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Subject: Re: [docbook] DocBook and Google Summer of Code ?
On Wednesday 16 Dec 2009 15:28:56 Stefan Seefeld wrote: > 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 ? > Sounds good to me, but until now I've only been a DocBook/XML end-user - not an active developer (though I've reported and triaged a few bugs). I've also been active to some extent in the Perl GSoC. Regards, Shlomi Fish > (For details about the program, see > http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc2009/faqs) > > Thanks, > Stefan > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ My Aphorisms - http://www.shlomifish.org/humour.html Bzr is slower than Subversion in combination with Sourceforge. ( By: http://dazjorz.com/ )
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