Re: Google Summer of Code

At 1:50 PM -0400 6/11/05, Jason Seeley wrote:
>I'm interested in working on the Mac OSX port as part of Google's
>Summer of Code program, but I think I missed the first application
>deadline. Is it still possible to get signed up or am I out until
>next year..? I'd still be interested in working on this project, let
>me know what's involved.


Thanks for bringing that program to my/our attention. For those reading along :

	<http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html>
	<http://code.google.com/summfaq.html>
	<http://code.google.com/mentfaq.html>

OpenOffice.org summer code project ideas are at :

	<http://development.openoffice.org/summerprojects.html>

which are a SUBSET of all the OpenOffice.org ideas at :

	<http://development.openoffice.org/todo.html>

Unfortunately porting to Mac OS X is not one of the suggested summer
projects, so I think you won't be able to use porting to Mac OS X as a
Google Summer of Code project. I don't speak for OpenOffice.org, so I am
not the final arbitrator on decisions like this.


The deadlines are :

May 31st:	Start of application process on code.google.com
June 1st:	Last Day new Organizations will be listed on code.google.com
Interim Period:	Back and Forth with applicants on the Summer-Discuss Google
Group
June 14th:	Final application submission deadline.
June 24th:	All applications approved or rejected. Cut $500 checks for
initial funding.
Interim Period:	Give the students a helping hand and guidance.
August 3rd:	Google gives a preliminary progress report at OSCON
September 1st:	Deadline for all student work (pencils down).
September 30th:	All adviser feedback in.
October 1st:	Announce successful participants. Cut final checks and send
t-shirts.


If working on one of the suggested summer projects is not something you are
looking for, you could either work on the porting to Mac OS X project, or
try one of the Mac OS X specific ideas suggested below :

	<http://www.dashboardbuddha.com/OOo/specs/index.html>

Of course, you won't be paid for any of these projects <grin>, but your
help would be appreciated.

Hope this helps.


>Thanks,
>Jason


Regards, Terry