Hey Jan, this is a great idea and it would be awesome, if someone would be up for coaching. I personally have no slot unfortunately to do so.
All the best Andy On 20 January 2016 at 18:00, Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey all, > > The RailsGirls Summer of code happens again this year and applications for > projects close in eleven days. > > RGSoC is like Google Summer of Code, except that for a focus on students, > they focus on getting women* in technology. > > We’ve participated with Hoodie last year and it was a great success. Each > project gets at most one team, so coaching overhead is a lot less as with > GSoC. > > In addition, RGSoC teams come with their own support group and external > coaches, so it is a lot more likely that something comes of the project. > > And I bet we could apply separately for CouchDB and Fauxton, since they > are vastly different projects. > > If you need more convincing: over the past four years, 90% of RGSoC > applicants have found a steady job in IT, many of them switching careers. > I’ve witnessed a number of these transitions and they are one of the > prouder moments in my open source life. > > Before you ask, despite the name, RGSoC is open for all open source > projects, regardless of the programming language. > > Here’s the application procedure: > http://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/guide/projects/ > > Should CouchDB participate? Who’d be up for coaching? > > Best > Jan > -- > * http://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/students/application/#eligibility > > -- Andy Wenk Hamburg - Germany RockIt! GPG fingerprint: C044 8322 9E12 1483 4FEC 9452 B65D 6BE3 9ED3 9588 https://people.apache.org/keys/committer/andywenk.asc
