SoC2008Announcement

Mid-term time means time to fill out your mid-term surveys. Full details available here: http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-announce/web/midter...

Mentors: http://code.google.com/soc/2008/mentor_home.html
Students: http://code.google.com/soc/2008/student_home.html
Click the big red link.

Mentors with students assigned and SoC students MUST fill these out, or else students will not be paid. :( Mentors who are not formally assigned a student may also submit surveys if they'd like to provide their own insights and experiences.

Please get these in by Friday, July 11. Thanks a lot, folks.

On Tuesday, July 8 (the day after mid-terms), I want to put a big post on the front-page of Drupal.org that highlights you all and what you're working on. :)

So, please help by filling in the table below with:

1. Links to your d.o user profile, g.d.o picture, and project page
2. A couple sentences about yourself
3. Links for the community to download (required) and demo (optional, but recommended!) your projects.

I filled in the first three students to show an example (feel free to change bios folks; I made some stuff up from the introductions thread).

Thanks!

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:

1. Both students and mentors will be required to fill out a small survey from Google. Monitor the mailing list for details.
2. 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:

I just submitted a session for Drupalcon Szeged 2008 that's a showcase of all the completed Summer of Code projects. This allows any Summer of Code students in attendance to stand up and demo their hard work, to much ooohing and aaahing from the collective audience. :) If you've never been to a Drupalcon, it's an awesome time, and a chance to meet many of your mentors, hang out and hack/share ideas, and very possibly end up with a job. ;)

If you're planning to come (and you totally should), you should register before June 30th to get the cheapest registration price. More details at http://szeged2008.drupalcon.org/.

So, who's coming? :D

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:

1. What did you get done this week?
2. What are you planning to do over the next week?
3. Is there anything you're blocked on?

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"

Hey, folks! :) The Summer of Code start date is approaching rapidly: let's have a round of introductions from each of the students to talk a little about themselves! Who are you? What's your project, and why is it awesome? Where are you from? What's your major and what school do you go to? How'd you come to choose Drupal as your mentoring organization? What do you like to do for fun? And anything else you care to share. :)

Also, if everyone could make sure they have a picture uploaded for themselves, that'd really help put some faces to names. :)

Welcome, accepted Summer of Code students! This post contains important information about prerequisites for starting your project. Please read it carefully.

Google has awarded Drupal 21 slots for Google Summer of Code. This year there were many strong applications, and narrowing the field to the top 21 was not an easy task. Thanks to all the mentors who helped out with the evaluating, and congratulations to all of the students. We look forward to working with you this summer! :)

Although coding doesn't formally kick off until May 26, according to Google's program timeline, there are a few things that need to get sorted out first. If you have questions about how to do any of these things, don't be shy! :) Post to the http://groups.drupal.org/soc-2008 or ask in #drupal on irc.freenode.net, and we'll get you hooked up.