Summer of Code/Getting Involved
Get involved
Mentors
The preliminary Mentors' application page is now up.
Students
Student applications open on March 23rd. In the meantime, look at the list of project ideas or propose your own. Bring your proposals to the community, developers, and potential mentors for feedback on the mailing list or IRC.
Supporters
We're currently in the "get ideas" phase; please see Development Team/Project Ideas for a list of potential projects, and add your own. (There are some more project ideas from a brainstorming session at Sugar Camp that should be ported over; let Mchua know if you'd like to help with this.)
We would welcome help coordinating the overall effort as well; please contact Mchua if you'd like to get involved with this. We are currently working on the /SL application to Google.
Community-building ideas
The mentoring org application includes the following questions:
- What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your project's community before, during and after the program?
- What will you do to ensure that your accepted students stick with the project after GSoC concludes?
This is a place for brainstorming these issues.
[11:59] <mchua> homunq: we also need a general plan for how we're going to use this as a good community building tool for new developers, though that's a little vague [11:59] <mchua> homunq: stuff like "would a weekly check-in email be a good idea?" "do we require mentor meetings on IRC?" "are students mandated to blog about their work?"