[Building Sakai] Google Summer of Code 2011

[Amyas Phillips]

Would you like to mentor a student over the summer, working on Sakai  
features you're interested in?

Google Summer of Code [0] is here again, and I've got the go-ahead  
from Ian at the Foundation to enter Sakai as a mentor organisation.

If you're on this list you can probably be a mentor.  Why do it?   
Apart from the satisfaction of helping a talented student into Sakai  
and community source generally, you get a t-shirt and, if you want, an  
expenses-paid to the GSoC conference in Mountain View.  Mentoring  
depends on you, the project and the student.  It could need 2-3 hours  
a week, so you'll want your projects to be useful.

Please propose projects on the ideas page [1] in Confluence.  Take a  
look at previous years' ideas pages to get the idea [2, 3].

The way GSoC works is Sakai proposes some ideas and mentors, Google  
accepts us as a GSoC org, then students apply to do projects from our  
ideas list, or propose their own projects.  We get to choose who we  
accept - Google will allocate us a certain number of students, but if  
we don't get the right applicants we don't have to use our full  
allocation.  Last year we had three students, you can see their  
projects on our GSoC blog [4].  I'm happy to do the admin, so as  
mentors you just have to do mentoring.  Students get a stipend from  
Google and its expected that they'll be working remotely from their  
location.

I need to get Sakai's mentor org application in to Google by March  
11th, so it would really help me if you post projects before then, but  
another deadline is March 28th when students can start applying [5].

Amyas Phillips


[0] Google Open Source blog http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2011/02/mentoring-organization-applications-now.html
[1] 2011 Ideas page https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/MGT/Google+Summer+of+Code+2011+ideas+list
[2] 2009 Ideas page https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/MGT/Google+Summer+of+Code+2009+ideas+list
[3] 2010 Ideas page https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/MGT/Google+Summer+of+Code+2010+ideas+list
[4] Sakai GSoC blog  http://sakaigsoc2010.blogspot.com/2010/08/pencils-down-soon.html
[5] GSoC timeline http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2011/timeline

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