Dear GNOME-lovers, Congratulations: you did it! The GNOME community is glad to welcome you, and to have you participate in the Google Summer of Code and work on GNOME-related stuff! Some of you already know the GNOME community quite well, but it might not be the case for everyone of you. That's not a problem: SoC has a community bonding time, where you will have a few weeks to get to know the community before starting the real work. That's a really good thing, and we hope you'll be able to see how great, friendly and helpful the GNOME community is! The first thing we want you to do is to contact your mentor. Write him a nice mail or buy him a beer (or some juice) if you happen to live in the same city :-) If during the SoC, you have a problem with your mentor (lack of communication, or misunderstandings, or deep disagreements, or anything else), don't hesitate to report that to the GNOME administrators (Sandy, Ruben, Christophe, and Daniel): they'll be there to help with this kind of things and their goal is to make sure that you feel good, so they will work hard to fix any issue with your mentor. But hopefully, this won't be needed: all mentors and administrators are nice people (or at least, they're supposed to be ;-)). After sending a mail to your mentor, you should go subscribe to our mailing list for the Summer of Code: http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-soc-list Feel free to use this list for discussion between all mentored students, or to ask questions about GNOME, or about the community or about anything you need. We'll check next week if you're all subscribed since this is the list where mails will be sent when we need to reach all of you. It's also the list that you will use for your status reports. To begin things, it would be great that you send to this list an introduction mail so that the whole community knows about you, your project, your plans, etc. Another list that might be of interest to you is the gnome-love mailing list: http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-love That's also a good place to start asking questions if you have problems with building GNOME, or if you're not sure how to do something. There's also an IRC channel for SoC and GNOME: #soc on GIMPNet (irc.gnome.org). Feel free to join it and chat there. You can also join #gnome-hackers where most GNOME people are, and other channels that might be of interest to you. See this page for more information: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeIrcChannels If you prefer to use an address different from your gmail (or google account) address to communicate, please tell the administrators. They'll make a note about it somewhere. Also, if you have a blog, we'd love to know the URL and get a hackergotchi for you :-) That's all for now. If you have any questions, feel free to send a mail to the administrators or the mailing lists, or ask your mentor. Small summary: + make sure you're in contact with your mentor(s) + subscribe to the gnome-soc-list mailing list + introduce yourself to the community + (optional) subscribe to the gnome-love mailing list + (optional) start using IRC + (optional) send your blog information and a hackergotchi to the administrators Welcome and Congratulations! -- this mail was sent using 100% recycled electrons ================================================ daniel g. siegel <dgsiegel gnome org> http://home.cs.tum.edu/~siegel gnupg key id: 0x6EEC9E62 fingerprint: DE5B 1F64 9034 1FB6 E120 DE10 268D AFD5 6EEC 9E62 encrypted email preferred
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