<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Sebastian:</font>
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Thanks for keeping the visibility of the opportunity high. I've
added it to the agenda of the COIN-OR Foundation's Board meeting today.
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Woud you be interested in taking an
active role in making this happen? Feel free to write me offline
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Robin</font>
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Robin Lougee-Heimer, PhD<br>
Program Manager, COIN-OR<br>
IBM TJ Watson Research Center<br>
1101 Kitchawan Road, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598<br>
ph: 914-945-3032 fax: 914-945-3434 <br>
robinlh@us.ibm.com<br>
http://www.coin-or.org<br>
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<br><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Sent by: coin-discuss-bounces@list.coin-or.org</font>
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<br><tt><font size=2>Hello everybody,<br>
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just now the Google SoC 2008 was officially opened, with the official<br>
website being hosted at<br>
http://code.google.com/soc/2008/<br>
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As there was some positive feedback to my last email to this list,<br>
this is now the chance and time of a COIN senior member to step up and<br>
organize the application as mentoring organization. Also if this
is<br>
happening, it would be great to have suggestions by COIN developers<br>
for possible SoC student projects they would mentor (read the official<br>
page for payment information for students and mentors). Other<br>
open-source projects like ffmpeg, Mono and Gnome do this by using a<br>
wiki page where project suggestions can be entered ("ideas page").<br>
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About the mentoring organization aplication, from the FAQ at<br>
http://code.google.com/soc/2008/faqs.html#0.1_applying<br>
I copy a description of how the mentoring organization application<br>
should look like:<br>
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"In addition to anything else your organization would like to submit<br>
as an application, Google will be asking (at least) the following<br>
questions as part of the application process:<br>
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1. Describe your organization.<br>
2. Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2008?<br>
What do you hope to gain by participating?<br>
3. Did your organization participate in past GSoCs? If so, please<br>
summarize your involvement and the successes and challenges of your<br>
participation.<br>
4. If your organization has not previously participated in GSoC,<br>
have you applied in the past? If so, for what year(s)?<br>
5. Who will your organization administrator be? Please include<br>
Google Account information.<br>
6. What license(s) does your project use?<br>
7. What is the URL for your ideas page?<br>
8. What is the main development mailing list or forum for your
organization?<br>
9. What is the main IRC channel for your organization?<br>
10. Does your organization have an application template you would<br>
like to see students use? If so, please provide it now.<br>
11. Who will be your backup organization administrator? Please<br>
include Google Account information.<br>
12. Who will your mentors be? Please include Google Account information.<br>
13. What criteria did you use to select these individuals as<br>
mentors? Please be as specific as possible.<br>
14. What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students?<br>
15. What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors?<br>
16. What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with<br>
your project's community before, during and after the program?<br>
17. What will you do to ensure that your accepted students stick<br>
with the project after GSoC concludes?"<br>
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I hope COIN take part in this, thanks for considering,<br>
Sebastian<br>
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