Re: Re: [pear-webmaster] Google Summer of Code Mentoring Organization

Martin Jansen wrote:

On Wed Jun 01, 2005 at 06:2531PM +0200, Sebastian Bergmann wrote:

Helgi Þormar wrote:

I'm CC'ing pear-dev about this, a better place for this discussion.

I would volunteer to mentor students that want to work on PHPUnit2 related projects. I have a couple of project ideas that I will post if PEAR decides to go forward with this.

Why not. Reading through http://code.google.com/mentfaq.html gives the impression that there are zero requirements for the form of the mentoring organziation; thus it looks like even PEAR is applicable. But then again it is most likely required that the organization is some sort of non-profit, so that Google's donations are tax-deductible. If you'd like to figure this out for us, that'd be great. :-) - Martin

I don't think the grant to the organization is a problem. If anything, PEAR can just waive it. From what I can tell, Google will offer these grants to 200 students/organizations. I would also consider mentoring one student for one or all of the following (most are packages I started but progress is slow due to time constraint): - ASN.1 package (mostly in the aim of manipulating X.509 certificates) - RegEx (to help application portability between various PHP installation when either PCRE or POSIX regex is not available) - File Alteration Monitoring (to provide OO to FAM PHP extension, and simulate it under Windows) - File, memory or database based locking mechanism. and finally: - Fix 350+ current bugs But time is going fast given the Google's schedule. If everything goes well, maybe these students will do further PEAR development later on... -Philippe