Re: Google Summer of Code 2018

[Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.pro>]

On 09/01/18 21:58, Jacob Adams wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 1:21 PM, Molly de Blanc <deblanc@riseup.net
> <mailto:deblanc@riseup.net>> wrote:
> 
>     We just started discussing it at outreach@.
> 
>     The deadline for organization applications is January 23rd. I spoke
>     with Josh Simmons (at GSoC), who is enthusiastic about renewed
>     Debian participation as well.
> 
>     In order to proceed, we need to have mentors and projects to submit
>     with our organization application.
> 
>     In short, if we want to do this, time to start asking people to
>     mentor. :) Pinging people who submitted to being outreachy
>     mentors[1], but did not end up with an intern this round, would be
>     good places to start, I think, as well as an open call.
>      
> 
> 
>     [1]: https://wiki.debian.org/Outreachy/Round15/Projects
>     <https://wiki.debian.org/Outreachy/Round15/Projects>
> 
> 
> I'll send emails to the mentors who didn't end up with interns. There
> are some really interesting projects there!
> An open call for proposals would be good but I can't post to
> debian-devel-announce, which seems like the most logical place for such
> a message.
> Could one of the DDs on this list send out a call for proposals?
> 


I'm happy to mentor again for any of the topics I've proposed in the
past and also reach out to other mentors we've worked with in the past,
especially in RTC.

It would be good if there was an easy way to quickly resurrect past
projects on the wiki each round.

Several of our previous interns may also be potentially co-mentors.

Regards,

Daniel