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

[Laura Ramsey]

Yes, maybe me, and Sara has some cool ideas as well!  I think Ben, Jim, 
Tim and Glynn would also be outstanding mentors to help these folks 
start on the right foot, Marketing-wise!

Any body have any ideas for projects to propose?

LKR

Simon Phipps wrote:

> 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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