Hi, Google announced the 2013 incarnation of the Google Summer of Code program on Feb 11: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013 Git has taken part in previous years, so I figure somebody should get the ball rolling again! The following items need to be sorted out: * We need an org admin. AFAIK this was done by Peff and Shawn in tandem last year. Would you do it again? * We should prepare an "ideas page". Last year, Peff made one on https://github.com/peff/git/wiki/SoC-2012-Ideas I couldn't edit it there over git access[1], so I made a clone in "my" github wiki: https://github.com/trast/git/wiki/SoC-2013-Ideas I'll volunteer to manage that wiki[2]. Please either edit it directly, or send me patches or pull requests. I won't really have time to properly review them, but I'll do my best to merge everything. * Naturally that ideas page is a bit stale now, and three projects shorter. Please propose new ideas and refresh or delete the old ones! In particular some projects spawned long discussions on the list, and the results of those discussions should be integrated to avoid deja vus. * We should have a pool of mentors and rough mentor-project matchings. I gathered a -- certainly incomplete -- list of previous mentors and students in the Cc field; maybe some of you are interested again? If so, propose your own ideas and/or list yourself in the "proposed mentors" for some existing projects. (I cleared all those fields for now.) * Even if you don't want to mentor, you can still contribute by helping with discussing and ranking proposals, especially immediately before and after the project submission deadline (May 3). If we want to participate again, we need to get together an org application until *March 29* 19:00 UTC, and it won't exactly hurt to have the ideas page settled until then too. It would be really nice if we could do this again, I think GSoC is a great opportunity both for Git and the involved students. Cheers Thomas Footnotes: [1] That's a bit silly really, since I *can* edit it via the web interface. Peff, perhaps you can get that fixed? [2] Unless Peff wants to take it over again? You could just pull it from the git version, it's based on your history. -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html