Fw: Google Summer of Code 2011 is almost there

[Michael Glavassevich <mr...@ca.ibm.com>]

FYI.

Michael Glavassevich
XML Parser Development
IBM Toronto Lab
E-mail: mrglavas@ca.ibm.com
E-mail: mrglavas@apache.org

Ulrich Stärk <ul...@apache.org> wrote on 03/08/2011 05:41:56 PM:

> Hello PMCs,
>
> Google Summer of Code is the ideal opportunity for you to attract new
> contributors to your projects.
>
> If you want to participate with your project you now need to
>
>  - understand what it means to be a mentor [1]
>  - propose your project ideas. Just label your issues with gsoc2011
> in JIRA and
>    they will show up at [2]. See also [1].
>  - subscribe to code-awards@apache.org (restricted to mentors, meantto be
used
>    as a private list - general discussions on the public
>    dev@community.apache.org list as much as possible please)
>
> The ASF has applied as a participating organization with GSoC, your
project
> doesn't need to do that. See [3] for more information. Note that theASF
isn't
> accepted yet, nevertheless you *really* should start recording your ideas
now.
>
> Last year we had 39 students completing GSoC successfully, some of which
are
> now active contributors to the projects they worked on. Let's make this a
> success again this year!
>
> On behalf of the GSoC 2011 admins,
>
> Uli
>
> [1] http://community.apache.org/guide-to-being-a-mentor.html
> [2] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2011tasks
> [3] http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html