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Fri 13 Feb 2015 8:23AM

GSoC 2015

JR Jason Robinson Public Seen by 47

So, GSoC is open to organizations and the deadline is February 20 at 19:00 UTC (11am PST).

http://google-opensource.blogspot.fi/2015/02/mentoring-organization-applications-now.html

If someone who knows the diaspora* source and architecture well enough wants to mentor, please speak up and lets apply :) No point in discussing whether we "should" apply, of course we should - but someone needs to volunteer as a mentor before anything else makes sense to be discussed.

JR

Jason Robinson Sat 21 Feb 2015 9:19AM

@augier what about mentoring instead? ;)

DU

Deleted account Sat 21 Feb 2015 3:13PM

I don't think I know d* enough to be a mentor :p
And I don't think it is paid the same :D

JR

Jason Robinson Sat 21 Feb 2015 4:09PM

@augier if you just want to get paid then you can code for any project ;) You already contribute to diaspora* and as such what would be the benefit to the project in having you as our student? ;)

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Deleted account Sat 21 Feb 2015 4:36PM

It's not only being paid. It will be no different than when I usually contribute except I might take 2 or 3 weeks of holiday to work on this and I will be paid to do what I love ;)

But if it causes trouble, I won't do it, it is no problem to me ;)

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Flaburgan Sun 22 Feb 2015 10:02PM

I'll have a look at the wiki page and try to complete it.

JR

Jason Robinson Mon 23 Feb 2015 8:49PM

@flaburgan what about mentoring? Find 2-3 tasks you'd be fine with mentoring and add yourself as a possible mentor? :)

DU

Dumitru Ursu Mon 2 Mar 2015 7:56PM

I just received an email - it seems that we haven't been accepted :( We should ask this Friday why is that so (on #gsoc), and how can we improve our application for the next year.

JR

Jason Robinson Tue 3 Mar 2015 8:37PM

It's a shame but I'm kinda not too surprised. Our application was done in a rush, had only two people linked to it (= not enough mentors) and our issue list wasn't very well constructed (= made in a rush).

Next year lets do a proper job. Calendar event set for next Autumn to start calling out to mentors :)

Thanks @dumitruursu and @augier for help on this application!

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Flaburgan Fri 6 Mar 2015 1:09PM

This GSoC is special. Mozilla was not selected too!

DU

Deleted account Fri 6 Mar 2015 2:12PM

Wut ?

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