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Category Archives: Summer Coding

Pondering why KDE, GNOME, ASF et al get so many GSoC projects

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Back in the fall of 2009 I wrote a report that looked back on the Fedora Project’s five-years of involvement in Google Summer of Code (GSoC.) One glaring truth was that year-over-year we had not gotten any larger – eight students in 2005 to ten students in 2009. Similarly, our own Fedora Summer Coding had [...]

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Your project idea is missing! Fedora & Google Summer of Code

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

All year long people say to me, “This or that project will be perfect for Google Summer of Code.” Where are all those projects? Not on the Fedora ideas page. Folks, check this out – your idea doesn’t have to be complete, or even contain much more than a few sketchy use cases. Sometimes you [...]

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Fedora Students Contributing – Live or let die?

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Fedora Students Contributing is about to get ignored to death. And maybe it should be, or at least put in to suspended animation. Let me explain why I think this might be the right option, if the program doesn’t get what it needs. So what does the program need? More sponsors who provide budget and [...]

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Time to start Fedora GSoC work

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

As I explained in a previous blog post, I am not going to participate in Fedora’s Google Summer of Code presence this coming year.  If Fedora is going to participate, some of you folks need to start organizing right away. In particular, Fedora’s GSoC team needs some people to work as program administrators, or “admins”.  [...]

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Summer of Code – time to do something, anything … but not by me

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Folks: For this coming year, if Fedora chooses to participate in the Google Summer of Code (and I think we should), I have decided that I am not going to be involved. This is not complete abandonment.  In fact, this blog post is the first of potentially several that can be part of a package [...]

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It’s time to help organize the next session of Fedora Students Contributing aka Summer Coding

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

We haven’t formally picked a new name for Fedora Summer Coding, but we need to, and ‘Students Contributing’ has the advantages so far.  We’re not sticking to summer in one hemisphere and we’re already doing projects that are beyond code.  Students Contributing is descriptive of what we’re doing. This post is about the upcoming session [...]

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Midway point approaching for Fedora Summer Coding

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

The season is clipping right along for Fedora Summer Coding.  The projects are set and running, and we’re approaching the mid-term evaluation period 05 to 12 July. A quick look at the numbers: 15 students and projects. 20 primary mentors, with 15+ more general mentors (includes mentoring the mentors) Three funding sources (two from Red [...]

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Summer rolling in Fedora Summer Coding

Monday, June 7, 2010

The best part of Fedora Summer Coding 2010 has begun: students are working on their projects with mentors and related communities.  Although some of it may happen on the program discussion list, most of that work should be in those related communities.  We’ll start seeing student and mentor blog posts on the Fedora Planet, and [...]

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I’m not so hot at fundraising, how about you?

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

This summer I’ve been trying to find other sponsors for the Fedora Summer Coding program.  Timing was short from the start, but it was worth the effort. I’m not having much success, and I think that’s as much about my weakness in this area as a lack of interest or budget.  I should get out [...]

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My POSSE in Cali – Professors’ Open Source Summer Experience

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Finally!  This coming 05 to 09 July we are hosting Professors’ Open Source Summer Experience (POSSE) in Mountain View.  And I get to participate as a full instructor in this coolest of programs to come out of the Red Hat community leadership team in the last year. If you are in California this July and [...]

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