Re: Last call for SoC Ideas! (was Re: Google Summer of Code 2010 Call for Ideas)

[Sandy Armstrong <sanfordarmstrong gmail com>]

This meeting is actually on *Saturday*, not Sunday, so STOP SLACKING GO GO GO!

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Sandy Armstrong
<sanfordarmstrong gmail com> wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> On Sunday a small group of SoC mentors will sort through the list of
> ideas on the wiki, clean them up, remove those we don't want to
> recommend to students, and highlight those we find especially
> alluring.
>
> If you have ideas for your project, you have today and tomorrow to add
> them to the wiki before our meeting.  Please place new ideas in the
> "Other Ideas" section:
>
> http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2010/Ideas#Other_Ideas
>
> The student proposal period starts Monday.  If you want to help review
> student proposals, please sign up as a mentor.  If you don't use your
> full name and include details when applying to be a mentor, we may not
> know who you are, so if you choose to do that please email me, Ruben,
> or Daniel with your link_id so we don't reject you. :-)  We have to be
> careful because there are some sneaky or confused students out there
> who try to sign up as mentors.
>
> The ideas page will be under tight control after our meeting on
> Sunday, but it will still be possible to add ideas if you check with
> folks in #soc-admin or on the GNOME soc-mentors-list first.
>
> Thanks for your time,
> Sandy
>
> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Ruben Vermeersch <ruben savanne be> wrote:
>> Hiya GNOME lovers!
>>
>> It's that time of the year again: Google's Summer of Code is
>> approaching. We are in the midst of preparing it all [1] but we need
>> your help by submitting great project ideas. Student proposals will
>> start to roll in on March 29, but we'd like to make sure there are
>> plenty of projects from them to choose from and have mentors ready to
>> volunteer their time.
>>
>> So what should you do? Please visit [2] and enter your project ideas
>> under the "New Untriaged Ideas" section.  A committee will be formed up
>> later to triage the ideas prior to the opening of the proposal period.
>>
>> If you would like to volunteer your time to mentor but don't have a
>> project idea, surf over and claim one.  Mentoring is an awesome way to
>> get more involved with the community and introduce someone to it.
>>
>> If you would like to throw your hat in the ring for the triaging or
>> selection committees and other GSoC related tasks, pop on over to
>> #soc-admin, join the soc-mentors-list and let one of the
>> administrators for the program know you want to be involved in making
>> GNOME rock.
>>
>> This year's administrators are Ruben Vermeersch, Christophe Fergeau and
>> Daniel Siegel (and Sandy Armstrong, for as long as his time doesn't get
>> stolen by the upcoming kid :-))
>>
>> Cheers,
>>   The GNOME Google Summer of Code Administrators
>>
>>
>>
>> [1] http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2010
>> [2] http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2010/Ideas
>>
>> --
>> Ruben Vermeersch (rubenv)
>> http://www.savanne.be/
>>
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