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

[Emilio Simpkins]

Terrance Hutchinson wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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
>         <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 <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 <http://quaid.fedorapeople.org/>
>         AD0E0C41
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>     -- 
>     M'BAREK Med Nihed,
>     Analyst Revenue Assurance Tunisie Telecom
>     http://www.nihed.com <http://www.nihed.com/>
>     Fedora Ambassador, TUNISIA, Northern Africa
>     PUB   1024D/9E2FFB76 Date 2009/02/14
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