[osol-mktg] Re: [osol-discuss] Google Summer of Code: Call for OpenSolaris Participation

[Simon Phipps]

It would definitely be acceptable to have marketing tasks as a  
proposed project under OpenSolaris, with a proposed mentor (you?)

S.


On Apr 17, 2006, at 21:14, Laura Ramsey wrote:

>
> Hi folks:
> I was just wondering--is it a crazy idea to sponsor a marketing  
> project in the summer of code? There are many ways to participate!!
>
> ?
>
> LKR
>
>
> Jim Grisanzio wrote:
>
>> hey, guys.
>>
>> Google has announced its 2006 Summer of Code:
>> http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html
>>
>> This is the second summer where Google has engaged student  
>> developers worldwide to participate on a variety of open source  
>> projects under this mentoring program. OpenSolaris has applied to  
>> be one of those mentoring communities. It's a great way for us to  
>> contribute to the greater open source community, while at the same  
>> time providing us the opportunity to meet new developers --  
>> especially students -- in new areas. See the details (especially  
>> question #2) about mentoring: http://code.google.com/soc/ 
>> mentorfaq.html
>>
>> With more than 40 communities and more than 20 projects I think we  
>> have more than enough to offer as this point. I'd like to get a  
>> thread started here for possible project ideas. We need to act  
>> quickly if we want to participate, though.
>>
>> My initial thought: I think the easiest way to participate is for  
>> the OpenSolaris project owners http://www.opensolaris.org/os/ 
>> projects to be mentors (or identify mentors) to these new student  
>> developers. Perhaps we could flush out some ideas in this thread  
>> and then the interested projects/owners can mock up their project  
>> pages with a Summer of Code section with some items the students  
>> can work on. We can then add a box to the front page directing  
>> Summer of Code students to those participating projects.
>>
>> That part is easy. The question is this, though: are there any  
>> OpenSolaris projects interested in engaging these students in  
>> Google's Summer of code? If so, let's talk about what we could  
>> offer. I'll collect the ideas and feed them into our application  
>> process.
>>
>> Please feel free to forward to any list you think appropriate.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Jim
>
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