Re: [GSoC Mentors Announce] Google Summer of Code 2013

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Kalle Sommer Nielsen <kalle@php.net> wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> >> https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en-US&fromgroups=#!topic/gsoc-mentors-announce/LhxkhFQ2zvY > > Are we gonna sign up PHP for GSoC this year? If so then might be the > time to discuss / prep =] I'm still pending resubscription to the group, so I can't yet see any of the messages. Hopefully the subscription will be approved soon --- I just resubmitted the request now. In any case, yes. Next week I'm going to go over and try to compile a list of projects from the last few years that haven't yet been completed, and for which there is (a) still a need, and (b) someone willing (and qualified) to serve as mentor. The mirror management system is one which I think is a more viable and necessary project now than ever before, thanks to numerous changes and a clarifying path for development and feature additions (thanks largely in immediate history to Ferenc Kovacs keeping up on things while I was battling the flu or pneumonia or the plague or whatever it was). Sometime next week or the week after (hopefully right around one month before the 18 March application opening date) I'll send out the announcement to Internals to gather some ideas and gauge interest. Last year, Adam and I found that no one was really enthusiastic about serving as a mentor, so it stagnated before we ever got off the ground. This year, particularly with new blood and folks really finding their groove within the project as a whole, I think we'll have some more interest. -- </Daniel P. Brown> Network Infrastructure Manager http://www.php.net/