From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:39:02 -0600 From: "Eric Van Hensbergen" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: [9fans] GSOC 2008 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 647e93b2-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 (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