Hi,
to speed up our software development for this year I have planned to participate at this years Google Sommer of Code, short GSoC.
In short GSoC means that Goolge is paying students to work on open source projects.
GSoC is a mentoring program for student open source developers funded by Google. Mentoring organisations (such as Wikimedia Foundation or openZIM) can apply with specific tasks they want to be done by some developer. If approved these tasks will be advertised by Google, so students can apply for them to take over a job. The mentoring organisations are then obliged to help the student to get the job done and to review the quality and performance. Depending on the reviews Google is paying up to 5.500 USD to the student.
http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2010/faqs
I have prepared two ideas to apply for GSoC this year: http://openzim.org/Google_Sommer_of_Code_2010
The application timeframe is very short - only from March 8th to 12th. So we need to sort this out quick and remember that I will also need some time to prepare all the papers.
The most important decisions to make are: * which ideas we want to apply with * who will do the mentoring
The mentoring is especially important. Only if the mentor is available and competent a student will be able to do his task and get the money (and we get the code / our idea implemented).
From a technical point of view I think that Tommi has to be the mentor. Maybe also Mirko can enabled to do this task, but also then Tommi must be available for technical questions.
Please answer quickly, otherwise the deadline is over and we loose this great opportunity for progress.
/Manuel
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, Manuel Schneider wrote:
The most important decisions to make are:
- which ideas we want to apply with
I prefer "MediaWiki extension to create ZIM files "
There are also some good ideas for this at
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/Recommendations/Offline
Maybe there will be more chance of success if we refer to those, as it shows that a dicussion of stakeholders came to a consensus.
Cheers, Andy!
Hi Andy,
thanks for your pointers. I will add a note to our application. I thought we would publish both ideas and see who is going to apply (if they will be approved at all). Maybe we don't even get any applications for students. That would be just as fine, as a participation at GSoC also gives us some publicity.
Tommi, Tomasz, Emmanuel:
I need a definite answer by tomorrow morning. Someone of you has to take over the mentoring role. I would prefer if we could split the responisbility, such as
We also need someone with a Google Account to sign up the GSoC website so I can add this account as "Backup Admin ID" to our application.
Please come back to me as soon as possible.
As you can see I have already started to prepare the application, so everything is ready by the deadline tomorrow evening. http://openzim.org/Google_Summer_of_Code_2010
/Manuel
Am 10.03.2010 11:53, schrieb Andy Rabagliati:
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, Manuel Schneider wrote:
The most important decisions to make are:
- which ideas we want to apply with
I prefer "MediaWiki extension to create ZIM files "
There are also some good ideas for this at
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/Recommendations/Offline
Maybe there will be more chance of success if we refer to those, as it shows that a dicussion of stakeholders came to a consensus.
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