irc channel. Channels are managed by the specific project (if > the > > project has a channel at all) > > > > > > Does your organization have an application template you would like to see > > students use? If so, please provide it now. Please note that it is a very > > good idea to ask students to provide you with their contact information > as > > part of your template. Their contact details will not be shared with you > > automatically via the GSoC 2011 site. > > > > No > > > > > > What criteria did you use to select the individuals who will act as > mentors > > for your organization? Please be as specific as possible. > > > > The Apache Software Foundation uses the Meritocracy principle to > recognize > > community contributors which are voted by other community members to > receive > > "committer karma" for a given project. These committers will be able to > > propose ideas and volunteer as mentors for the selected project ideas. > > We expect our mentors to work with our admins and other experienced > mentors. > > Our evaluation process gives priority to those who, through the > meritocratic > > process, have demonstrated a willingness to do this. > > As for Administrators, we are using a set 4 admins/co-admins. These > admins > > are supported by past admins through out Apache Community Development > > Project (http://community.apache.org) > > > > > > What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students? > > > > We work hard to filter potentially disappearing students during the > > application phases. Over the years we have been reasonably successful in > > defining application processes and selection criteria that guard against > > this. However, it is impossible to spot such cases with 100% accuracy. > > Mentors are expected to make all reasonable efforts to contact a > > disappearing student through all communication channels we have > available. > > However, as an all volunteer organizations we do not require mentors to > > actively seek missing students. This has served us very well in the past. > > > > What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors? > > > > Considering the ASF is a foundation, not a single project, we the admins > > would ask for the project PMC to indicate a substitute mentor or provide > > co-mentors for the selected projects. > > In all the previous GSOC's we never had problems with lack of mentoring > and > > found a replacement Mentor if needed. > > > > What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your > > project's community before, during and after the program? > > > > We try to treat the students like a part of the community and try to > assist > > them. This way they feel like be a part of the ASF. This helps to keep > them > > motivated. > > Prior to submitting a proposal, students are required to discuss their > ideas > > with the respective > > project communities in the public. This is an explicit point we consider > > when ranking student proposals and reflect how projects communicate > within > > the ASF. During the program, our students should work together with their > > community in all technical matters. All students are encouraged to > > participate in their project after GSoC ends. Some might even be granted > > committer access based on their contributions. > > > > If you are a large organization who is vouching for a small organization > > applying to GSoC for their first time this year, please list their name > and > > why you think they'd be good candidates for GSoC here: > > > > Simal: > > - A project registry using DOAP for data harvesting and sharing > > - http://simal.googlecode.com > > > > This is a good candidate as it is run by Ross Gardler, 5 times GSoC admin > > and 3 times mentor for the ASF, as such the project team understand the > GSoC > > processes and expectations. It is an interesting project that is > attempting > > to use linked data to expose community activity in open source projects. > > Although it is in late alpha stages it is starting to attract attention > from > > a small but passionate community. At present it has a focus on open > source > > produced in academic research projects, but it can be used in much > broader > > contexts. > > > > Saros: > > - Distributed Collaborative Editing and Distributed Party Programming > > - http://www.saros-project.org/ > > > > > > Saros provides a way for distributed developers to work together in > > real-time over the Internet and > > includes additional features supporting "distributed party programming", > a > > looser type of > > collaboration. Saros is considered useful for virtual communities (as > > typically found in open source > > projects) in a number of distinct development scenarios, including: pair > > programming, code > > reviewing, coaching and side-by-side programming. > > > > > > Backup Admin (Link ID): > > > > uli, rgardler ... ( More to be added) > > > > > > > > 2011/3/8 Antoine Levy-Lambert <anto...@gmx.de> > > > >> Hello Kathey, Norman, Ross and others > >> > >> I have entered a new issue COMDEV-60 : > >> > >> Regards, > >> > >> Antoine > >> > >> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMDEV-60 > >> > >> On 3/7/11 12:24 PM, Kathey Marsden wrote: > >>> On 3/7/2011 2:18 AM, Norman Maurer wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Does your organization have an application template you would like to > >>>> see > >>>> students use? If so, please provide it now. Please note that it is a > >>>> very > >>>> good idea to ask students to provide you with their contact > >>>> information as > >>>> part of your template. Their contact details will not be shared with > you > >>>> automatically via the GSoC 2011 site. > >>>> > >>> I think in the past we have had a general template that had things > >>> like name, contact information, abstract, detail timeline, and also > >>> asked how much time the student would be committing during the summer > >>> and what other commitments they had. I think it is good to have a > >>> free format but provide a template to make sure that such important > >>> information is included. > >>> > >>> http://s.apache.org/gsoc2011tasks > >>> > >>> For the project ideas page, we only have three so far which might make > >>> us look a bit week. Perhaps send a clear message to this list and also > >>> code-awards to clarify how they are to be marked. There may be some > >>> confusion there. > >>> > >>> > >>> Thanks > >>> > >>> Kathey > >>> > >> > >> > > Bye, > > Norman > > >
