Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Google Summer of Code Accepted!

Hi folks, We've been accepted again for another Google Summer of Code!  What this means: *  Mentors:  please go to this page to formally apply to be a mentor: http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/mentor/request/google/gsoc2010/wikimedia Note: you can't officially be a mentor until you do this, and we can't do it for you (part of it involves agreeing to the mentor agreement). Question for the group: how many student slots do you think we should request? On the "advice for mentors page", it says: " A good rule of thumb when finding and assigning mentors is to have two mentors per student. It is also a good idea to have a spare mentor or two who can pay attention to many students and keep track of the big picture." Given our current list of mentors (we have 9 listed, plus 1 "maybe"), that would give us "4" as the number of slots.  Does that seem like a number that's both low enough that we can be reasonably confident we'll do a good job mentoring, but high enough that we're not selling ourselves short? *  Students: it's still not yet formally time to apply, but now is a really good time to start brainstorming ideas, and getting clarifications on what's already been suggested: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2010 While you may be tempted (from a competitive perspective) not to reveal what your ideas are early, it is almost certainly going to be to your benefit to engage now.  By "engage", I mean "demonstrate that you're really thinking about how to improve MediaWiki and other Wikimedia project technologies, and have the wherewithal to do it", not merely "impress us with what skills you have".  The more specific and thoughtful your ideas, questions, and suggestions are, the more comfortable we'll all feel in selecting you. You might want to take a peek at the GSoC student agreement now, since you'll be required to agree to it as a precondition for being part of this year's program: http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2010/stude… Rob _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l