On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 5:18 AM, Norman Maurer <nor...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi there, > > For the Co-Admins: > * I need your Id's to add it to the Application > <snip/>
Its my initials: ra -Rahul > For the "last Admins": > * Do we have some stats about how many students pass last year etc ? > > > > I prepared this for GSOC. Please review and add comments. > > 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 many GSoCs yet. We had many success within the last > years. Many "prior" Students are now part of the community (committers) or > even part of the PMC. 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. > > .... (To be added) > > > 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/ > > > 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. > > As for Administrators, we are using a set 4 admins/co-admins. > > > What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students? > > We will try to filter on them in the select process and do our best to > "detect" this as soon as possible. Beside this each project/mentor will keep > an eye on this > > > 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. > > > 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. > > > 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 > > Saros: > - Distributed Collaborative Editing and Distributed Party Programming > - http://www.saros-project.org/ > > Backup Admin (Link ID): > > Uli ... ( More to be added) > > > > > Thanks, > Norman >
