On Feb 23, 2010, at 7:57 AM, Azhagu Selvan wrote: > On Monday 22 February 2010 08:56 PM, Daniel Näslund wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 07:28:13AM -0800, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 5:11 AM, Daniel Näslund<dan...@longitudo.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi! >>>> >>>> Google Summer of Code is on for 2010 [1]. Is there any interest in >>>> participating this year? If so, I've found that the mentoring >>>> application deadline is 12 march. [2] >>>> >>>> Since we're part of ASF, perhaps an application should go >>>> through them? [3] >>>> >>> Yes. There's an ASF committee called "comdev" >>> (http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html) that manages our participation >>> in GSoC. They will do the application on the foundation's behalf and >>> post info to all PMCs about how to participate on the ASF end if a >>> project is interested. ComDev will also manage the ranking process - >>> when you have 70+ projects interested in participating even when you >>> have 30-40 slots, the review process can get a bit "heated" >>> internally. (If you're interested in tracking this, you might want to >>> join d...@community.apache.org.) >>> >> Ok. Given the short amount of time to deadline (18 days) and the absence >> of discussions on fitting tasks for a GSoC project I assume the >> Subversion community is not interrested in participating this year. Too >> bad if that's the case! >> > > Hi all, > > I am a n00b hacker who uses svn for my major collaborative works[1]. > I would like to contribute back to the svn community. It would be more > lovely if my contribution starts in GSoC. Actually I was planning to apply > as a student developer for Subversion in GSoC'10. But was a bit disappointed > that subversion may not participate in GSoC this year.
We haven't made a concrete decision one way or another, so don't be disappointed quite yet. It actually helps to know that people are interested in participating, 'cause that will motivate us to participate. -Hyrum
