Re: [PHP-DEV] About GSoC 2009

Hello Johannes,

Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 12:29:12 PM, you wrote:

> Hi,

> last weekend at FOSDEM in Brussels Leslie Hawthorn announced this year's
> Google Summer of Code program. Meanwhile the FAQ including the timeline
> has been published.

> http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2009/faqs.html

> According to that participating organizations are published on March 18.
> As of then we should have a good ideas page motivating students to
> contact us early, while the official student applications won't start
> until March 23. The sooner we hear from them the better our selection
> process can be, that didn't run perfect last year.

> Currently the ideas page is still quite short. It would be nice to fill
> it up while ideas might be quite rough, too. Last year we had 10
> accepted projects, by now we have 3 ideas. If you volunteer as mentor
> please mind the program schedule, so you are available during that time
> and especially during the evaluation time. (While last year the dates
> where postponed by a week...) Last year it was a bit frustrating to get
> everybody to fill out this paperwork.

> http://wiki.php.net/gsoc/2009/

> Talking about paperwork: Scott agreed to do the bureaucratic work this
> year and to act as primary administrator. I hope we get it running
> smoother than last year where I jumped in just from time to time when I
> found out the original admin didn't have enough time.

> Everybody: come up with ideas and write them down
> Scott: run it from here :-)

As an update to this, I have filed the application. And Scott and I are
listed as admins.



Best regards,
 Marcus