From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <47CAE589.1070603@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:36:09 +0100 From: Till Kamppeter MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Printing-architecture] Google Summer of Code 2008 -- Call for Projects / Conference Calls List-Id: Printing architecture under linux List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: printing-architecture@lists.linux-foundation.org, "'printing-summit@lists.linux-foundation.org'" , Printing-japan , lsb-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org, lf_driver_backport@lists.linux-foundation.org, Linux Foundation Staff , webdevel@lists.linux-foundation.org, Jim Zemlin , Dan Kohn , Markus Rex Hi, the Linux Foundation is applying as a mentoring organization at the Google Summer of Code 2008: http://code.google.com/soc/2008 To get our standards, specs, and projects implemented and to find new developers, we are offering several projects for students to implement: https://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Google_Summer_of_Code Everyone of you is invited to add his own project ideas. Please give also a project description of around 20-30 lines to attract students to work on the projects (will also follow for the projects which I have posted). Note that we need all projects posted up to March 10, as March 12 is the deadline for mentoring organization applications. You are also invited to help filling the mentoring organization application form as described on http://code.google.com/soc/2008/faqs.html#0.1_org_apply To coordinate this I invite you to join our conference call - Monday 3 March 2008, Evening - US/Europe 3pm in San Francisco - US PST (Pacific Standard Time) 4pm in Colorado - US MST (Mountain Standard Time) 5pm in Chicago - US CST (Central Standard Time) 6pm in New York - US EST (Eastern Standard Time) - Tuesday 4 March 2008, Morning - Europe 12am in Berlin - CET (Central European Time) - Japan 8am in Japan - JST (Japan Standard Time) Toll Free (866) 839-8145 Int'l (865) 524-6352 ACCESS Code: 7548766 This is the monthly call of the OpenPrinting Steering Committee (OpenPrinting is main contributor of projects to the GSoC), but the GSoC will be the main subject and done in the beginning of the call. This is late in the evening for Europeans, but it is the only way to get also the Japaneses participating. We can also have a second conference call on Thursday March 6 (2pm PST, 5pm EST, 11pm CET, 7am+ JST or later) or on Friday March 7 at any time (for example 9am PST, noon EST, 6pm CET). WDYT? Till