[Koha-oz] Should Koha apply for the GSoC (Google Summer of Code)?

[Moyra McAllister]

Irma

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Moyra

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 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Irma Birchall" 
To: "Koha-oz" 
Cc: 
Sent: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:20:05 +1100
Subject: [Koha-oz] Should Koha apply for the GSoC (Google Summer of
Code)?
Hi all, 
 The email below  was posted on the Koha developers [koha-devel]
e-list but might be of interest to some of you. It gives a wider view
of the options of Koha's development.  
 As Galen explains, "If Koha were to apply, we would be expected to
provide the following: 
- a list of project ideas that would be beneficial to Koha and
educational for the students
 - mentors willing to devote a fair amount of time between June and
September guiding students through their projects
- an "organization admin" or two to help the mentors and students
 How could Koha be enhanced?  Might you have project ideas we could
pass on to the developers?  

  With best regards,
Irma Birchall
www.calyx.netau [1]

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: GALEN CHARLTON 
 Date: 13 February 2013 10:38
Subject: [Koha-devel] GSoC?
To: "koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org [3]" 

Hi,

 Following up on some discussion on #koha, I'd like to raise the
 question of whether we want to consider putting in an application for
 the Google Summer of Code [1] this year.

 What's GSoC?  Very briefly, it's effectively an internship program
 where Google will pay college and university students to work on
F/OSS
 projects.  One of the overall goals is to help educate students,
both
 in the technical matters of contributing software to a real project
 and the social matters of interacting productively with an open
source
 community.  Ideally, a GSoC student would end their experience ready
 and willing to continue to participate in F/OSS projects.

 Secondarily, we may get some cool and useful code to add to Koha.

 If Koha were to apply, we would be expected to provide the following:

 - a list of project ideas that would be beneficial to Koha and
 educational for the students
 - mentors willing to devote a fair amount of time between June and
 September guiding students through their projects
 - an "organization admin" or two to help the mentors and students

 Being a mentor is a serious commitment.  The ideal mentor would be
an
 active developer, familiar with the codebase and expert in at least
 some of it, willing to teach, willing to help make sure that student
 participates openly in the community, and able to devote a fair
amount
 of time to work with his or her student during the summer.

 I encourage folks to read the GSoC document carefully, then answer
the
 following questions:

 - Is GSoC something we want to participate in?
 - If so, are there enough folks willing and able to act as mentors?

 [1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013 [5]

 Regards,

 Galen
 --
 Galen Charlton
 Manager of Implementation
 Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts
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