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Posted to dev@community.apache.org by Ulrich Stärk <ul...@apache.org> on 2013/10/24 11:21:06 UTC
Re: Fwd: [GSoC Mentors] Deadline for Google Code-in 2013 Mentoring
Org Apps is Monday, Oct 28th at 19:00 UTC
No. I have forwarded this information to the ComDev PMC a few weeks back but nobody seems to have an
interest in driving this.
I think we have never participated in GCI because the tasks don't match well with what we do and
because mentoring juvenile high-school students is something very different than mentoring adult
college students and probably a lot more time-consuming too.
Cheers,
Uli
On 2013-10-24 11:14, Sebastien Goasguen wrote:
> Are you submitting something ?
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> *From: *Stephanie <sttaylor@google.com <ma...@google.com>>
>> *Subject: **[GSoC Mentors] Deadline for Google Code-in 2013 Mentoring Org Apps is Monday, Oct 28th
>> at 19:00 UTC*
>> *Date: *October 23, 2013 8:58:54 PM EDT
>> *To: *google-summer-of-code-mentors-list@googlegroups.com
>> <ma...@googlegroups.com>
>>
>> Hi GSoC Mentors and Org Admins,
>>
>> Just a quick reminder that for those organizations interested in participating in Google Code-in
>> 2013 [0] the deadline to apply is in 5 days - Monday, October 28th at 19:00 UTC.
>>
>> If your org has decided it would like to apply to participate in the contest, please read the
>> Mentor Information [1] to make sure you have the time and capacity to participate in the contest.
>> You can then go ahead and fill out the application [2] on Melange now. The person filling out the
>> org app must already be registered in Melange from a prior instance of Google Code-in or Google
>> Summer of Code in order to access the program application for GCI 2013.
>>
>> Please read over the rules for participating as an organization in GCI before applying, they can
>> be found on the Organization Agreement [3].
>>
>> Again this year the participating organizations will be choosing their top 2 contributors during
>> the contest period, every org will have 2 students represented on the Grand Prize Trip.
>>
>> The most important part of your application is the tasks list, be sure to have at least 4 tasks in
>> each of the 5 categories on your app. The Task list gives you an opportunity to think about how
>> your org would break up tasks into bite size chunks for students to work on (sometimes this can be
>> a bit tricky). This is also a great way for orgs to see how easy/difficult it will be for them to
>> come up with tasks for the contest. Orgs should expect to have between 150-300 tasks completed by
>> students throughout the 7 week program. The orgs that are chosen to participate will need to be
>> prepared to have at least 75 tasks on their page when the contest opens for students on Nov 18th.
>>
>> If you have any questions please contact this list or you can contact me directly at
>> sttaylor@google.com <ma...@google.com>. Thanks.
>>
>> We will announce the GCI 2013 Mentoring orgs on Friday, November 1st.
>>
>> [0] developers.google.com/open-source/gci <http://developers.google.com/open-source/gci>
>>
>> [1] https://code.google.com/p/google-code-in/wiki/GCIMentorInfo2013
>> <https://code.google.com/p/google-code-in/wiki/GCIMentorInfo2013>
>>
>> [2] http://www.google-melange.com/gci/org/application/google/gci2013
>> <http://www.google-melange.com/gci/org/application/google/gci2013>
>>
>> [3] http://www.google-melange.com/gci/document/show/gci_program/google/gci2013/org_admin_agreement
>> <http://www.google-melange.com/gci/document/show/gci_program/google/gci2013/org_admin_agreement>
>>
>>
>> Best,
>> Stephanie Taylor
>>
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Re: [GSoC Mentors] Deadline for Google Code-in 2013 Mentoring Org Apps is Monday, Oct 28th at 19:00 UTC
Posted by Sebastien Goasguen <ru...@gmail.com>.
On Oct 24, 2013, at 5:21 AM, Ulrich Stärk <ul...@apache.org> wrote:
> No. I have forwarded this information to the ComDev PMC a few weeks back but nobody seems to have an
> interest in driving this.
>
> I think we have never participated in GCI because the tasks don't match well with what we do and
> because mentoring juvenile high-school students is something very different than mentoring adult
> college students and probably a lot more time-consuming too.
Yes I agree. I was just wondering if you were submitting or not.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Uli
>
> On 2013-10-24 11:14, Sebastien Goasguen wrote:
>> Are you submitting something ?
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>>> *From: *Stephanie <sttaylor@google.com <ma...@google.com>>
>>> *Subject: **[GSoC Mentors] Deadline for Google Code-in 2013 Mentoring Org Apps is Monday, Oct 28th
>>> at 19:00 UTC*
>>> *Date: *October 23, 2013 8:58:54 PM EDT
>>> *To: *google-summer-of-code-mentors-list@googlegroups.com
>>> <ma...@googlegroups.com>
>>>
>>> Hi GSoC Mentors and Org Admins,
>>>
>>> Just a quick reminder that for those organizations interested in participating in Google Code-in
>>> 2013 [0] the deadline to apply is in 5 days - Monday, October 28th at 19:00 UTC.
>>>
>>> If your org has decided it would like to apply to participate in the contest, please read the
>>> Mentor Information [1] to make sure you have the time and capacity to participate in the contest.
>>> You can then go ahead and fill out the application [2] on Melange now. The person filling out the
>>> org app must already be registered in Melange from a prior instance of Google Code-in or Google
>>> Summer of Code in order to access the program application for GCI 2013.
>>>
>>> Please read over the rules for participating as an organization in GCI before applying, they can
>>> be found on the Organization Agreement [3].
>>>
>>> Again this year the participating organizations will be choosing their top 2 contributors during
>>> the contest period, every org will have 2 students represented on the Grand Prize Trip.
>>>
>>> The most important part of your application is the tasks list, be sure to have at least 4 tasks in
>>> each of the 5 categories on your app. The Task list gives you an opportunity to think about how
>>> your org would break up tasks into bite size chunks for students to work on (sometimes this can be
>>> a bit tricky). This is also a great way for orgs to see how easy/difficult it will be for them to
>>> come up with tasks for the contest. Orgs should expect to have between 150-300 tasks completed by
>>> students throughout the 7 week program. The orgs that are chosen to participate will need to be
>>> prepared to have at least 75 tasks on their page when the contest opens for students on Nov 18th.
>>>
>>> If you have any questions please contact this list or you can contact me directly at
>>> sttaylor@google.com <ma...@google.com>. Thanks.
>>>
>>> We will announce the GCI 2013 Mentoring orgs on Friday, November 1st.
>>>
>>> [0] developers.google.com/open-source/gci <http://developers.google.com/open-source/gci>
>>>
>>> [1] https://code.google.com/p/google-code-in/wiki/GCIMentorInfo2013
>>> <https://code.google.com/p/google-code-in/wiki/GCIMentorInfo2013>
>>>
>>> [2] http://www.google-melange.com/gci/org/application/google/gci2013
>>> <http://www.google-melange.com/gci/org/application/google/gci2013>
>>>
>>> [3] http://www.google-melange.com/gci/document/show/gci_program/google/gci2013/org_admin_agreement
>>> <http://www.google-melange.com/gci/document/show/gci_program/google/gci2013/org_admin_agreement>
>>>
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Stephanie Taylor
>>>
>>> --
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>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
>>
Re: Fwd: [GSoC Mentors] Deadline for Google Code-in 2013 Mentoring
Org Apps is Monday, Oct 28th at 19:00 UTC
Posted by Bertrand Delacretaz <bd...@apache.org>.
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Ulrich Stärk <ul...@apache.org> wrote:
> ...I think we have never participated in GCI because the tasks don't match well with what we do and
> because mentoring juvenile high-school students is something very different than mentoring adult
> college students and probably a lot more time-consuming too....
In 2008, the ASF did participate in
https://developers.google.com/open-source/ghop/ which was the
precursor of GCI.
To get a feel for what was done, see
https://code.google.com/p/google-highly-open-participation-asf/issues/list
(look for "all issues", not just open ones)
Nothing earth-shattering, but I have good memories of coordinating
that, and our projects got some good stuff out of it AFAICS.
If someone's willing to lead our participation in GCI that would be a
good thing IMO.
-Bertrand
Re: Fwd: [GSoC Mentors] Deadline for Google Code-in 2013 Mentoring
Org Apps is Monday, Oct 28th at 19:00 UTC
Posted by Ulrich Stärk <ul...@apache.org>.
On 2013-10-24 22:34, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
> On 24/10/2013 Ulrich Stärk wrote:
>> I think we have never participated in GCI because the tasks don't match well with what we do and
>> because mentoring juvenile high-school students is something very different than mentoring adult
>> college students and probably a lot more time-consuming too.
>
> OpenOffice is the odd project in many respects at the ASF, but it might be that we are interested.
> OpenOffice alone can easily find dozens of suitable tasks, we have a lot of committers (including
> teachers, including native speakers of many languages) who don't code but can perfectly mentor
> acceptable tasks, and our mailing lists see so many things that a teen answering compulsively and
> writing in all caps won't make news.
>
> I posted a note on the OpenOffice dev list: if we manage to put a reasonable number of mentors
> together in the allowed short time, I may ask that Apache applies. I realize that other Apache
> projects have difficulties in finding tasks (on the contrary, OpenOffice cannot easily find GSOC
> projects since development actions are either too simple -like the ones needed here- or too
> complex), so I'll ask that Apache applies only if the feedback leaves me reasonably convinced that
> OpenOffice can find and mentor enough tasks alone.
>
> Regards,
> Andrea.
If you decide that you want to participate I will submit an org application for the ASF. But please
tell me no later than monday morning UTC so that I have sufficient time for this. Also, I might need
some help phrasing some texts that the application might require so somebody on
IRC/Skype/$some_other_im to help me with this will be highly appreciated.
Uli
Re: Fwd: [GSoC Mentors] Deadline for Google Code-in 2013 Mentoring
Org Apps is Monday, Oct 28th at 19:00 UTC
Posted by Andrea Pescetti <pe...@apache.org>.
On 24/10/2013 Ulrich Stärk wrote:
> I think we have never participated in GCI because the tasks don't match well with what we do and
> because mentoring juvenile high-school students is something very different than mentoring adult
> college students and probably a lot more time-consuming too.
OpenOffice is the odd project in many respects at the ASF, but it might
be that we are interested. OpenOffice alone can easily find dozens of
suitable tasks, we have a lot of committers (including teachers,
including native speakers of many languages) who don't code but can
perfectly mentor acceptable tasks, and our mailing lists see so many
things that a teen answering compulsively and writing in all caps won't
make news.
I posted a note on the OpenOffice dev list: if we manage to put a
reasonable number of mentors together in the allowed short time, I may
ask that Apache applies. I realize that other Apache projects have
difficulties in finding tasks (on the contrary, OpenOffice cannot easily
find GSOC projects since development actions are either too simple -like
the ones needed here- or too complex), so I'll ask that Apache applies
only if the feedback leaves me reasonably convinced that OpenOffice can
find and mentor enough tasks alone.
Regards,
Andrea.