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|bgcolor="#A7C1F2"|'''As a student'''
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|bgcolor="#A7C1F2" padding="2px"|'''As a student'''
|bgcolor="#A7C1F2"|'''As a mentor'''
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|bgcolor="#A7C1F2"|'''As the Sugar Labs coordinator'''
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|bgcolor="#A7C3F2" padding="2px"|'''By contributing Ideas'''
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| We strongly recommend orientating yourself with the Sugar Labs codebase.  
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| The most important job of all! Sugar Labs is looking forward to your contribution. To begin, we strongly recommend orientating yourself with the Sugar Labs codebase. Be sure to visit http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ & search for bugs triaged "sugar-love". These bugs are tasks which are simple enough for people orientate themselves with the code.
 
| You can directly benefit a new software developer's coding competency, confidence levels while contributing to Sugar Labs and developing your own first-line management skills.
 
| You can directly benefit a new software developer's coding competency, confidence levels while contributing to Sugar Labs and developing your own first-line management skills.
| Can you help orientate new Sugar Labs members, keep mentors advised & generally make Sugar Labs' GSoc 2010 a success? Read the blurb below!
 
 
| Here you can easily post/comment/vote your [http://idea.sugarlabs.org/drupal5/ideatorrent/gsoc/most_popular_ever/ ideas] and here you can look for more developed ideas ... [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code/Resources#Project_Ideas projects].
 
| Here you can easily post/comment/vote your [http://idea.sugarlabs.org/drupal5/ideatorrent/gsoc/most_popular_ever/ ideas] and here you can look for more developed ideas ... [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code/Resources#Project_Ideas projects].
 
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== Searching for a coordinator ==
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== Person to Contact ==
  
We are looking for a coordinator for SL's GSoC activities for summer 2001. Responsibilities include:
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Need help? Contact [[User:TimClicks | Tim McNamara]]. He's responsible for:
  
 
* Maintaining this wiki page for the summer 2010 GSoC season (Feb 2010 - Sep 2010)
 
* Maintaining this wiki page for the summer 2010 GSoC season (Feb 2010 - Sep 2010)
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* Interfacing with SLOBs to deal with collection and distribution of funds from Google
 
* Interfacing with SLOBs to deal with collection and distribution of funds from Google
  
No prior experience coordinating mentorship programmes (or even doing development) is needed, though a track record of involvement with Sugar Labs spanning at least 3 months is required.
 
 
If you are interested, please add your name to the list below '''before 23:59:59 UTC Feb 17, 2010.'''. The [[Oversight Board]] will contact interested parties individually to discuss the final selection of a coordinator.
 
 
* [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:TimClicks Tim McNamara]
 
* your name here
 
* your name here
 
  
 
== Some external links ==
 
== Some external links ==

Revision as of 14:58, 9 March 2010

Summer of Code Project Home   ·   Join   ·   Contacts   ·   Resources   ·   FAQ   ·   Roadmap   ·   To Do   ·   Meetings

Thank you for supporting Sugar Labs in 2010. We look forward to accepting your contributions and supporting your professional development. Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is "a global program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source projects."1

Sugar Labs Google SoC page: http://socghop.appspot.com/org/show/google/gsoc2009/sugarlabs

How to participate

As a student As a mentor By contributing Ideas
The most important job of all! Sugar Labs is looking forward to your contribution. To begin, we strongly recommend orientating yourself with the Sugar Labs codebase. Be sure to visit http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ & search for bugs triaged "sugar-love". These bugs are tasks which are simple enough for people orientate themselves with the code. You can directly benefit a new software developer's coding competency, confidence levels while contributing to Sugar Labs and developing your own first-line management skills. Here you can easily post/comment/vote your ideas and here you can look for more developed ideas ... projects.

Person to Contact

Need help? Contact Tim McNamara. He's responsible for:

  • Maintaining this wiki page for the summer 2010 GSoC season (Feb 2010 - Sep 2010)
  • Coordinating SL's application to the GSoC program as a mentorship organization
  • Recruiting mentors
  • Recruiting applicants
  • Selecting applicants
  • Supervising mentors, which largely entails making sure mid-term and end-of-summer reports are handed in on time
  • Interfacing with SLOBs to deal with collection and distribution of funds from Google


Some external links


Subpages