Re: low gsoc popularity this year?

2011-04-06 Thread Ross Gardler
On 06/04/2011 21:06, siddharth srivastava wrote: Hi "The Apache Software Foundation" appears as "Apache Software Foundation" on melange. So it does. Not sure why I thought otherwise - thanks for the correction. I have myself applied for GSoC this year, so just putting in my two cents: One o

Re: low gsoc popularity this year?

2011-04-06 Thread siddharth srivastava
Hi "The Apache Software Foundation" appears as "Apache Software Foundation" on melange. I have myself applied for GSoC this year, so just putting in my two cents: One of the possible reasons according to me is the Jira interface. Most of the visitors are unaware of the Jira interface and how iss

Re: FAQ for apache-extras.org

2011-04-06 Thread ant elder
Apologies, please ignore that "H". Left my laptop within reach of my toddler. ...ant On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 6:55 PM, ant elder wrote: > H > > On Wednesday, April 6, 2011, Daniel Shahaf wrote: >> Shane Curcuru wrote on Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 10:38:04 -0400: >>> Given the fact that in this case,

Re: FAQ for apache-extras.org

2011-04-06 Thread ant elder
H On Wednesday, April 6, 2011, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > Shane Curcuru wrote on Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 10:38:04 -0400: >> Given the fact that in this case, we already know the people running >> the project, and the fact that we exercise some control over the >> apache-extras.org domain and hosting its

Re: low gsoc popularity this year?

2011-04-06 Thread Kathey Marsden
On 4/6/2011 8:32 AM, Zhijie Shen wrote: I'm a student that will apply GSoC'11 with Apache. From the perspective of a student, I think one reason is that the idea list of Apache projects is released a bit late. In fact, a number of other organizations released the idea list long time before the or

Re: low gsoc popularity this year?

2011-04-06 Thread ejaj on resurgence
Hi Ross, thanks for your invaluable info,well i m beginning to work on it and m researching on it too. Now, if you give any link of the so far reported problems, I'd be rather satisfied. thanks.. On 4/6/11, Ross Gardler wrote: > On 06/04/2011 17:44, ejaj on resurgence wrote: >> Hi, >> i m researc

Re: low gsoc popularity this year?

2011-04-06 Thread Ross Gardler
On 06/04/2011 17:44, ejaj on resurgence wrote: Hi, i m researching for webapp manager for tuscany and m going to apply for that. Referencing to one of the post , it says its a joke. I just wanna ask if this infeasible at all and if there is any thing i could step up to work with. It does work,

Re: FAQ for apache-extras.org

2011-04-06 Thread Shane Curcuru
Daniel Shahaf wrote: Shane Curcuru wrote on Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 10:38:04 -0400: Given the fact that in this case, we already know the people running the project, and the fact that we exercise some control over the apache-extras.org domain and hosting itself, I'd feel comfortable in having a muc

Re: low gsoc popularity this year?

2011-04-06 Thread ejaj on resurgence
Hi, i m researching for webapp manager for tuscany and m going to apply for that. Referencing to one of the post , it says its a joke. I just wanna ask if this infeasible at all and if there is any thing i could step up to work with. thanks.. On 4/6/11, Zhijie Shen wrote: > I'm a student that wil

Re: FAQ for apache-extras.org

2011-04-06 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Shane Curcuru wrote on Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 10:38:04 -0400: > Given the fact that in this case, we already know the people running > the project, and the fact that we exercise some control over the > apache-extras.org domain and hosting itself, I'd feel comfortable in > having a much more liberal "

Re: low gsoc popularity this year?

2011-04-06 Thread Zhijie Shen
I'm a student that will apply GSoC'11 with Apache. From the perspective of a student, I think one reason is that the idea list of Apache projects is released a bit late. In fact, a number of other organizations released the idea list long time before the organization application deadline. Hence som

Re: low gsoc popularity this year?

2011-04-06 Thread Andrus Adamchik
On Apr 6, 2011, at 6:13 PM, Sean Owen wrote: > Is anyone else's historical success rate low or is it just me? My experience with GSoC included successes, failures, and outcomes somewhere in the middle (e.g. a project was delivered, but we never integrated it in the codebase, and it was left t

Re: low gsoc popularity this year?

2011-04-06 Thread Sean Owen
For Mahout, I am not mentoring this year because none of the three GSoC projects I have mentored have come close to succeeding. (I am assured it's not my fault.) Of the 5 Mahout mentored last year, I can only point to 1 that was usefully successful. Is anyone else's historical success rate low or

Re: Returned post for dev@community.apache.org

2011-04-06 Thread Shane Curcuru
Ooops, trying again: Shane Curcuru wrote (in an earlier email that didn't get delivered): In general, projects at Apache Extras are just like any third party product, and should not use Apache marks in their product name. The only blanket exception is to use a Powered By or other similarly dis

Re: low gsoc popularity this year?

2011-04-06 Thread Luciano Resende
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:01 AM, Kathey Marsden wrote: > On 4/6/2011 1:40 AM, Sagara Gunathunga wrote: >> >> May be gathering such small factors will help to reach high popularity >> in next time.  Thanks Ulrich to bring this topic for a discussion. >> > In the small factors category, in Derby proj

Re: FAQ for apache-extras.org

2011-04-06 Thread Ross Gardler
That part of the FAQ is under the control of the trademarks committee. So I'm copying to that list. As a reminder, our policy is not to police apache-extras.org unless there is a complaint from an Apache Project. Ross On 06/04/2011 07:48, Gert Vanthienen wrote: L.S., In the FAQ at apache-

Re: low gsoc popularity this year?

2011-04-06 Thread Kathey Marsden
On 4/6/2011 1:40 AM, Sagara Gunathunga wrote: May be gathering such small factors will help to reach high popularity in next time. Thanks Ulrich to bring this topic for a discussion. In the small factors category, in Derby project we have something of a shortage of mentors this year, which I t

Re: low gsoc popularity this year?

2011-04-06 Thread Ross Gardler
On 06/04/2011 09:12, Ulrich Stärk wrote: I don't know how it has been in the last years, but until now we only have 32 proposals. There are still two days left but I doubt that we will see significantly more. Any ideas what (if any) might be wrong and what we could do? 32 is very low. I've se

Re: low gsoc popularity this year?

2011-04-06 Thread Edward J. Yoon
A lack of "Success Case" and "Challenging goal"? I would like to help them so they can be core committers or young open source star or "little doug cutting". :D Hama tasks are all full. P.S., Hama 0.2-incubating RC2 is being voted. Please review and vote if you can. On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 5:40

Re: low gsoc popularity this year?

2011-04-06 Thread Sagara Gunathunga
In last few years we did number of promotion programs in local universities during Jan/Feb period but due to various reasons we couldn't organize such events in this year. This is one of my observation from Sri Lanka but that can be a potential reason for some other countries too. May be gathering

Re: low gsoc popularity this year?

2011-04-06 Thread Ulrich Stärk
One explanation could be that with more orgs accepted this year the approximately same number of students spreads over more projects. On 06.04.2011 10:12, Ulrich Stärk wrote: > I don't know how it has been in the last years, but until now we only have 32 > proposals. There are > still two days l

low gsoc popularity this year?

2011-04-06 Thread Ulrich Stärk
I don't know how it has been in the last years, but until now we only have 32 proposals. There are still two days left but I doubt that we will see significantly more. Any ideas what (if any) might be wrong and what we could do? Uli