Hello devs,
LibreCAD is going to apply to participate in Google Summer of Code.
It's an opportunity for students to "flip bits, not burgers" over the
summer. Students work with open-source projects as part of a summer
internship sponsored by Google. Google pays the students $5000, and
gives $500 to the organization for each student. The organization has
"mentors" which will be paired up with a student to do a project. We
are now looking for mentors and project proposals.
Our organizational application is due March 9. As part of the
application, we must prepare an "Ideas" page to advertise what
projects we have available for students to do. Google will use this to
figure out if we'll be accepted as a project. After we're allocated
students (mid March), students will have until April 6 to talk with
their mentors and apply for the program. After that, we will rank all
the applications from LibreCAD and send it to Google who will then
pick the students.
Since we're in organizational mode now, we have to do our "Ideas
List." I set up a wiki (on our new wiki!) to do that:
http://wiki.librecad.org/index.php/GSoC_2012@DEVS: Please read it over and think of potential projects you'd like
students to do. I put a template up there that you can fill out when
though thought of a project. I put three additional templates up there
for things that have been discussed in the past. For each project we
need to have a primary mentor and secondary mentor. Having a back-up
is very important to Google. You are free to back up someone while
being a primary mentor on another project.
The proposed project idea list should be done in the next two weeks or
so. After we have the list, we'll group them together into logical
units, depending on the number and scope of proposals.
Please respond to this thread with questions so we can discuss them in
the open (unless there is a specific personal question, then contact
me directly).
Regards,
Scott
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