Welcome potential Google Summer of Code 2012 students and mentors!
Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers post-secondary student developers ages 18 and older stipends to write code for various open source software projects. We have worked with open source, free software, and technology-related groups to identify and fund projects over a three month period. Since its inception in 2005, the program has brought together over 6000 successful student participants and over 3000 mentors from over 100 countries worldwide, all for the love of code. Through Google Summer of Code, accepted student applicants are paired with a mentor or mentors from the participating projects, thus gaining exposure to real-world software development scenarios and the opportunity for employment in areas related to their academic pursuits. In turn, the participating projects are able to more easily identify and bring in new developers. Best of all, more source code is created and released for the use and benefit of all.
This group is for posting and discussing GSoC project ideas, as well as for general conversation that relates to the SoC. You can also get help on the #drupal IRC channel on freenode (irc://irc.freenode.net/drupal).
PLEASE FEEL FREE TO SUBMIT PROJECT IDEAS OR TO RE-SUBMIT IDEAS FROM LAST YEAR!
Google Summer of Code is Back!
Hi All,
Google Summer of Code is back! It has been publicly announced, and applications from mentoring organizations (that's us - Drupal) to participate will be due the last week of Feb (just in time for everyone to be distracted by Drupalcon! … hmm.... ).
No organization admin has been chosen yet (aah time to get webchick in picture). That will be decided in coming weeks.
So let's start talking strategy about how to tackle managing SoC moving forward. We need people to help, preferably by a team of former mentors, students, and ardent summer of code fans.
Want to help? Sign yourself up!
Read moreSoC 2011 Team Sign Up
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 ... ;)
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
Project wiki page template
This is still pertinent for GSoC 2013
All approved students will be asked to keep track of the pertinent details about their project in a central wiki page on this group. The following is a template for them to use to do this.
Project information
Project page on drupal.org: http://drupal.org/project/FOO
Student: Joe Sock (socks on d.o, socks@drupal.org on g.d.o)
Mentor: John Daff (J.D.)
Co-mentor(s): Jane Guru (guru)
Local mentor(s):
Current status: Describe briefly where your project is this week. Are you in the process of scoping? Are you working on a particular deliverable?
Description
A brief summary of your project and why it's awesome, with links off to further relevant information (the original public discussion, your full application, etc.) if you'd like.
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