[Coin-discuss] Google Summer of Code 2009?

[Matthew Saltzman]

Sebastian (or anyone other willing volunteers)--

If someone would like to take the lead on this, we'd be glad to support
you as much as we can.  I'd recommend taking the link to last year's
application as a starting point
(https://projects.coin-or.org/Events/wiki/GoogleSummerOfCode2008)
and, bearing in mind Brady's comments, re-work it for this year.  Some
project ideas and mentors from last year may be re-usable, and others on
this list or the project-managers list (copied on this message) may have
ideas for projects and be willing to mentor.

We really appreciate your interest!

On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 21:43 -0500, Brady Hunsaker wrote:
> After last year's application, I asked internally at Google (where I 
> work) about feedback.  There were two main points:
> 
> - The most common reason for rejecting organization applications is a 
> poor ideas list.  The person who replied to me said that the COIN-OR 
> list looked reasonable, but added that there weren't any comments about 
> required skills or difficulty levels.  That's something they look for, 
> so that should certainly be included in any new application.
> 
> - In the final cut of organizations they had to make some really tough 
> choices among very good organizations.  I don't know where COIN-OR 
> fell--whether it was cut earlier or whether it was in the final cut. 
> It's possible that the quality of the application was fine and COIN-OR 
> just got a tough break.
> 
> Brady
> 
> Robin Lougee-Heimer wrote:
> > Last year, I rallied a group who put together the application for COIN-OR 
> > to be a mentoring organization for the Google SoC.  Here's what we put 
> > together last year, in case someone else wants to step up and lead a try 
> > for 2010. 
> > 
> >         https://projects.coin-or.org/Events/wiki/GoogleSummerOfCode2008
> > 
> > Thanks for raising the opportunity again, Sebastian!
> > 
> > Robin
> > 
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Robin Lougee-Heimer, PhD
> > Program Manager, COIN-OR
> > IBM TJ Watson Research Center
> > 1101 Kitchawan Road, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
> > ph: 914-945-3032   fax: 914-945-3434 
> > robinlh at us.ibm.com
> > http://www.coin-or.org
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Sebastian Nowozin <nowozin at gmail.com> 
> > Sent by: coin-discuss-bounces at list.coin-or.org
> > 02/27/2009 02:53 AM
> > 
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> > 
> > Hello everybody,
> > 
> > Google announced the summer of code 2009 recently, see
> > http://code.google.com/soc/
> > 
> > Does COIN-OR plan to apply as mentoring organization this year?  On the
> > downside, only 1000 students will be funded this year, but on the upside
> > the work on the COIN-OR 2008 application has already been done and it is
> > still reasonably up-to-date, isn't it?
> > 
> > Mentoring organization application FAQ:
> > http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2009/faqs.html#0_1_org_apply_4694175091022641
> > 
> > 
> > The application deadline is March 9th, 2009.
> > 
> > Sebastian
> > 
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                Matthew Saltzman

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