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.
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Cornelius Schumacher