From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: GSoC 2012 application process Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 04:11:14 -0500 Message-ID: <20120302091114.GA3984@sigill.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Mar 02 10:11:54 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S3OWo-0005aH-0x for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:11:54 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757818Ab2CBJLr (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Mar 2012 04:11:47 -0500 Received: from 99-108-226-0.lightspeed.iplsin.sbcglobal.net ([99.108.226.0]:35174 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964952Ab2CBJLR (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Mar 2012 04:11:17 -0500 Received: (qmail 16336 invoked by uid 107); 2 Mar 2012 09:11:22 -0000 Received: from sigill.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.7) (smtp-auth username relayok, mechanism cram-md5) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with ESMTPA; Fri, 02 Mar 2012 04:11:22 -0500 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 02 Mar 2012 04:11:14 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: The Google Summer of Code 2012 application process is underway. We have participated for the past 5 years, so I assume we want to do so again. If you don't know what GSoC is, read this: https://code.google.com/soc/ I've volunteered to be the organization admin again, but I would be happy to step aside if somebody else wants to do it. I've started things off by posting a draft of our application and starting a wiki page for project ideas: https://github.com/peff/git/wiki/SoC-2012-Application https://github.com/peff/git/wiki/SoC-2012-Ideas The application is due March 9th (next Friday). At this point, we need: 1. Somebody to volunteer as a backup admin. 2. Project ideas to be added to the ideas page. 3. Volunteers to mentor students. Our criteria for mentors in the past has been to accept only those who have a history of contributing to git. But if you have an idea for a project and don't feel that you would be capable of mentoring, please feel free to start a discussion on the list. You may interest other people who can volunteer to mentor for it. 4. People to read over the application and suggest improvements. It's adapted from last year's application. The general meaning should be the same, though I did bring it up to date as well clean up a few awkward bits. In the past, we've used the kernel.org wiki for developing the SoC materials. However, it's still not editable, and I don't think we have a plan for what the "new" git wiki will be. I've put things up on this GitHub wiki in the meantime; they can be migrated to an official wiki if and when that happens. I think you'll need a GitHub login to edit the wiki pages via the web interface. You can also clone it here: git://github.com/peff/git.wiki.git and I will be happy to take patches on the list. -Peff