On Fri, 2020-10-30 at 21:18 +0200, 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > [1] - https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/get-started/ > [2] - https://opensource.org/licenses >
Hi all! I am bumping this thread as we only have 18 days left to apply. I am CCing maintainers of some of our projects, that could be possibly interested in participating. Please try to get back to us soon! Cheers, Filipe Laíns
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