[Adium-devl] Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit 2006

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I'd certainly be willing to go if needed, but I'll wait to see if any  
others want the opportunity since I just got back from CA :) That's  
certainly awesome though (both the trip and the forethought.)

- brian

On Sep 25, 2006, at 9:13 AM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:

> We've been invited to participate in the Summer of Code 2007.  :)
>
> As such, we're invited to the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit  
> 2006.  Below is from the email which Leslie Hawthorn sent to the  
> relevant administrative list; please see discussion continuing  
> below it.
> ------
> Leslie Hawthorn wrote on Friday September 22:
>> We've created this list for planning activities for a GSoC 2006  
>> Mentor
>> Summit.  We'll be hosting the summit on Saturday, October 14th, 9  
>> AM to
>> 5 PM Pacific, at Google Corporate Headquarters in Mountain View, CA.
>>
>> The purpose of the summit is to bring together mentors from  
>> successful
>> organizations to discuss several topics: how to improve GSoC, how
>> Google can do more for open source, and what you as mentors and
>> representatives of your development communities can do to help one
>> another.  To this end, we'd like to invite two mentors/admins from  
>> each
>> organization represented on this list to attend the summit.
>>
>> We realize we are giving short notice for this event and our  
>> apologies
>> for that.  We just received the final sign off to hold the summit,  
>> and
>> the folks at the Open Source Program Office have pretty full  
>> calendars
>> for much of the rest of the year.  We hope that all of you will be  
>> able
>> to send delegates despite any timing issues.
>>
>> We're still putting all the finishing touches on arrangements for  
>> your
>> travel and hotel accomodations and we should have instructions for
>> booking both by early next week.  In the interim, please discuss with
>> your organizations which two representatives you would like to  
>> send for
>> the summit.  We'll ask you to let us know whom you'd like to send  
>> early
>> next week, as well.
>>
>> A few notes on logistics:
>>
>> - Google will cover the cost of hotel stay for the evening of Friday,
>> October 13th.
>>
>> - We will also cover the costs of travel for each representative,  
>> up to
>> 500 USD for travel within the United States and 1200 USD for those
>> traveling to the United States from abroad.
>>
>> - We will provide continental breakfast, lunch and afternoon
>> refreshments for attendees at the Googleplex on Saturday, October  
>> 14th.
>>
>> - We will make arrangements for transportation between Google and our
>> reserved hotel before and after the summit.
>>
>> - If you have mentors for your organization who are employed by  
>> Google
>> at our Corporate HQ in Mountain View, we welcome them to attend the
>> summit and for you to send two additional delegates who would require
>> travel to our facilities.
>>
>> - If you have mentors for your organization who are employed by  
>> Google
>> but not based in Mountain View, but whom you would like to send to  
>> the
>> summit, please contact us off-list at soc2006supp... at google.com so we
>> can work out details.
>>
>> If you have any questions, just let us know.  We look forward to
>> meeting/reconnecting with many of you on October 14th.
> ------
> Two of our mentors are invited to an all-expenses-paid trip to  
> schmooze and googlize, basically.  It sounds like a blast.  I'm  
> really disappointed I won't be able to attend.  Any takers from the  
> other mentors -- David, Augie, Brian, Peter, and Colin -- from this  
> summer?  If more than two of you are interested in going and able  
> to do so, we'll do something sufficiently pseudorandom to pick.
>
> Cheers,
> Evan
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