SoC2008Announcement

Hi SoCer's,

You can grab the videocast of the Szeged SOC presentation over at http://www.archive.org/details/soc_showcase. It's available in streaming and full formats.

Also, our Google code project page (For code submissions) is live: http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code-2008-drupal/

Needless to say, our projects pwned.

Please read the details at the page http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-announce/web/how-to.... It has been updated recently for SOC 2008.

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! :)

Just a reminder from the official timeline: there is one week of SoC remaining. The final week (August 11 - August 18) should be used for wrap-up tasks: final code tweaks, documentation, finishing your SimpleTests, etc.

On August 18, you'll need to roll a final release of your code which Google will then ask you to upload on their servers.

Let's rock it, folks! :)

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.

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?