Next steps on GSoC'11

[Rodrigo Rodrigues da Silva]

I am sorry that this message came out without a subject. Some of you
might have not noticed it, that's why I am resending it.

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Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 15:41:44 -0300
From: Rodrigo Rodrigues da Silva <address@hidden>
To: summer-of-code <address@hidden>

As many of you might already know, GNU has been approved as a
mentoring organization for GSoC'11.

It is now time to bond the potential students to the community and
discuss project proposals. It is always worth remembering that the
project proposals are not tied to the ideas. The ideas page is only
meant to help students get interested and build their proposals. In
the end, it is all up to the student and the mentor and/or community.

There is not a formalized process to become a mentor, so we're
delegating this process to each package. The potential mentors should
sign up here[0], and I'll authorize the application upon receiving an
e-mail from the package maintainer with the mentors' names in it. It
would be better if each package maintainer sent me only one e-mail
with all names of potential mentors.

It is worth remembering that even if one ends up not mentoring they
can participate in the evaluation process. Personally, I think it is
imporant that everyone helps evaluating the not-so-many proposals GNU
receives (around 25 expected for this year), even if they don't belong
to the package you're working on.

Here is the timeline for the next weeks:

March 18-27:
Would-be student participants discuss application ideas with mentoring
organizations.

March 28:
19:00 UTC
Student application period opens.

April 8:
19:00 UTC
Student application deadline.

I would like to run at least one IRC meeting with mentors before March
27th, with the objective to discuss some general GNU criteria and also
increase the integration between participating GNU packages.

It would be also a good idea to have a general gnu-soc IRC meeting in
order to introduce GNU and discuss it in a broad sense with potential
SoC students. I hope it will help us to increase the retention ratio,
which should be our main goal for SoC.


[0] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/apply_mentor/google/gsoc2011
-- 
Rodrigo Rodrigues da Silva
PoliGNU - Grupo de Estudos de Software Livre da Poli/USP
FSF Associate Member #7788

-- 
Rodrigo Rodrigues da Silva
PoliGNU - Grupo de Estudos de Software Livre da Poli/USP
FSF Associate Member #7788

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