[Mageia-discuss] GSOC 2012

[Romain d'Alverny]

Hi,

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 13:24, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
> Google announced during FOSDEM that the summer of code program 2012 have
> been launched officially :
> http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2012/02/google-summer-of-code-2012-is-on.html

>From what I understand, we have about 2 weeks to be ready to apply.

> What to do :
> - complete the page started on the wiki. There is still various TODO to
> put what is still needed to be fixed.
> - add links to various sources of information, be it others
> organisations applying, or summary of do and don't, etc.

Updated small bits of it.

> - review
> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2012/org_admin_agreement
> and see if we can accept that

It looks acceptable to me. Everyone considering submitting a project
and/or mentoring one should read it, btw; it takes 5 minutes.

> - find a backup for the administration of the program. Also, if someone
> is volunteer to be the main admin, I would be relived  to not be that
> one ( even if, as the one proposing that we participate, I am the de
> facto volunteer for that position )

I can be an admin backup.

> - clean the proposal page from drafts before applying

Moving ideas/projects to
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Summer_coding_ideas_for_2012 ?

> - apply

> I guess we could use a blog post for that, but we have first to speak of
> fosdem, of the sysadmin trip to datacenter, etc.

Right. As soon as we have enough people involved in that.