On 11/14/20 1:42 AM, Jelle van der Waa wrote: > On 30/10/2020 20:18, Konstantin Gizdov wrote: >> Hi all! >> >> Last year Arch Linux applied to be a mentoring organisation in the >> Google Summer of Code program. There were quite a few cool projects and >> lots of keen people. Unfortunately, we were not selected. >> >> However, I was hoping people are excited about trying again this year as >> well. I have already been contacted by a couple of people who saw the >> GSOC page on the Dev Wiki and are showing quite some interest. I >> presume, if we advertise we will get a lot of interested people. > > My feedback from the previous attempt last year is that we took too > little time to really write a decent application and provide a clear > list of potential GsoC projects. > >> GSOC application period starts on January 29, 2021 for mentoring >> organisations and closes on February 19, 2021. We should make sure we >> satisfy the requirements [1]: >> 1. Mentor organisations must run an active open source or free software >> project. >> 2. Have produced and released software under an OSI approved license [2]. >> 3. Must not be based in a country currently embargoed by the United States. > > We do meet these requirements, but the last time I remember we had to > fill in a lot of forms for our organization application. > > This goes for projects and for the whole organization fill in form, > which is sadly not available yet and we will have 2-3 weeks to fill in. > >> I think we do fall into those categories and I would suggest this year >> we start preparing a bit earlier to improve our chances. Let's try and >> coordinate an effort. Maybe start with the people keen on mentoring and >> collation of prospective project ideas. > > Yes! Please try to get some people together, maybe do a monthly/biwkeely > mumble chat and get shared pad/thing to easily collaborate ideas. > > Greetings, > > Jelle van der Waa > Hello everyone!
I am sending this as a reminder to any prospecitve mentors willing to participate in GSOC 2021 -- if you have not yet done so, please, indicate your interest. -- Regards, Konstantin
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