DocBook and Google Summer of Code ?

[Stefan Seefeld <seefeld@sympatico.ca>]

All,

Google is sponsoring each year many organizations to allow students to 
contribute to free software projects over the summer. This is known as 
the "Google Summer of Code".
Such organizations would apply to become a "mentoring organization", 
sometime in early March. Being a mentoring organization means to provide 
project ideas, as well as mentors who would help the student(s) over the 
summer keep in touch with the community, as well as make progress on the 
project.

I have been a mentor for different projects and mentoring organizations 
in the past (notably, the Python Software Foundation and Boost.org), and 
I know firsthand what a great way to help advance a project this is, as 
well as allow students to get involved with Free Software.

I have been wondering whether there was any interest in the DocBook 
community to apply to become a GSoC mentoring organization, too. I can 
see many projects that are doable in such a context (I have a couple of 
specific ideas that I would very much like to see realized, and I think 
GSoC would be an ideal framework for this).

Before diving into such details, I'd just like to ask for feedback about 
the general idea. What do you think ?

(For details about the program, see 
http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc2009/faqs)

Thanks,
         Stefan

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