Re: GSoC 2009 Application

> Alright - lets brew up some ideas boys and girls - We have always been > fairly late with ideas and even people coming up with ideas after the > program starts :-P > > So please either add to the wiki some ideas or throw ideas here to the > ML and we can cook them up together. > > Note - you can come up with ideas without being the mentor of it, if > it gets accepted and finds a student. > > I am also looking for people willing to mentor this summer and have > the time / mental capacity to do so. > We will be aiming for 2 mentors per student to have less load on > mentors and allow people to go on holidays and drop of the planet for > a day or two without leaving the student hanging. > > If anyone is wondering if being a mentor is worth it - it is, I have > mentored for the past two years and it's a really gratifying > experience. > Thanks a lot Helgi for this :) Doing my job!! :D haha just wanted to say, that I have also been a mentor for the past 2 years and it is great to mentor students that are interested in developing open source for money. That's right, I just said it, developing open source stuff for money. Any student that successfully completes his project gets about 4-5K (Dollars) for the summer of work, and all of that is given to the open source community. This is considered a fulltime job so if you would like to apply please bare in mind that this is serious. It's a job :) There is a midterm evaluation, there are goals that have to be met but it's also a good craic with the other people from the community and your mentor will usually introduce you to many other open source developers either from PEAR, PECL, or PHP directly depending on which modules you'll be working on. Anyways, we are looking at new ideas as Scott and Helgi pointed out and if you are too shy to come out in public you can direct the requests to either myself or Helgi. We'll be glad to either add them to the wiki or discuss the implications of the ideas themselves. Once again we have a chance to get some important sections of PEAR worked on and I believe this year is going to be a great one for PEAR (With the quickly approaching PEAR2 & Pyrus, and with another GSoC to help us improve our already sterling product). I really am looking forward in seeing ideas coming from the great Rosaceae [1] and I believe that we can show the world just yet once again how good we are at PEAR :) Keep em comin'! [1]: Rosaceae: The large family of PEAR -- Slan, David