Google Summer of Code 2017 is coming

[Andy Seaborne <an...@apache.org>]

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Subject: Google Summer of Code 2017 is coming
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2017 20:50:47 +0100
From: Ulrich Strk <ul...@apache.org>

Hello PMCs (incubator Mentors, please forward this email to your podlings),

Google Summer of Code [1] is a program sponsored by Google allowing
students to spend their summer working on open source software. Students
will receive stipends for developing open source software full-time for
three months. Projects will provide mentoring and project ideas, and in
return have the chance to get new code developed and - most importantly
- to identify and bring in new committers.

The ASF will apply as a participating organization meaning individual
projects don't have to apply separately.

If you want to participate with your project we ask you to do the
following things as soon as possible but by no later than 2017-02-09:

1. understand what it means to be a mentor [2].

2. record your project ideas.

Just create issues in JIRA, label them with gsoc2017, and they will show
up at [3]. Please be as specific as possible when describing your
idea. Include the programming language, the tools and skills required,
but try not to scare potential students away. They are supposed to learn
what's required before the program starts.


Please use the COMDEV JIRA project for recording your ideas if your
project doesn't use JIRA (e.g.  httpd, ooo). Contact
dev@community.apache.org if you need assistance.

[4] contains some additional information (will be updated for 2017
shortly).

3. subscribe to mentors@community.apache.org; restricted to potential
mentors, meant to be used as a private list - general discussions on the
public dev@community.apache.org list as much as possible please). Use a
recognized address when subscribing (@apache.org or one of your alias
addresses on record).

Note that the ASF isn't accepted as a participating organization yet,
nevertheless you *have to* start recording your ideas now or we will not
get accepted.

Over the years we were able to complete hundreds of projects
successfully. Some of our prior students are active contributors now!
Let's make this year a success again!

Cheers,

Uli

[1] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/
[2] http://community.apache.org/guide-to-being-a-mentor.html
[3] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2017ideas
[4] http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html