[Printing-architecture] Google Summer of Code 2011 - The Linux Foundation is Accepted as Mentoring Organization

[Printing-architecture] Google Summer of Code 2011 - The Linux Foundation is Accepted as Mentoring Organization

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

the Linux Foundation is accepted as mentoring organization for this 
year's Google Summer of Code. This means that we from OpenPrinting can 
again have students working with us on our projects.

Students can apply from March 28 on, so please check our project ideas 
list on

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/gsoc/2011-gsoc-printing-projects

and add any project ideas which you have for the Google Summer of Code 
and which are not listed yet. You are also welcome to improve the 
project descriptions which are already there and to volunteer as a 
mentor. Please also answer any inquiry of potential students to assure 
that we get as many applications as possible.

If you intend to mentor one or more students this year, please register 
as mentor. To do so, do the following:

1. Make sure you have a Google account and you are able to log in.

2. Log in on http://socghop.appspot.com/ with your Google account.

3. If you have no user profile for the Google Summer of Code yet, create 
one. If you have a user profile already from one of the previous GSoCs, 
reuse this profile.

4. Under "Programs" -> "GSoC 2011" in the menu on the left you should 
find an entry "Apply to become a Mentor" now. Click it. You will now 
have to select the mentoring organization. It is the Linux Foundation 
(Link ID: "linux_foundation", Short name: LF). After submitting your 
mentor application I will get a notification so that I can approve it. 
You should get a notification that I have approved you. After that you 
have to fill your mentor profile. Only having done so you get a mentor 
and can assign yourself as mentor for one or more students. To make it 
easier for me to recognize your GSoC user name, send me an e-mail when 
you apply to get a mentor.

I hope we will have a great Google Summer of Code 2011.

    Till

Re: [Printing-architecture] Google Summer of Code 2011 - The Linux Foundation is Accepted as Mentoring Organization

[John Layt]

On Friday 18 Mar 2011 22:23:23 Till Kamppeter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> the Linux Foundation is accepted as mentoring organization for this
> year's Google Summer of Code. This means that we from OpenPrinting can
> again have students working with us on our projects.

Excellent!  I've posted an entry for the CPD on the KDE GSoC wiki linking back 
to your page.  We've been the largest GSoC mentoring organisation for the last 
couple of years so we get a lot of traffic and potential students, hopefully 
this will send a few more candidates your way.  I'll also post a blog to 
PlanetKDE to give it more attention.

Cheers!

John.

Re: [Printing-architecture] Google Summer of Code 2011 - The Linux Foundation is Accepted as Mentoring Organization

[Till Kamppeter]

On 03/20/2011 07:29 PM, John Layt wrote:
> Excellent!  I've posted an entry for the CPD on the KDE GSoC wiki linking back
> to your page.  We've been the largest GSoC mentoring organisation for the last
> couple of years so we get a lot of traffic and potential students, hopefully
> this will send a few more candidates your way.  I'll also post a blog to
> PlanetKDE to give it more attention.

Thank you very much. This will hopefully direct more students to the CPD 
projects.

Probably you will also get some students who want to do something with 
KDE, apply for one of your project ideas but you decide for another 
student. Do not turn away these students, offer them the CPD projects as 
alternative.

You can also copy the CPD project ideas into your ideas list and if the 
students apply through your mentoring org, we can also mentor them 
through your org, you simply need to make us also mentors for KDE. We 
already have one project which is posted in both OpenPrinting and 
OpenICC. Very important with duplicate postings is that the applications 
at the different orgs get visible to the mentors of the other org, so 
that the best of the applications to both orgs will get taken.

    Till