Re: About GSoC 2009

Hello Johannes, Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 12:29:12 PM, you wrote: > Hi, > last weekend at FOSDEM in Brussels Leslie Hawthorn announced this year's > Google Summer of Code program. Meanwhile the FAQ including the timeline > has been published. > http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2009/faqs.html > According to that participating organizations are published on March 18. > As of then we should have a good ideas page motivating students to > contact us early, while the official student applications won't start > until March 23. The sooner we hear from them the better our selection > process can be, that didn't run perfect last year. > Currently the ideas page is still quite short. It would be nice to fill > it up while ideas might be quite rough, too. Last year we had 10 > accepted projects, by now we have 3 ideas. If you volunteer as mentor > please mind the program schedule, so you are available during that time > and especially during the evaluation time. (While last year the dates > where postponed by a week...) Last year it was a bit frustrating to get > everybody to fill out this paperwork. > http://wiki.php.net/gsoc/2009/ > Talking about paperwork: Scott agreed to do the bureaucratic work this > year and to act as primary administrator. I hope we get it running > smoother than last year where I jumped in just from time to time when I > found out the original admin didn't have enough time. > Everybody: come up with ideas and write them down > Scott: run it from here :-) As an update to this, I have filed the application. And Scott and I are listed as admins. Best regards, Marcus