[Ambassadors] Summer of Code at Fedora -- recruit; mentor a developer; improve success

[Karsten Wade]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:18:35AM +0100, nihed mbarek wrote:
> Hi,
> do you have a list of sample projects, I will be a mentor and I know where I
> can find computer science student free since 1 july.

Sounds good.  Please read the below message and the links to
information pages.  Those include the ideas lists for this year, as
well as projects from previous years.

- Karsten

> 
> 
> 2009/3/19 Karsten Wade <kwade at redhat.com>
> 
> > 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 https://translate.fedoraproject.org.  Last year
> >   Dimitris mentored another student to work on additions to
> >   Transifex.  (This year Dimitris formed a company around
> >   Transifex, http://indifex.com.)
> >
> >   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:
> >
> > http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/redhat
> >
> > To help with #2, start with this page -- use the mentor request form:
> >
> > http://groups.google.com/group/redhat-summer-mentors
> >
> > If you have ideas, put them on this page as soon as possible:
> >
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_coding_2009
> >
> > ... and join us on the Google group 'redhat-summer-mentors' to discuss
> > how you can participate.
> >
> > Thanks - Karsten
> > --
> > Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener
> > http://quaid.fedorapeople.org
> > AD0E0C41
> >
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> 
> 
> -- 
> M'BAREK Med Nihed,
> Analyst Revenue Assurance Tunisie Telecom
> http://www.nihed.com
> Fedora Ambassador, TUNISIA, Northern Africa
> PUB   1024D/9E2FFB76 Date 2009/02/14

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Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener
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