Hello everyone,
The VALS Semester of Code was announced today. Our 39 (!) project ideas from
previous years (basically the same as for GSoC 2015) have already been added to
the platform. This year, there is no fixed timeline and we can set the start
and end dates for the projects as we want. This may help getting more students
from this program, as we can better match the timelines to university schedules.
We need some mentors for this to work. Please review the list of project ideas
and tell us (Axel is the organization administrator, and I help running his)
which ones you could mentor. We can then publish these ideas on the VALS
platform for the students. If there are no mentors, the ideas stay unpublished.
Thanks,
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Adrien.
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De: "Edwin Veenendaal" <edwin@xxxxxxxxxx>
A: "Scott Wilson" <scott.wilson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Envoyé: 6 novembre 2015 10:17
Sujet: New instance of Semester of Code
Dear mentors,
Last academic year we set up an experiment to create an academic equivalent to
the Google Summer of
Code: Semester of Code. You participated in one of the two instances we ran
last year. We were very
happy with the enthusiastic participation of all the organisations and mentors
such as yourself. As
you know the number of students participating was much lower than expected and
currently we are
investigating the causes for this.
One of the reasons mentioned was that there should be a more flexible time
schedule in order to
match the different academic curricula in universities all over Europe. On the
other hand, because
mentors have limited time available, we decided that they should control the
period in which a
project idea should be carried out. So we have extended the Virtual Placement
System in the new
instance to enable projects to bear properties about the time frame when
mentors are available and
the availability of the project itself.
We would like the Semester of Code to be an ongoing event that is not dependent
on running a
particular pilot. As a first step we have set up a new instance for the
academic year 2015-2016
with the new flexible time schedule, and we hope that you will be able to
continue your
participation. We have transferred your registered projects from the old
instance to the new one to
make it easy for you. Note that all projects are unavailable by default, and so
invisible to anyone
except the owners of the project.
If you can continue your participation in VALS, please login to the new
instance
* The new instance is at http://vps1516.semesterofcode.com
* The credentials are the same as for the previous instance.
Please mark your projects as being available, and for which period. It may be
that some project
ideas are outdated and can be deleted, others may need editing, or you may want
to register new
projects.
If you decide to withdraw from participation in VALS, please send me an email
with the subject line
[unsubscribe vals]. Any feedback on your decision would be greatly
appreciated. But we do hope
that we can count on you to help us offer students from over whole Europe the
chance to do some
interesting work in Open Source Software as part of their work experience.
Kind regards,
Edwin Veenendaal
Administrator of Vals Semester of Code
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