Re: Mentoring for GNOME in Google Summer of Code

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad cs toronto edu>]

People have been asking whether projects not part of the official
GNOME release can be target of ideas/proposals.  The answer is
yes, and in fact we encourage new innovative applications to get
a hand from the Summer of Code program.  See the list of approved
projects from last year for example:

  http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2005

If you are a big project (like Inkscape for example) and willing
to handle the administration and paperwork, you may want to
participate as a separate organization.  That probably helps
getting more projects in total, and you will get the donation
yourself, but we will still be happy to cover your project in
GNOME if you decide not to separate.


behdad


On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, it was written:

> Hello freedom lovers,
>
> As you probably know by now, GNOME will be participating in the
> Google Summer of Code again this year.  For details about the
> program visit:
>
>   http://code.google.com/soc/
>
> and this page about the GNOME involvement:
>
>   http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2006
>
>
> We are now looking for mentors.  To apply for mentorship you need
> a Google account (GMail account works) and should sign up here:
>
>   http://code.google.com/soc/mentor_step1.html
>
> and then choose GNOME as (one of) the organization you want to
> mentor for.  Of course we do not promise to assign projects to
> everybody signing up, but we try our best to optimize our use of
> resources.  Also note that, mentors are volunteers, and will be
> rewarded by:
>
>   1) gaining experience mentoring a motivated student,
>
>   2) having a student doing paid work on your favorite project,
>
>   3) potential to get the said student as a longterm new
> developer for your project,
>
>   4) getting a Google Summer of Code t-shirt,
>
>   5) help GNOME Foundation get a $500 donation per project.
>
>
> Based on previous year's experience, we are targeting 20 projects
> for now, but if we get enough volunteers, ideas, and good
> applications, we may go much higher as well.  The Mono Project
> did an excellent job last year in best using the SoC programme
> and we should learn from them.  Good old Migy again ;).
>
>
> You are encouraged to append ideas to the pool of ideas:
>
>   http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2006/Ideas
>
> Please take some time and think about what your project(s) can
> benefit most from before adding random ideas to that page.
> While we do not guarantee that the ideas listed there are
> necessarily at the level of winning a grant, we don't want to
> mislead the students.
>
> And also have in mind that the coding period of the project is
> only three months long (it was two months last year), and the
> coder is a mortal student that is probably not involved in Free
> Software development yet, let alone GNOME.  So don't list "Write
> Topaz" as one of the ideas for example.
>
>
> Your SoC administrators,
>
> Behdad Esfahbod
> Vincent Untz
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