2010/3/11 Danese Cooper <dcooper(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
Good afternoon Wikimedians,
The deadline for application from Open Source Projects to Google Summer
of Code 2010 is looming (in about 48 hours), and I'm coordinating the
formal Wikimedia Foundation entry. There has already been some
excellent discussion on
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2010 but *we definitely
need more mentors*.
I've added myself as a mentor as well. My strongest suits are the bot
API and JavaScript/jQuery, but I also have quite a bit of generic MW
core and extension dev experience, so I'd be happy to mentor such
projects as well.
Again, all of this assumes WMF will grant me time to spend on a mentorship.
I've asked volunteer Rob Lanphier ([[user:RobLa]],
IRC: robla) to help
me wrangle the conversation over the next 36 hours or so on
*#wikimedia-tech* to flush out folks who were thinking about mentoring
as well as additional project ideas...starting immediately. Friday
we'll finalize the application and submit.
Do we have to sign up mentors beforehand, or can we add them later as well?
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)