[Building Sakai] Google Summer of Code 2011

[Steve Swinsburg]

I've added a project idea to the page that I would be willing to mentor. 

Breaking from the tradition of GSoC being all about Sakai 3/OAE/3akai, I've proposed a project for Sakai 2/CLE.

cheers,
Steve


On 09/03/2011, at 11:09 PM, Amyas Phillips wrote:

> 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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