[opensuse-project] GSOC
Hi all, Soon organizations will be able to submit their application to Google for the Summer of Code 2011! It would of course be awesome if openSUSE could be part of this. So it is time to start putting proposals in; add ideas, offer to mentor them - but if you're interested we also need people to help out organizing the GSOC2011! Manu Gupta already prepared an extensive GSOC wiki page: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GSOC_2011 Ideas & mentors can be added on this page: http://en.opensuse.org/GSOC_2011_Ideas Go in, add ideas & your name as mentor! Cheers, Jos
On 2011-02-16 Jos wrote:
Hi all,
Soon organizations will be able to submit their application to Google for the Summer of Code 2011! It would of course be awesome if openSUSE could be part of this. So it is time to start putting proposals in; add ideas, offer to mentor them - but if you're interested we also need people to help out organizing the GSOC2011!
Manu Gupta already prepared an extensive GSOC wiki page: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GSOC_2011
Ideas & mentors can be added on this page: http://en.opensuse.org/GSOC_2011_Ideas
Go in, add ideas & your name as mentor!
Ping!!! We have a little over 2 weeks to apply for the summer of code and really needs lots and lots of ideas and mentors! Really, this matters for openSUSE - if we're to grow (or even stay the same) we need new contributors and GSOC is an excellent way of finding them! If you are busy, think about priorities, think long term vs short term. Seriously, mentoring a few ppl is more important than fixing bugs in 11.4. Yes, I really think so. Because if we don't mentor people, next time you'll have to fix bugs alone again. If you mentor 1 or 2 students, maybe next time you have help and can fix more bugs & mentor more people. It is like with communication (like blogging). If you've done something great but nobody knows, it didn't happen, sorry... I'm fairly sure that the success of projects depends more on communication than technical choices, design or code quality. Maybe that is a sad thing, but it is reality. It is wat is hurting openSUSE - we're better at technology than communication. We have to change that if we still want to be relevant in 5 years. So step one: become a mentor for GSOC and add a few things you'd like someone to do and you can help someone with. Step two: talk to the world about what you do. And notice that the 'world' doesn't read IRC. Sending a mail to news@opensuse.org with some info (braindump style) & screenshots of something cool which could use help, new hackers & some exposure is a perfect way of doing that. The news team will help write something! Cheers, Jos
Cheers, Jos
On 2011-02-16 Jos wrote:
Hi all,
Soon organizations will be able to submit their application to Google for the Summer of Code 2011! It would of course be awesome if openSUSE could be part of this. So it is time to start putting proposals in; add ideas, offer to mentor them - but if you're interested we also need people to help out organizing the GSOC2011!
Manu Gupta already prepared an extensive GSOC wiki page: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GSOC_2011
Ideas & mentors can be added on this page: http://en.opensuse.org/GSOC_2011_Ideas
Go in, add ideas & your name as mentor!
Ping!!! We have a little over 2 weeks to apply for the summer of code and really needs lots and lots of ideas and mentors!
Really, this matters for openSUSE - if we're to grow (or even stay the same) we need new contributors and GSOC is an excellent way of finding them! You're right, I already added some ideas for the Build Service to the GSoC
On Monday 21 February 2011 04:39:02 Jos Poortvliet wrote: page. These are by no way complete and I'll elaborate on them in the next days.
If you are busy, think about priorities, think long term vs short term. Seriously, mentoring a few ppl is more important than fixing bugs in 11.4. Yes, I really think so. Because if we don't mentor people, next time you'll have to fix bugs alone again. If you mentor 1 or 2 students, maybe next time you have help and can fix more bugs & mentor more people.
It is like with communication (like blogging). If you've done something great but nobody knows, it didn't happen, sorry... I'm fairly sure that the success of projects depends more on communication than technical choices, design or code quality. Maybe that is a sad thing, but it is reality. It is wat is hurting openSUSE - we're better at technology than communication. We have to change that if we still want to be relevant in 5 years. This is for sure the area where we can improve the most. We're not bad at it but we can do way better. Regarding GSoC, could this be a job for the Boosters?
So step one: become a mentor for GSOC and add a few things you'd like someone to do and you can help someone with. Step two: talk to the world about what you do. And notice that the 'world' doesn't read IRC. Sending a mail to news@opensuse.org with some info (braindump style) & screenshots of something cool which could use help, new hackers & some exposure is a perfect way of doing that. The news team will help write something!
How about double posting this on opensuse-buildservice and opensuse-packaging mailinglists? And put this onto your own blog, too! -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Sascha Peilicke http://saschpe.wordpress.com
On 16/02/11 19:09, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
Manu Gupta already prepared an extensive GSOC wiki page: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GSOC_2011
Ideas & mentors can be added on this page: http://en.opensuse.org/GSOC_2011_Ideas
Go in, add ideas & your name as mentor!
This also applies to students. If you have an idea and you are looking for a mentor, just add your idea as well (and fill in the student field + put MENTOR NEEDED to Mentor field). Btw, mentoring organizations (i.e. openSUSE) can start applying on 28th Feb and we can do so until 11th March (which is the application deadline). -- Best Regards / S pozdravom, Pavol RUSNAK SUSE LINUX, s.r.o openSUSE Boosters Team Lihovarska 1060/12 PGP 0xA6917144 19000 Praha 9 prusnak[at]opensuse.org Czech Republic -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 16 February 2011 19:09:29 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
Soon organizations will be able to submit their application to Google for the Summer of Code 2011! It would of course be awesome if openSUSE could be part of this. So it is time to start putting proposals in; add ideas, offer to mentor them - but if you're interested we also need people to help out organizing the GSOC2011!
It would be awesome, if openSUSE would participate again. The summer of code is a great opportunity to win some contributors. I'm willing to help out with organizing as my time permits.
Manu Gupta already prepared an extensive GSOC wiki page: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GSOC_2011
This already looks great. A couple of comments on the organisation application: * To the reasons why we want to join GSoC I would add that we hope to win some new contributors, and that we want to provide students the opportunity to get in touch with the broad range of projects and technologies, which are part of openSUSE, so they can learn and grow, and become part of the free software community. * In the application form we should ask for some more details about the student itself, e.g. code samples, previous contributions to openSUSE or other projects, why the apply for openSUSE, how much time they can spend on the summer of code, if they have any other obligations during the summer of code, what they expect from their mentors. * For selection of the mentors I would put dedication to the community first, and being experts or luminaries in their fields second. openSUSE can provide quite a bit here. GSoC and coaching experience is nice, but not the most important factor, from my point of view. We all constantly learn in any case, be it students or mentors. * Ideally we could also add to the mentor selection that Novell is supporting employees to act as mentors. Jos, do you think we could get a statement here?
Ideas & mentors can be added on this page: http://en.opensuse.org/GSOC_2011_Ideas
Couldn't we already start collecting ideas in FATE? I'm sure we already have
quite some ideas there, which could be polished into a good project for the
summer of code, and also for new ideas we have a nicer way to handle them in
FATE than we have on a Wiki page.
--
Cornelius Schumacher
Hello Jos, Am 16.02.11, 16:09 -0200 schrieb Jos Poortvliet:
Ideas & mentors can be added on this page: http://en.opensuse.org/GSOC_2011_Ideas
Go in, add ideas & your name as mentor!
Here is a project idea around a public data repository: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GSOC_2011_Ideas#ICC_Device_Profile_Repositor... Its intented to complement the work in the multimedia:color_management OBS repository. The new data repository shall be open to all distributions and I hoped it might fit well along side OBS for software. kind regards Kai-Uwe Behrmann -- developing for colour management www.behrmann.name + www.oyranos.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org
On 2011-02-21 Kai wrote:
Hello Jos,
Am 16.02.11, 16:09 -0200 schrieb Jos Poortvliet:
Ideas & mentors can be added on this page: http://en.opensuse.org/GSOC_2011_Ideas
Go in, add ideas & your name as mentor!
Here is a project idea around a public data repository: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GSOC_2011_Ideas#ICC_Device_Profile_Re pository Its intented to complement the work in the multimedia:color_management OBS repository. The new data repository shall be open to all distributions and I hoped it might fit well along side OBS for software.
kind regards Kai-Uwe Behrmann
Awesome, Kai, be sure to give it some attention (eg in a blog) to increase the chance that a student picks it up!
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