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

[Colin Barrett]

Baaaaah, reply all

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Colin Barrett <timber at lava.net>
> Date: September 25, 2006 12:51:13 PM HST
> To: Evan Schoenberg <evan.s at dreskin.net>
> Subject: Re: [Adium-devl] Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit 2006
>
> Sure, throw my name into the hat as well. Why not.
>
> -Colin
>
> On Sep 25, 2006, at 4:13 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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