[Adium-devl] Fwd: Invitation to Participate in Summer of Code 2006

[Evan Schoenberg]

Below I've forwarded an email I received today from Leslie Hawthorn  
of Google inviting us to participate in the Google Summer of Code as  
a mentoring organization.  I think this would be a great opportunity,  
both for Adium (to get some new folks interested in developing) and  
for students (obviously).  We'll need people willing to be individual  
mentors for students who apply -- I'm willing to be one -- as well as  
creating a page of suggested project ideas (we suggest some, and  
applicants can apply for suggested ideas as well as for their own.  
Judging from Gaim's Summer of Code, suggested ones are going to go  
better than students' own, but our  mileage might vary).

The Summer of Code 'payment' is $4500 for the student (wow! I'll be  
making quite a bit less as a full-time medical researcher this  
summer...), who is supposed to be a full-time coder for the project  
for the summer, and $500 for the project.  I propose that we split  
the project money in some equitable way between the mentor and some  
sort of bounty for other projects which we'll come up with at a  
future point -- perhaps $350 to the mentor and $150 to a bounty fund?  
Just a random thought.

Let's discuss it a bit here; I'll then do the formal response to  
Google and get the ball rolling.

-Evan

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Leslie Hawthorn <lhawthorn at google.com>
> Date: April 14, 2006 3:08:17 PM EDT
> To: evan.s at dreskin.net
> Subject: Invitation to Participate in Summer of Code 2006
> Reply-To: lhawthorn at google.com
>
> Hello Evan,
>
> Google is launching the Summer of Code program again this year and  
> we would like to invite Adium to sign up to participate.  You can  
> peruse our Mentor FAQ and Terms of Service on the Summer of Code  
> site for more information on this year's instance of the program.
>
> If you would like to participate in Summer of Code 2006, please  
> email back with your Google Account information and we will use  
> this information to create the first administrator account on the  
> SoC site for Adium and send you instructions for accessing and  
> updating the site.
>
> We look forward to working with you during this year's Summer of Code!
>
> Cheers,
> LH
> -- 
> Leslie Hawthorn
> Open Source Program Coordinator
> Google Inc.

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