Process for Requesting to become a GSOC Mentor through Apache Software Foundation

[Ed Cable <ed...@mifos.org>]

Hi all,

This is a follow-up to my previous email about GSOC 2021 and for those on
our mobile development check-in this morning, the email which outlines the
process for requesting to become a mentor. Once again you don't need to be
a committer to be a mentor. It would be helpful but serving as a mentor is
a good way to build merit towards committership.

Per the discussion we've had on our mentor list, unfortunately Mifos wasn't
selected as a mentoring organization for the 2021 Google Summer of Code. We
will still be able participate at a more scaled back level under the
umbrella of the Apache Software Foundation for projects contributing to
Apache Fineract repos like Fineract, Fineract-CN, Fineract-CN Mobile and
any new projects that would reside under ASF.

This will give us a chance to continue engaging with aspirants who have
already begun contributing and to give our community members that were
eager to mentor this year that opportunity as well.

All of our tickets tagged with the label "gsoc2021" are tasks we're
proposing for GSOC 2021. That list can be found here:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12350402.

Those tickets will flow into the ideas list for ASF at
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COMDEV/GSoC+2021+Ideas+list
once the org admins run the script to pull from the issue tracker. New
ideas can be created by creating tickets with that tag.

*Requesting to be a Mentor*
To request to be a mentor simply send the below. Since you are not a member
of the private PMC list the message will go into a moderate queue and then
get approved to be viewed and responded to by PMC.

Once the request is acknowledged by a member of the PMC, Maxim will send
you an invite from the GSOC portal to your specified email address to
register as a mentor.

I will be scheduling a call for early next week to discuss mentoring and
our current ideas list prior to the application window opening up. Right
now however is a critical time to have all our ideas fleshed out so we can
engage with the students who are making contributions now as they are of
the highest quality and motivation so we need to capture their interest now!

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Mentor request email template for Apache Fineract
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to: private@fineract.apache.org
cc: mentors@community.apache.org
subject: GSoC 2021 mentor request for <mentor name>

Apache Fineract PMC,

Please acknowledge my request to become a mentor for Google Summer of
Code 2021 projects for Apache Fineract.

I would like to receive the mentor invite to <email address>

<custom content>
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Cheers,

Ed




mentor request email template for Apache Fineract
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to: private@<project>.apache.org
cc: mentors@community.apache.org
subject: GSoC 2021 mentor request for <mentor name>

<project> PMC,

please acknowledge my request to become a mentor for Google Summer of
Code 2021 projects for Apache <project>.

I would like to receive the mentor invite to <email address>

<custom content>

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Maxim Solodovnik <so...@apache.org>
Date: Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 7:27 AM
Subject: Google Summer of Code 2021 Mentor Registration GSOC
To: dev <de...@community.apache.org>, mentors <me...@community.apache.org>


Dear PMCs,

I'm happy to announce that the ASF has made it onto the list of
accepted organizations for
Google Summer of Code 2021! [1,2]

It is now time for mentors to sign up, so please pass this email on to
your community
and podlings. If you aren’t already subscribed to
mentors@community.apache.org
you should do so now else you might miss important information.

Mentor signup requires two steps: mentor signup in Google's system [3]
and PMC acknowledgement.

If you want to mentor a project in this year's SoC you will have to

1. Be an Apache committer. (not a MUST)
2. Request an acknowledgement from the PMC for which you want to mentor
projects. Use the below template and *do not forget to copy
mentors@community.apache.org*. We will use the email address you
indicate to send the invite to be a mentor for Apache.

PMCs, read carefully please.

We request that each mentor is acknowledged by a PMC member. This is to
ensure
the mentor is in good standing with the community. When you receive a
request for
acknowledgement, please ACK it and cc mentors@community.apache.org

Lastly, it is not yet too late to record your ideas in Jira (see my
previous emails for details).
Students will now begin to explore ideas so if you haven’t already
done so, record your ideas
immediately!

Best regards

Maxim

mentor request email template:
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to: private@<project>.apache.org
cc: mentors@community.apache.org
subject: GSoC 2021 mentor request for <mentor name>

<project> PMC,

please acknowledge my request to become a mentor for Google Summer of
Code 2021 projects for Apache <project>.

I would like to receive the mentor invite to <email address>

<custom content>

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[1] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/
[2] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/5750272384565248/
[3] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/


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