Summer of Code - time to do something, anything ... but not by me

2010-12-22 Thread Karsten Wade
Folks: For this coming year, if Fedora chooses to participate in the Google Summer of Code (and I think we should), I have decided that I am not going to be involved. This is not complete abandonment. In fact, the below blog post is the first of potentially several that can be part of a package

Re: summer coding and you

2010-04-19 Thread Karsten Wade
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 09:17:09PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > I was just cursing the fact that libguestfs has several cracking > summer projects, but the GSoC deadline has passed, and now I see that > Fedora has this (which I'd never heard about before). Good news then! Grab us on #fed

summer coding and you

2010-04-14 Thread Karsten Wade
I'm talking to you because I know some of you work at companies, organizations, foundations, consortiums, and so forth. And you may be in the perfect position to sponsor a student for Fedora Summer Coding. We're moving the schedule back an extra month to give a chance for more sponsors. The prop

ideas for Summer Coding deadline moved to 14 April

2010-04-07 Thread Karsten Wade
In today's SIG meeting we finalized the Summer Coding 2010 schedule, and that included adding more time for ideas to be listed for students. The new deadline is next Wed. 14 April. We are inviting students to begin working on proposals starting today, with those due on 21 April. https://fedorapro

Summer Coding 2010 ideas due 9 April

2010-04-06 Thread Karsten Wade
While we finish the Summer Coding 2010 page (http://bit.ly/FSC-2010), it is past time for you all to let us know the problems you would like to see solved by summer coding/internship students. By Friday 09 April. Idea page is here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Summer_Coding_2010_ideas