Now that the textbook is out and in use, I’m turning my random spitball approach1 at Fedora Summer Coding. We had a SIG meeting yesterday, and today I worked on updating the plan. With that plan we can populate the messaging page. What’s that? It’s where people read what they need to know, depending on […]
Category Archives: Summer Coding
Fedora Summer Coding continues
18-Mar-10Fedora Project and JBoss.org were not accepted by Google as an umbrella mentoring organization for their Summer of Code this year. We’ve been involved since the beginning with many successes. This year we decided to embrace the umbrella organization that Google stitched together from separate JBoss.org and Fedora Project applications a few years ago and […]
Summer coding FAD
02-Mar-10On 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
GSoC statistics snapshot
21-Apr-08Do 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 […]
Seek ye students
29-Mar-08In 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 if the student deadline […]