[liblouis-liblouisxml] Google summer of code
- From: Christian Egli <christian.egli@xxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml <liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:32:18 +0100
For the last couple of years Google has been sponsoring students to work
for a summer on a particular open source project
(http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/program/home/google/gsoc2010). We as a
project could apply as a mentoring organization and try to attract some
developers to improve any aspect of liblouis or liblouisxml. For that we
would have to provide the following:
1) A set of ideas for students to choose from, publicly published by the
mentoring organization as an "Ideas" list.
2) An organization administrator to act as the project's main point of
contact for Google
3) A person or group responsible for review and ranking of student
applications, both those proposals which tie into the org's "Ideas"
list and "blue-sky" proposals
4) A person or group of people responsible for monitoring the progress
of each accepted student and to mentor her/him as the project
progresses
5) A person or group responsible for taking over for a student's
assigned mentor in the event they are unable to continue mentoring,
e.g. take a vacation, have a family emergency
6) A written evaluation of each student participant, including how s/he
worked with the group, whether s/he should be invited back should we
do another Google Summer of Code, etc.
We could probably provide mentors for, say, one or maybe two students.
This would be very beneficial for liblouis. On the other hand it appears
that the likelihood of us getting accepted as a mentoring organization
are quite small as we probably are, what they call, "highly niche or
have very few users", so "chances are that your application will not be
accepted."
So my question is:
1) Should we go through the (potentially laborious) process and draft a
well written application?
2) What would potential projects for a student be (e.g. Java bindings)?
3) Would it maybe be better to team up with some other accessibility
organisations (www.a11y.org, Orca, NVDA, others?) to have better
chances of getting accepted as a mentoring organisation?
Thanks
Christian
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Christian Egli
Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled
Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland
For a description of the software and to download it go to
http://www.jjb-software.com
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