Carol Smith responsible for gsoc wrote on the mentor mailing list:
"Per some feedback from the mentor summit last year, I've decided to
encourage and accept more small and new mentoring organizations this
year. In tandem with more organizations, "
On 18 Feb., 22:13, Sumana Harihareswara <
suma...@panix.com> wrote:
> Etherpad developers & community:
>
> Hi! I'm wondering whether you'll be applying to participate in Google
> Summer of Code this year! I saw in a previous discussion
>
>
https://groups.google.com/group/etherpad-open-source-discuss/browse_t...
>
> that you were interested in becoming a mentoring organization for this
> summer, via either Etherpad Foundation or the Software Freedom
> Conservancy; do you think that'll happen?
>
> One possible project for a GSoC student: a MediaWiki plugin perhttps://
github.com/ether/pad/issuesearch?state=open&q=mediawiki#issue...,
> or having Etherpad instances support MediaWiki auth.
that sounds to me like a partime project because of worktime needed by
fullwork of 2 months (8h/day)
may be refactoring of auth, make it configurable, add openid and
various others auths does.
However I wish you the best to get interesting students into this
project.
cheers
Reimar
>
> Best,
> Sumana Harihareswarahttp://
brainwane.net