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