Hi! I'm happy to facilitate this and get the details in for our application. Seems like we have lots of things that we could get students involved with, and of course, we tend to get interesting projects pitched to us that we haven't thought of before. I've attended the Mentor Summit after GSoC for the last two years, and found it to be a great resource for learning how all projects are recruiting and retaining new members. Many of these projects admire Postgres for it's stability over the years, and I've been able to communicate some of the work that we've all done on the commit fest, our review process and generally how our community works to many other projects. Those who would like to mentor and help administrate the program, please get in touch with me directly <selena@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. I'll set up some lists to keep us in sync, and we'll report out what happens. -selena ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: LH (Leslie Hawthorn) <lhospo@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 4:10 PM Subject: GSoC 2010 is on..... To: Google Summer of Code Mentors List <google-summer-of-code-mentors-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Hello folks, If you're not following the program discussion list, you may have missed this mail with some details about timing for GSoC 2010: http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-discuss/browse_thread/thread/d839c0b02ac15b3f Cheers, LH --- Hello everyone, Many of you were wondering if Google Summer of Code 2010 is on for 2010 and the answer is yes! We will begin accepting application from would-be mentoring organizations beginning March 8th at approximately 19:00 UTC, with applications closing on March 12th at 23:00 UTC. Students can apply between 19:00 UTC on March 29th to 19:00 UTC on April 9th. We will be updating the program website [0], including the FAQs [1], over the next few days. Not much is going to change except the timeline, though there are a few FAQs that will be added. If you have any questions in the interim please do send them to the list. Please note that questions about which project you should select, etc., will likely be responded to with "depends on your skill set," so please take the time to do some research [2] about which project is right for you. While mentoring organizations for 2010 will be announced until March 18th, a great number of the projects that have participated in the past [3] will return once again in 2010. Of course, that's not a guarantee and we cannot accept every great project that applies. But if you want to get a jump start on your participation in GSoC 2010, considering lurking in the IRC channel of a past participating project and seeing what useful things you can learn about their code base and community. Check out project forums to see if it's a place you'd like to spend your time. I'll be sending a follow up message in a few minutes about what to expect in the next few days/weeks and how you can help Google Summer of Code 2010. Google Summer of Code 2010 is on! Celebrate! [0] - http://socghop.appspot.com [1] - http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2009... [2] - http://delicious.com/gsoc2009 [3] - http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/program/accepted_orgs/google/gsoc2009 Cheers, LH -- Leslie Hawthorn Program Manager - Open Source Google Inc. -- http://chesnok.com/daily - me http://endpoint.com - work -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
