Hey everyone! Congratulations to all our students and mentors and especially to those whose applications got submitted: this is going to be an AWESOME summer.
While we're hard at work trying to figure out how to make this the best SoC yet, there's some important stuff happening, so please read through.
- It's the beginning of the community bonding period. This means that it's time for students to get familiar with Drupal, the community and their mentors.
It is extremely important that mentors establish contact with students during this period. Email, IRC, Skype, anything works. Just make sure that you have some sort of contact.
- This Summer of Code, each organization administrator will be assigned a few students/mentors. The assignments are below:
Dmitri Gaskin (dmitrig01)
- Bojan Zivanovic / Ryan Szrama
- Jim Berry / chx
- Tom Davidson / Susan Stewart
- Edward Turpin / Everett Zufelt
- Lin Clark / Laura Scott
- Leighton Whiting / Damien Tournoud
Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg (Alex UA)
- Shashwat Srivastava / Aaron Winborn
- Aditya Kristanto Goenawan / Daniel Wehner
- Thomas Seidl / Robert Douglass
- Maulik Kadmar / Sumit Kataria
- Tushar Mahajan / Thomas Narres
- Nitin Gupta / Isaac Sukin
Greg Dunlap (heyrocker)
- Tamas Demeter / Hugo Wetterberg
- Emily Brand / Matt Butcher
- Jeremy Blanchard / Kaustubh Srikanth
- David Goode / Karen Stevenson
- Sebastian Gilits / Wolfgang Ziegler
- Saubhagya Maheshwari / Klaus Purer
The organization administrator will check in with their assigned students and mentors every week or two, just to see how things are going. Mentors should have contact with their students almost-daily. If you have any questions, feel free to contact your assigned organization administrator.
- Projects on drupal.org:
Most students have CVS account and there are just a few left, whom I've already contacted. For those of you with CVS accounts, it's time to start your project on drupal.org. You can find documentation for how to do that here: http://drupal.org/handbook/cvs/projects.
Comments
Wiki pages
Will there be compulsory project wiki pages again this year (and a central list for them (see last year)), or is it up to us how we keep people updated on our work? In any case, a central list of all accepted student projects would be nice, as this information is at the moment hard to find. (As far as I can see, even on the GSoC site there is no possibility to filter by organisation. PS: Lest someone reads this now and thinks me particularly blind: yeah, now they added it.)
Yes, please...
I started a wiki to track the project wikis (how meta!) here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/72038
Feel free to jump and add wikis if you want! ;-)
Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg
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