[Announce] GSoC 2011 Announced

Fri Mar 11 15:51:47 UTC 2011

Howdy,

Sorry for the confusion, I had some emergency travel recently and have
not spread the word properly.

rafl++ has stepped up to be the org admin for The Perl Foundation this
year, I will help him with the transition.

I will be the org admin for Parrot Foundation this year.

I have already applied both TPF and PaFo to GSoC 2011.

The most important thing now is to improve our ideas pages:

https://www.socialtext.net/perl5/gsoc

and

http://trac.parrot.org/parrot/wiki/GSoc2011

If TPF would like to use a different page, please let me know soon, since org
apps cannot be modified after 11pm PST today.

In my opinion, the ideas page is the most important part of an
organization applying to GSoC.

If both Parrot's and TPF's ideas pages stay the way they are right
now, I am not sure we will be accepted this year.
An idea page should have very specific ideas, with links for more
information, lists of possible mentors, prior art,
difficulty levels, etc.

Here is an example of Etherboot's ideas page from last year:
http://etherboot.org/wiki/soc/ideas

When in doubt, emulate Etherboot. IMHO, they are the most organized
community in GSoC and have been part of GSoC
every single year it has existed.

Google will be looking at the ideas pages this weekend, so this is
time-sensitive. If you have ideas, please add them to the appropriate
page. An "idea template" is probably a good idea as well, so people
can copy and past something and fill in the details.

Duke

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 5:16 AM, Will Coleda <will at coleda.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 4:46 AM, Reini Urban <rurban at x-ray.at> wrote:
>> 2011/2/7 Jonathan Leto <jonathan at leto.net>:
>>> Howdy,
>>>
>>> Who wants to help with GSoC 2011 ?
>>
>> Hi,
>> Deadline is today. Is the TPF applying?
>> I saw nothing on p5p and tpf-gsoc, only here,
>> but I assume Duke is again applying for us.
>> Right?
>>
>> If not we'd need an emergency plan.
>
> Looks like Duke has us covered:
>
> http://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6/2011-03-07#i_3369240
>
> 20:09   dukeleto        i just submitted The Perl Foundation's app to
> participate in Google Summer of Code 2011. Anybody have project ideas?
> 20:10   moritz_ dukeleto: is it a joint application of TPF and PaFo?
> 20:10   dukeleto        moritz_: nope, Parrot Foundation and TPF are seperate
> orgs this year
>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Carol Smith <carols at google.com>
>>> Date: Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 9:54 AM
>>> Subject: [Announce] GSoC 2011 Announced
>>> To: Google Summer of Code Mentors List
>>> <google-summer-of-code-mentors-list at googlegroups.com>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi GSoC mentors and org admins,
>>> Right on the heels of the end of GCI we've announced that we're doing
>>> GSoC 2011 [1]. Yay!
>>> We have presentations [2], logos [3], and flyers [4] for you all to
>>> use for promotion this year. Please host meetups, tell your friends
>>> and colleagues about the program, go to conferences, talk to people
>>> about the program, and just generally do all the awesome word-of-mouth
>>> stuff you do every year to promote the program. We rely on you for
>>> your help, so thank you in advance for all the work you do!
>>> If you need goodies for a meetup you're holding in your area, please
>>> contact me directly and let me know. I'd be happy to send along some
>>> promotional items.
>>> The Google Summer of Code calendar has been updated with this year's
>>> dates, so please refer to that as well for important dates and
>>> deadlines. Please also let me know when you decide on a date, time,
>>> and location for a meetup so I can put it on the calendar.
>>> [1] - http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2011/01/google-summer-of-code-announced-at-lca.html
>>> [2] - http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/ProgramPresentations
>>> [3] - http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/GsocLogos
>>> [4] - http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/GsocFlyers
>>> Cheers,
>>> Carol
>>>
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