Google Summer of Code

[Steve Poole <sp...@googlemail.com>]

Google opens its doors soon for Summer of Code submissions  (see here
http://code.google.com/soc/)    ( ASF's standpoint is here
http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCodeMentor)   Its sounds like a great
way to get students into open source and to get some  ideas into code.I can
see many places in Kato where we could benefit from the help (and give the
students a real challenge).

I'm more than happy to provide mentoring to students (done it more than a
few times) .  However I think apart from our estimed mentors we're  not
really ready to help students learn about the ways of open source.      Am I
being to conservative ?

Re: Google Summer of Code

[Steve Poole <sp...@googlemail.com>]

Thanks Ant.

 So  if its possible to go for a submission we should agree what we'd want
them to work on.
I can see two obvious areas of possibility

   1. Creating or substantially improving one or more of the example tools
   we are proposing .
   2. Getting Kato linked into an existing tool(s)

What do others think about this?


On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 1:50 PM, ant elder <an...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Steve Poole <spoole167@googlemail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Google opens its doors soon for Summer of Code submissions  (see here
> > http://code.google.com/soc/)    ( ASF's standpoint is here
> > http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCodeMentor)   Its sounds like a
> > great
> > way to get students into open source and to get some  ideas into code.I
> can
> > see many places in Kato where we could benefit from the help (and give
> the
> > students a real challenge).
> >
> > I'm more than happy to provide mentoring to students (done it more than a
> > few times) .  However I think apart from our estimed mentors we're  not
> > really ready to help students learn about the ways of open source.
>  Am
> > I
> > being to conservative ?
> >
>
> There have been GSoC students doing projects relating to Incubator podlings
> with mentors from the podling in the past so it is possible. The ASF GSoC
> page does suggest mentors should be an Apache member or experienced
> committer but I've not seen that strictly policed. There has been talk of
> trying to give students multiple mentors, so if you get a student with a
> Kato proposal accepted then you can always just recruit another experienced
> mentor to help if it becomes an issue - I've been a GSoC mentor in the past
> so I can help if came to that.
>
>   ...ant
>

Re: Google Summer of Code

[ant elder <an...@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Steve Poole <sp...@googlemail.com>wrote:

> Google opens its doors soon for Summer of Code submissions  (see here
> http://code.google.com/soc/)    ( ASF's standpoint is here
> http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCodeMentor)   Its sounds like a
> great
> way to get students into open source and to get some  ideas into code.I can
> see many places in Kato where we could benefit from the help (and give the
> students a real challenge).
>
> I'm more than happy to provide mentoring to students (done it more than a
> few times) .  However I think apart from our estimed mentors we're  not
> really ready to help students learn about the ways of open source.      Am
> I
> being to conservative ?
>

There have been GSoC students doing projects relating to Incubator podlings
with mentors from the podling in the past so it is possible. The ASF GSoC
page does suggest mentors should be an Apache member or experienced
committer but I've not seen that strictly policed. There has been talk of
trying to give students multiple mentors, so if you get a student with a
Kato proposal accepted then you can always just recruit another experienced
mentor to help if it becomes an issue - I've been a GSoC mentor in the past
so I can help if came to that.

   ...ant