Hi Patrick, This is great news. Not only for the students who will get a chance to discover Ceph in the process. But also because it means you managed to demonstrate that Ceph is a project supported by a community. Congrats :-) On 24/02/2014 21:42, Patrick McGarry wrote: > Hey Cephers, > > This week we found out that the Ceph project has been accepted as a > mentoring organization [0] for the Google Summer of Code [1]. This > means that Google will foot the bill for some number of student > developers this summer ($6000, of which $5500 goes to the student and > $500 goes to Ceph) to work on Ceph. Since this is our first year we > can probably expect 2-3 slots, depending on how the program shakes > out. > > We have some amazing mentors who volunteered this year. Feel free to > swing by the Ceph GSoC 2014 page [2] and check them out! > > The next step is to recruit students to submit proposals based on > either our list of project ideas [3], or something unique that they > want to work on. Students may start discussions with mentoring orgs > at any time, but official submissions don't open until March 10th (the > sooner they submit in that window, the better!). > > Once proposals are in I will rank them (with some help from the > mentors), Google will allocate us N slots, and the top N submissions > will be accepted and funded. I am in the process of putting together > some promotional materials to get the word out, but if you know > students who may be interested please send them my way and I can help > shepherd them through the process. > > Feel free to hit me with questions if you have them. Hooray for GSoC 2014! > > [0]http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/list/public/google/gsoc2014 > > [1]https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014 > > [2]http://ceph.com/gsoc2014/ > > [3]http://ceph.com/gsoc2014/gsoc-ideas-2014/ > > > Best Regards, > > Patrick McGarry > Director, Community || Inktank > http://ceph.com || http://inktank.com > @scuttlemonkey || @ceph || @inktank > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- Loïc Dachary, Artisan Logiciel Libre
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