Lift Google Summer of Code?

[Justin Reardon]

Hi folks,

I'm a Computer Science student at the University of Waterloo, looking to participate in Google Summer of Code program this spring. Have you given any thought to applying as a mentoring organization this year? I've been playing around with Lift for a while now and its been a delightful change from other web development frameworks I've used. I'd love to spend a summer contributing to the project!

Thanks,
Justin Reardon

[Peter Robinett]

Hey Justin,

That sounds like a very cool idea. Do you know what the organization
has to do?

[Timothy Perrett]

It would require one of the committers to essentially act as a mentor - someone who knows Lift very well would need to mentor the candidate and dedicate a fair amount of time to the program. We looked at doing it last year if memory serves...

Cheers, Tim

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[Justin Reardon]

Yes, there were posts mentioning the possibility the last two years even, but no one appeared to follow up on them.

Google hasn't got the documentation up for 2010 yet (shortly they say), but it's supposed to be pretty much the same as last year. A some point in early March interested organizations submit an application to Google describing the organization ([1] has complete list). Among other things there needs to be someone to act as an administer, people willing to act as mentors, and an "Ideas" list of possible projects.

If the organization gets accepted there is an application period for students that should be in late March. Students apply with a project proposal (likely based on something in the "Ideas" list), why the student should get the project, qualifications, etc. After the application period the mentoring organization gets allocated (at least 1) slots depending on how many students applied, ranks the proposals, and matches students with mentors.

Regarding mentor time the faq estimates ~5 hours a week(see [2]), of course this really depends on the project/student.

[1] http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc2009/faqs#org_app
[2] http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc2009/faqs#mentor_time

[David Pollak]

I mentored Greggory Brown (Ruport now Ruby Reports) for GSoC in 2006.  It was an excellent experience for me.

I would be willing to mentor a single student doing Lift work if I could time-box it to 3 hours/week and if there was the right chemistry between me and the student.

I do not have the time to submit Lift itself as a project to GSoC.  If someone else wants to step up and do the GSoC paperwork, that'd be awesome.

Justin -- please contact me privately so we can set up a time to chat and see if we get along.

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