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

[nihed mbarek]

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.



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
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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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