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

[Ofri Wolfus]

Am I considered to be a student? ;-)

- Ofri

On 14/04/2006, at 23:55, Evan Schoenberg wrote:

> 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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