[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Google summer of code
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:59:01 -0600
Christian,
This is an interesting idea. I can take on contact and administrative
duties, but I don't want to be a mentor. Liblouis(xml) has some very
important users, such as Bookshare in the U.S. I could ask them about
potential student projects. You and Lars might come up with others. So
mjight anyoone on this list. I don't know who would actually write out
the application.
Thanks,
John
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 01:32:18PM +0100, Christian Egli wrote:
>
> 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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