<div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Karsten Wade <<a href="mailto:kwade@redhat.com">kwade@redhat.com</a>> Date: 2009/3/19 Subject: [Ambassadors] Summer of Code at Fedora -- recruit; mentor a developer; improve success To: <a href="mailto:fedora-ambassadors-list@redhat.com">fedora-ambassadors-list@redhat.com</a> Fellow Ambassadors: You are probably all familiar with the Google Summer of Code (GSoC). Fedora has been a participant for several years, with each year bringing more quality and quantity of student projects. As of today's announced list, the Fedora Project is again a mentoring organization for GSoC. We are honored to have this distinction. Google has scaled the program back in resources and budget in light of the global economy; there is less to go around. I am confident Fedora's record in GSoC helped us to be selected again. There are two ways I am asking for your help: 1. The timeline is short for students to propose projects. (The application period opens 23 March, application deadline is 03 April.) We need your help finding students and ... most importantly ... identifying passionate students who understand the commitment they are making. The Summer of Code is a *full time job*, a minimum of 40 hours a week for a few months of the Summer term. The project is real work on real open source. 2. Do you have ideas you want to mentor a student to work on? You do not have to be a coder to mentor a student. You need to get the student connected to the right resources. For example, I am not a programmer and I mentored Dimitris Glezos two years ago for GSoC when he developed the first version of Transifex and <a href="https://translate.fedoraproject.org" target="_blank">https://translate.fedoraproject.org</a>. Last year Dimitris mentored another student to work on additions to Transifex. (This year Dimitris formed a company around Transifex, <a href="http://indifex.com" target="_blank">http://indifex.com</a>.) Now, I was fortunate -- Dimitris was an easy student to mentor, partially because he was already involved in the Fedora community. Perhaps your student could already be a Fedora participant or contributor? To help with #1, point students at: <a href="http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/redhat" target="_blank">http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/redhat</a> To help with #2, start with this page -- use the mentor request form: <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/redhat-summer-mentors" target="_blank">http://groups.google.com/group/redhat-summer-mentors</a> If you have ideas, put them on this page as soon as possible: <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_coding_2009" target="_blank">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_coding_2009</a> ... and join us on the Google group 'redhat-summer-mentors' to discuss how you can participate. Thanks - Karsten -- Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener <a href="http://quaid.fedorapeople.org" target="_blank">http://quaid.fedorapeople.org</a> AD0E0C41 -- Fedora-ambassadors-list mailing list <a href="mailto:Fedora-ambassadors-list@redhat.com">Fedora-ambassadors-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list</a> </div>