Subject: Google Summer of Code anyone?
From: Remigiusz Modrzejewski <lrem@sphere.pl>
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 20:20:34 +0100

 Fri, 6 Mar 2009 20:20:34 +0100
Hi,

As probably most of you have heard, Google is organizing a thing 
called /Summer of Code/. This is a program where they pay students to work on 
open source projects. This means, that projects who participate, may get some 
students to work for them full time for more than two months. On the other 
hand, the students get paid 4500$ for their work (and the project gets 
another 500$ per student).

As all of us know, there are some areas where VServer could use some extra 
manhours. It's also a very interesting and widely-used project, probably 
attractive for many would-be GSoC students. Therefore I suggest trying to get 
Google Summer of Code students working on Linux-VServer.

What needs to be done is:
- form the needs into projects that can be realized by a single person in two 
months
- find volunteers to be mentors for these projects 
- apply before the deadline of March 13

Mentor is a person that should have the skills and knowledge to lead the 
student - show him where to start, what to read, ask his questions, review 
his code and so on. He should be reasonably available through most of the 
time. Being a good mentor takes about 6-10 hours per week.

What can be expected depends heavily on students individual capabilities, but 
at general a couple thousand lines of quality C code are realistic. On the 
other hand, participating at this kind of movements helps to promote the 
project (SoC receives a fair share of press attention, especially at 
universities).

A good place to start reading would be the FAQ:
http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2009/faqs.html

Kind regards,
Remigiusz 'lRem' Modrzejewski

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