[osol-discuss] Project Proposal :: Google's Sumer of Code

[Glynn Foster]

Hi,

In the meantime while the webpage and mailing list get created...

Ghee Teo wrote:
> +1
> The GNOME community has already kicked off their preparation meeting.
> Attached the minute for those who does not receive them to see whether
> we can learn some
> thing from their past experience also.

Indeed, that's been pretty useful and I'll probably take some bits and pieces
from that and apply them for OpenSolaris.

I guess the first challenge is to come up with an exciting list of projects and
awesome mentors to work with for the students. This is a great opportunity both
to get some code written, but also to cultivate some community growth and get
more people contributing to the project. Sun has a program called 'SEED' (Sun
Engineering Enrichment & Development) and Katy has some excellent blog posts
about her involvement in the program, http://blogs.sun.com/katysblog , and has a
pretty outstanding list of mentors attached.

How can we encourage the best of the best in OpenSolaris to help out in the hope
that it will attract some excellent students to submit applications for us?

Discuss.


Glynn