On the Friday of SCALE 8x we had a Fedora Activity Day (FAD) focused on getting ready for Google Summer of Code 2010. As usual, we had people drop by to see what was going on, since “activity day” is an unclear bit of clubspeak. (By clubspeak, I mean the language we use as insiders [...]
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Time for a five year report.
I did some research, analysis, and reporting recently about the Fedora Project and (later) JBoss.org participation in Google’s Summer of Code project. I’ve done various parts in our GSoC effort since 2006, the second year we participated, and the last two summers I’ve been focusing on strategic work for our [...]
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
As of now, the Fedora Project and JBoss.org are a co-joined mentoring organization for Google’s Summer of Code this year. Sweet.
According to the timeline, 18 to 23 March is the time for students to talk about project ideas with the mentoring organization. On 23 March, students can begin submitting proposals, which are due by 3 [...]
Friday, February 27, 2009
Hey Fedora contributors! Have you got a hot idea you are willing to mentor a student on for this coming Summer? Post it on the Summer coding project ideas for 2009 wiki page. That is our premier list for the Google Summer of Code 2009. For good advice, read this article of advice for mentoring [...]
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
A heads up to anyone interested in being a Summer coding mentor or a student, the fine folks at Google’s Open Source Program Office have updated the frequently asked questions for the 2009 Summer of Code:
http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2009/faqs.html
Read that before asking a bunch of questions on some mailing list!
You may let go of your breath now, the wiki for the Google Summer of Code 2008 Mentor Summit is now available. (It took a little bit for all the mentors to have a chance to remove any content that was not intended for public view, since the original wiki had been mentors-only with people’s [...]
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 [...]
