Do the numbers yourself from “The Fedora Project & JBoss.org” page, but here is my quick dump from what I’ve seen so far:
68 proposals, 45 mentors
12 accepted projects (student slots)
Approx 1 in 5 proposals rose to the top
25% of the accepted projects are about Transifex, which is a GSoC project from last year
16.7% are FUNC, […]
In the middle of the Summer of Code proposals process and it’s been a mixed yet mostly good experience. We still have room for more proposals, so keep helping interested students and encourage them to get in a proposal for Fedora or JBoss.org. We’ll know at the beginning of next week […]
One week window to choose and propose.
If you are looking to be a mentor, you need to sign in with a Google/Gmail account and request to be a mentor of “The Fedora Project & JBoss.org”:
http://code.google.com/soc/2008/mentor_home.html
Please do that immediately, thanks!
Just spotted the word that the combined projects of Fedora and JBoss.org are accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2008.
Fedora’s project ideas page is here, and JBoss.org’s is here.
This is the first year that the two organizations have worked together. This was partially at the direction of Google; with so […]
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SummerCoding/2008/Ideas
Summer in the Northern Hemisphere has been very busy the last few years since Google introduced its Summer of Code project. Folks are beginning to include the Southern Hemisphere. The Summer of Content from OLPC already plans to cover both Summers with two project rounds per year. Summer is a traditional time for […]