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

[Terrance Hutchinson]

Karsten,

I will gladly be a mentor as well. I participated in the Google Summer of
Code last year. Since I am no longer in school, I would still love to help
out.


Terrance

2009/3/19 nihed mbarek <nihedmm at gmail.com>

> 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
>> AD0E0C41
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