Google Summer of Code - 2 days left

If you are planning to mentor a Google Summer of Code project, you  
have 2 days left to get your project up on our Summer of Code page:   
<http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/ 
GoogleSummerOfCode2006>.

Ted

On Apr 20, 2006, at 2:49 PM, Ted Leung wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> Google has officially announced the Summer of Code Program for 2006  
> <http://code.google.com/soc/>.  This is a program where Google  
> funds college students to work on specific projects which are  
> defined by various projects in the open source community.    This  
> program is a great opportunity for us to build up the communities  
> around Chandler, Cosmo, and Scooby.  It is also a great opportunity  
> for us to practice working with people who are not part of the OSAF  
> staff.
>
> In order to participate, we need a list of projects, with specific  
> descriptions of what is expected, as well as people who will serve  
> as mentors for those projects.  We have a list of projects at  
> <http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/TedLeung20060127>  
> but the descriptions need a bit more fleshing out so that students  
> have a good idea of what they are getting into.   You can see  
> examples of other projects idea lists linked off of the Summer of  
> Code site.   Examples of particularly good lists are:
>
> <http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCode2006>
> <http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2006/Ideas>
> <http://subversion.tigris.org/project_tasks.html>
> <http://www.mono-project.com/StudentProjects>
>
> One goal of Summer of Code is expose students to the open source  
> development process, so the expectation is that we will work with  
> the Summer of Code participants using the normal mechanisms that we  
> would use to work with anyone else.   The idea behind having  
> mentors is to ensure that someone will be responsible for  
> facilitating the student's participation in the project - answering  
> questions about tools, architecture, and code.
>
> Students begin signing up for projects between May 1 and May 8, so  
> we need to get our set of projects in shape fairly quickly.
>
> If you are going to be a mentor, you will need to sign up to be a  
> mentor via Google's Summer of Code web app.  Google is not  
> publishing the url for this publically (due to spamming concerns),  
> so please e-mail me and I will send you the link.
>
> I've created a Wiki page to track the Summer of Code process:  
> <http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/ 
> GoogleSummerOfCode2006>
>
> For more information on the Summer of Code
>
> Main Summer of Code Website <http://code.google.com/soc/>
> Summer of Code Terms of Service <http://code.google.com/soc/tos.html>
> Mentoring Organization FAQ <http://code.google.com/soc/mentorfaq.html>
>
> If you have any questions or need any help, please feel e-mail me  
> or respond to this message on the general@ list.
>
> Ted
>
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