Sally, I drafted a blog post on the comdev blog and invited you to work on that draft with me. Getting the word out is the most important thing right now. Student application starts next week and we want to have as much coverage as possible until then.
Cheers, Uli On 18.03.2012 12:01, Sally Khudairi wrote: > Thanks, Uli. > Perhaps this is best presented as a blog post, from which we can > publicize/tweet, etc. > Do you --or any of the ComDev folks-- have Roller editing access for > blogs.apache.org? Has anything been sent to annou...@apache.org in the past? > If not, that's OK, I can help with getting the word out, but suggest you > consider doing so for easy status updates, etc. > Chat soon! > -Sally > [from the mobile; pls pardon spacing/spelling errors] > -----Original Message----- > From: Ulrich Stärk > Sent: 18/03/2012, 3:39 AM > To: Sally Khudairi > Cc: pr...@apache.org; dev@community.apache.org > Subject: Re: Apache Software Foundation accepted as a mentoring organization > for Google Summer of Code 2012 > > > Hey Sally, > > A prompt note saying that we've been accepted and that this is a great > opportunity for us with > pointers to our ideas list and dev@community for further questions would be > nice. > > Thanks, > > Uli > > On 18.03.2012 00:50, Sally Khudairi wrote: >> Thanks, Uli. That's great news! >> >> I'll definitely run anything formal by you, as well as a heads-up that I'll >> be sending any tweets >> out, for example the GSoC application dates, as I'll point to the relevant >> Apache resources. >> >> For this week, is there anything that you need from us? Anything urgent? >> >> Cheers, >> Sally >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> *From:* Ulrich Stärk <u...@spielviel.de> >> *To:* pr...@apache.org >> *Cc:* dev@community.apache.org >> *Sent:* Saturday, 17 March 2012, 18:21 >> *Subject:* Apache Software Foundation accepted as a mentoring >> organization for Google Summer >> of Code 2012 >> >> Hey Sally & Co., >> >> this year we won't forget to provide you with some infos on our GSoC >> endeavours. Yesterday, we >> have >> been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2012 >> [1],[2]. This means that >> over the summer, our committers will mentor students that are sponsored >> by Google and will be >> working on our projects. The program helps us not only to get some code >> written but also to >> introduce students into open source development and hopefully recruit >> some new long-term >> committers. >> More information on the program is available at [3]. Students are now >> encouraged to discuss ideas >> with the respective projects and begin drafting proposals. An extensive >> list of already existing >> project ideas is available at [4]. The actual application phase is from >> 03/26 until 04/06, Coding >> will take place from 05/21 to 08/20. See [5] for the detailed timeline. >> >> Can you please run any press release past us (dev@community.apache.org >> <mailto:dev@community.apache.org>) before publishing? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Uli >> >> [1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2012 >> [2] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2012/apache >> [3] >> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2012/faqs >> [4] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2012tasks >> [5] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2012 >> >>
