[TYPO3-core] Google Summer of Code

[Christian Müller]

Hey,
as I already offered I would definitely help you on that! Should we have
a dedicated GSoC (sub) page for the application? Anyway I try to collect
ideas for Flow and Neos and write some up. Let's coordinate how we can
work on it together because unfortunately I won't be at the Snowboard
tour...

Cheers,
Christian

On 01.02.13 11:24, Tobias Liebig wrote:
> Hej,
>
> TL;DR:
> Will you join and support me preparing the GSoC application and - most
> important - the "Ideas Page"?
>
>
>
> In the minutes of the last release team meeting[1], i read you talked
> about the Google Summer of Code. That fits very well, as i'm going to
> care about this years GSoC next week too.
>
> We did not know yet, if Google will announce a GSoC this year at all
> (but i think it's very likely they will do). Last year the program was
> announced on Feb 4th [2] (in 2011 it was Jan 24th). So I expect this
> years announcement in the next week. We might then have like one month
> (deadline 2012 was in the beginning of march) to hand in our
> application and prepare our ideas page.
>
> As you know: Last year our application was rejected by google. This
> is, what Carol told us in the IRC chat about the rejection:
>
> ----------------
> carols:
> this one is again one that turned on the ideas page.
> i think we were expecting a wider range of ideas to start. more overall.
> and a couple of the ideas didn't really seem fleshed-out enough.
> they sort of seemed like notes that would get filled in later
> i would like to see the languages for all the ideas, possible mentors,
> and an extensive description of the idea for each one.
> i know your org has participated in the past, but we expect high
> quality ideas pages every year
>
> I'm looking at the application, and your answers to the questions are
> strong.
> so really, please firm up the ideas page for next year and i encourage
> you to try again.
>
> what i would recommend is you have a separate "your idea here" idea
> and then the rest are very well-defined ones
> yes, please do try again next year.
> we appreciate your participation in the past, for sure
> ----------------
>
> So, we are already late this year and should definitely start to
> prepare the idea pages!
>
> A you might know, the T3A granted a budget for the GSoC this year [3]
> and i'm very happy about that. This budget includes enabling costs for
> two real-life meetings. One was meant for a "setup" meeting,
> collecting ideas, preparing the ideas page and the GSoC application.
> The second was planed for late summer, to finalize the gsoc projects,
> maybe invite some of the students, prepare something for the T3CON and
> maybe already kickstart for GSoC2014.
>
> I'd love to organize the GSoC application and organize the first
> (short; like one or two days) Meetup, so we/some people can prepare a
> top-of-the-edge-ideas page (maybe we can also find some to work on
> that during the t3board?). I offer to administrate or co-adminstrate
> this years GSoC during the summer and share my experience from the
> last years (as a mentor and as a almost-admin). And as I am the budget
> owner, of course i can take care of that.
>
> But, however, I need your help!
> My wife is pregnant and we are expecting our first child anytime soon
> (mid/end February). This means, i can/don't want to leave the home for
> more then one day and must expect to be unavailable for some time
> whenever he/she comes. Unfortunately it seems like the GSoC
> application period might conflict with this personal schedule.
>
> As most of my current customer projects will come to the end by the
> next week, I'll have some dedicated time to work on this next week and
> the week after. I appreciate any help on gathering, evaluate and
> prepare an outstanding page with ideas of projects students can work on.
>
> Please get in touch with me, if you like to help and work on the ideas
> page.
>
> looking forward
>    Tobias
>
>
> [1] http://forge.typo3.org/projects/typo3v4-core/wiki/Release_Team_Meeting_2013-01-28
> [2] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2012
> [3] http://forge.typo3.org/boards/15/topics/33
>
>
> P.S.: I CC'd some people to raise their attention. :-)
>
>
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