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

[David Smith]

	I'm willing to be a mentor OR a student :D
	
						-David

On Apr 14, 2006, at 2:04 PM, disposable at infinitenexus.com wrote:

> I'm willing to be a mentor if y'all feel I'm up to snuff :)
>
> On Apr 14, 2006, at 3:55 PM, 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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