[9fans] GSOC 2008

["Eric Van Hensbergen" <ericvh@gmail.com>]

(reposting as my initial post bounced because it had too many recipients)
(Cross-posted into inferno-list, v9fs-developer, plan9-gsoc, and
plan9-gsoc-mentors)

Okay, from the deafening silence outside of students and project
nominations, it sound like we better get cracking.  At the very least
folks should start thinking up project ideas and people should decide
whether or not they will be available to mentor.  For folks unaware of
GSoC (aka Google Summer of Code), here's the link:
http://code.google.com/soc and also a link to last year's Plan 9 GSoC:
http://gsoc.cat-v.org/

I started a toplevel wiki page:
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/GSoC2008/index.html for people
to post interest and ideas -- although I think it would be a good idea
to post project ideas in the gsoc mailing list (one message per idea)
to make discussion easier -- vetted ideas can then be transfered to
the wiki.

Its probably also appropriate to start discussing guidelines for
project ideas and rules of engagement for how we are going to manage
project selection, mentor assignment, and student selections this year
as well as discuss volunteers and nominations for project
administrators.

All of this should probably happen in the plan9-gsoc mailing list
(http://groups.google.com/group/plan9-gsoc) to allow folks to opt-in
to the noise, so this will be my last cross-post.  I'm cc:'ing the
inferno list and v9fs-developer list as those projects participated in
the Plan 9 GSoC last year (and will likely do so again this year).

         -eric