Welcome Summer of Code 2008 mentors! This group is for mentors for the 2008 Summer of Code to handle any internal discussion throughout the life of the program. Because this is a closed group and content is private, it's usually best to post things to http://groups.drupal.org/soc-2008 instead.
Mentor tasks and due dates:
- April 7 - April 17: read/review/discuss/rank applications.
- April 20 - May 26: help new students get acclimated to community, get them setup with CVS access, etc.
- May 26 - August 18 SoC mentoring; help students on their projects.
- July 14: Mentor mid-term reports.
- August 11: Help students to put finishing touches on their projects.
- September 1: Mentor final reports due.
Program timeline for mentors:
- April 7 - April 17: Student application period.
- April 20: Accepted students announced.
- May 26: SoC starts!
- July 7: SoC mid-term
- August 11: Suggested pencils-down date.
- August 18: SoC ends. :(
Any Proposals from 2008 worth doing in 2009?
There are a number of proposals from last year that either didn't make the cut or, in a couple of rare cases, didn't result in a successful project. Are there proposals from the GSoC 2008 group that worth bringing over the GSoC 2009 group? I'm going to put some work in organizing the group, and I was thinking it might be a good way to populate the idea section with some content.
Here's the list from last year: http://drupal.org/google-summer-of-code/2008/ideas-list
Read moreSoC Team Sign-Up Wiki Page-O-Rama
Last updated by rwohleb@drupal.org on Tue, 2009-03-24 00:05
Here's a description of the various roles that need filling during SoC, what needs to be done, and a place for people to sign themselves up for it. Please feel free to sign yourself up for multiple roles, but please don't try and do all of them or you'll end up as insane as webchick. ;)
Let's rock this!
People we need ASAP
* Organization Administrators
* Mentor Recruiters
* Official Project Idea List Curators
* Project Idea Thinker Uppers
People we need before we submit a mentoring application (~Late Feb - Early March)
* Mentoring Application Writers
* Mentors
* Backup Mentors
People we need before student applications start coming in (~Late March - Mid-April)
* Welcome Wagon
* Student Application Vetters
* Student Application Rankers
People we need before community bonding period (~Mid-April - Late May)
* Community Bonding Time Team
* Planet SoC
People we need during Summer of Code starts (~Late May - Early September)
* Whip Crackers
People we need before SoC ends (Early September and beyond)
* Post-SoC Team
SoC 2009: We need a team (or, webchick's braindump about SoC)
While Google hasn't officially announced anything to my knowledge, word on the street is that the Summer of Code program will be running again in 2009. If it runs as it did in 2008, then it would be publicly announced next month, and applications from mentoring organizations (that's us - Drupal) to participate will be due the first week of March (just in time for everyone to be distracted by Drupalcon! ;)).
Traditionally, I've sort of headed up the administrative, getting-the-ball-rolling process at the beginning of SoC, and making-sure-things-are-chugging-along during the middle, with the help of Drupal's tremendous mentoring team. There is one BIG snag this year though -- last fall I got named Drupal 7 core maintainer, and have had to cut all other "extra-curricular" duties, and that includes SoC. :\ We therefore urgently need to look at a sustainable way to spread this responsibility across the mentoring team so it doesn't create a "single point of failure" in our organization.
So let's pre-preemptively start talking strategy about how to tackle managing SoC moving forward. Here's a brain-dump of everything related to managing SoC that will need to be looked after, preferably by a team of former mentors, students, and ardent summer of code fans.
Want to help? Sign yourself up!
Read moreHey, students and mentors: need your final evaluations!
For those who missed the announcement on the SoC mailing list, Final Evaluation Period is now upon us. There are two required surveys: one for your assigned SoC project, and one for the program as a whole.
Please turn these in no later than Sunday, August 24!
Students: In addition to your program surveys, you must also Upload a copy of your code to Google. We hope you will continue to work on your projects even after SoC. :)
Mentors: Only the primary mentor listed @ http://code.google.com/soc/2008/drupal/open.html will be able to fill out a student evaluation. But feel free to collaborate with it with your co-mentors!
Thanks so much for a rockin' SoC, folks! :)
Read moreSoC mid-terms and your first alpha release
Those of you paying attention to the SoC timeline will note that mid-terms are July 7, 2008. At that time, two things will happen:
- Both students and mentors will be required to fill out a small survey from Google. Monitor the mailing list for details.
- Students will be required to release an initial alpha version of their projects that the community can play around with and test. Extra bonus points for having a public demo site that people can click and try!
"But webchick!," I hear you cry, "It's only half way through SoC! My project isn't done yet! How can I possibly release an alpha version?!" It's quite easy, actually:
Read moreStatus reports!
Greetings, SoC Students!
One of the requirements for completing Summer of Code (aka, getting paid! ;)) is to post weekly status reports about your project each Tuesday. These reports should go in your projects' wiki pages (following the template) in a section marked "Status updates." Ah, yes. You didn't think this whole summer was going to be nothing but fun, sun, and code, did you now? ;) Just kidding. :)
Now, as we all know, writing status reports takes away from valuable coding time. That's why all we're looking for is 3 sentences from you each week:
- What did you get done this week?
- What are you planning to do over the next week?
- Is there anything you're blocked on?
SoC 2008 Kickoff Party
NOTE: TIME CHANGE!!
Please use this: http://www.worldtimeserver.com/convert_time_in_UTC.aspx?y=2008&mo=5&d=26... to figure out when it is. :P (hint: 0.5 hours from now or less)
Sunday, May 25, the day before Summer of Code officially kicks off, we'd like to host a webcast for all Summer of Code students who can make it to introduce themselves, ask any general community questions that you'd like to know before digging in, and generally get to know each other a bit.
Anyone is welcome to join in and listen or help answer questions, but please note that the this session is specifically geared toward getting our Google SoCers up to speed. Students, if you have topics you want covered please reply to this post so we can try and grab someone to be in the room specifically to answer them. And everyone else, feel free to stop by, hear what this gang will be up to, and lend your expertise!
Note: Students, please check out http://groups.drupal.org/node/6063 for instructions on connecting with TeamSpeak. Since you will be talking on the audiocast you get to be "teachers." :) Join #drupal-dojo on irc.freenode.net before the lesson, as we'll be using that to field questions from the "audience"
Read moreCo-Mentors Please Stand Up!
I posted this in the discussion in the Accepted Application wiki, but I figured it might be best as its own discussion. We currently only have 8 slots out of 23 which list co-mentors. If you are a mentor that has an unlisted co-mentor, or a co-mentor that isn't listed, can you please add yourself to the list? If you're a mentor who needs a co-mentor or you aren't a listed mentor and you'd like to co-mentor an application that looks like it will get in, could you speak up either here or on the Accepted Application post?
Read moreCall to action: Drupalize the GSoC mentor app
If you have some spare cycles this weekend, come help out with this:
http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/development/2008-March/029362.html
Would be a tremendous opportunity for Drupal if we can assemble a small team on this in a hurry.
Btw, please make this a secondary priority over reviewing student applications. Those are due Monday too. :)
Update - If you are willing to help, email dmitrig01@gmail.com -- dmitrig01
Read moreImportant task this weekend: Finalize the SoC Ideas List
This weekend everyone has one very important task: Moving community-proposed ideas from http://groups.drupal.org/soc-2008 to http://drupal.org/google-summer-of-code/2008/ideas-list, which will lock down on Monday morning, when student applications open up. The ideas list is both SoC students' entry point to the Drupal community, and also where most of our SoC applicants will focus their applications. We want to make sure we have a good selection of fun, challenging, and important projects for them to choose from.
Read moreSoC application template
The Perl project has a very nice application template which dmitri pointed out to me, and I've updated our application template based on it. So it is now:
Read moreSummer of Code 2008 Mentoring Organization Application
UPDATE 2008-03-11 03:20AM EDT: I re-worked this based on existing text as well as some from last year's application and sent it off. Thanks so much for everyone's hard work!
Hey, folks. Here's the template for the mentoring organization application. We need to fill this out (as well as flesh out our final ideas list) by March 12 at noon PDT/19:00 UTC. This is a wiki page. Go nuts.
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