[dev] Google Summer of Code 2012 - call for mentors and project ideas

[Tomaž Muraus <to...@apache.org>]

Hi all,

This year I would like Libcloud to participate in the Google Summer of Code
(http://code.google.com/soc/) program. I have already asked other PMC
members and they support the idea.

Apache hasn't started collecting project ideas yet, but I would still like
to see how many people are interested in becoming a mentor and gauge
interested of potential students / contributors.

Here is a small list of ideas I had in mind:

- New API for networking
- libcloud.http aka REST interface for Libcloud
- Async API

If you are a committer and interested in becoming a GSoC mentor or a
student interested in participating, please reply in this thread. If you
are a student please also post more information about the project you would
like to work on - your own project ideas are welcome!

Committers who have already volunteered to be a mentor:

- me
- Paul Querna

More details about GSoC:

- GSoC FAQ -
http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2012/faqs
- Apache Mentoring Program -
http://community.apache.org/mentoringprogramme.html
- Apache GSoC page (hasn't been updated for 2012 yet) -
http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html

When Apache starts collecting applications I will post a new thread with
more details on how to apply, etc.

Thanks,
Tomaz