GSoC: Mentoring organization application

[Bert Wesarg]

Thanks Randy,

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 12:39 AM, Randy Kramer <rhkramer at gmail.com> wrote:
> I found the application at http://code.google.com/soc/2008/org_signup.html.
>  I've copied it here with my first attempt at filling it in.
>
>  Notes:
>
>  1. We can't edit the application after starting it, so I want to try to get it
>  right the first time.  We can re-submit up to five times if we do have to
>  correct something.
>
>  2. Google will treat the person who fills out the application as the
>  adminstrator, so if someone else wants to or is willing to be the
>  adminstrator, speak up.  (I have no great desire to be the administrator, in
>  fact, I'm continuing to worry that we may be rushing into this too late for
>  this year, but, I'm not giving up yet.)  To be the administrator, you must
>  have a Google id--I presume that my gmail id will do the job.
>
>  3. The application must be complete by sometime (maybe noon, some timezone) on
>  March 12.
>
>  The questions and my attempts at answers--some of my answers are pretty lame,
>  so feel free to make or suggest changes:
>
>  <quote plus first draft answers>
>  Please note that you will be considered the administrator/main contact for
>  this organization.
>
>  Also note that all fields are required unless otherwise indicated.
>
>  You have 5 Organization Application(s) left.
>
>  About Your Organization   ^ back to top
>
>    1. What is your Organization's Name?
>
>  NEdit
>
>    2. What is your Organization's Homepage?
>
>  http://nedit.org
>
>    3. Describe your organization.
>
>  The organization is the informal association of NEdit developers (not a
>  formal / legal organization).
>
>    4. Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2008? What do
>  you hope to gain by participating?
>
>  We hope to take advantage of the GSoC to:
>    * get programming done to advance NEdit
>    * interest new developers in NEdit
>
>    5. Did your organization participate in previous GSoC years? If so, please
>  summarize your involvement and the successes and failures of your student
>  projects. (optional)
>
>  No.
>
>    6. If your organization has not previously participated in GSoC, have you
>  applied in the past? If so, for what year(s)? (optional)
>
>  No.
>
>    7. What license does your project use?
>
>  The GPL, version 2 or later, with a special exception for linking to Motif or
>  Open Motif libraries.  From http://www.nedit.org/news.php#20040806:
>
>  "
>  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
>  the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
>  Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
>  version.
>
>  In addition, as a special exception to the GNU GPL, the copyright holders give
>  permission to link the code of this program with the Motif and Open Motif
>  libraries (or with modified versions of these that use the same license), and
>  distribute linked combinations including the two. You must obey the GNU
>  General Public License in all respects for all of the code used other than
>  linking with Motif/Open Motif. If you modify this file, you may extend this
>  exception to your version of the file, but you are not obligated to do so. If
>  you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version.
>  "
>
>    8. URL for your ideas page
>
>  We don't have one yet.  I can volunteer one on wikilearn (at twiki.org), but
>  something on nedit.org would be better--I would favor a wiki, but I should
>  check and see if the FAQ comments on that in any way.
>
>    9. What is the main development mailing list for your organization?
>
>  develop at nedit.org--subscribe at http://www.nedit.org/mailman/listinfo/develop
>  or via email to develop-request at nedit.org with the following in the body:
>  subscribe [password] [digest|nodigest] [address=your at address.here]
>
>   10. Where is the main IRC channel for your organization?
>
>  AFAICT, we don't have one--I Googled [site:nedit.org irc] and found nothing
>  promising.
>
>   11. Does your organization have an application template you would like to
>  see students use? If so, please provide it now. (optional)
>
>  Optional--if anyone has a recommendation here, speak up.
>
>   12. Who will be your backup organization administrator? Please enter their
>  Google Account address. We will email them to confirm, your organization will
>  not become active until they respond. (optional)
>
>  anyone?
>
>  About Your Mentors   ^ back to top
>
>    1. What criteria did you use to select these individuals as mentors? Please
>  be as specific as possible.
>
>  Volunteers who participate on the development list and have a record of making
>  patches and commits to the code.  (I'm anticipating a little.)
>
>    2. Who will your mentors be? Please enter their Google Account address
>  separated by commas. If your organization is accepted we will email each
>  mentor to invite them to take part. (optional)
>
>  Bert Wesarg,
If they just need my email, here it is: bert.wesarg at googlemail.com

>
>  About The Program   ^ back to top
>
>    1. What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students?
>
>  As recommended by the Google FAQ (??), we will ask them for some sort of
>  report every two weeks.  If we don't hear from them, we will make two
>  followup attempts at contacting them.  If we can't reach them, but they later
>  get in touch again, we will consider the situation on a case-by-case basis.
>
>    2. What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors?
>
>  So far we have only one volunteer mentor.  In any case, if there is a backup,
>  the backup would take over.  (All email correspondence between the student
>  and mentor would include the backup mentor and be archived somewhere for at
>  least the duration of the 2008 GSoC.)  If both the mentor and the backup
>  mentor become unavailable, and no other volunteer is available, the
>  administrator or backup administrator would step in and attempt to mentor,
>  including by asking questions of the develop mailing list at large.
>
>    3. What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your
>  project's community before, during and after the program?
>
>  The first step will be to attempt to accept only students who express an
>  interest in NEdit that seems genuine.  We will require that he join both the
>  develop and discuss mail lists and introduce himself on those mail lists at
>  least at the time of his application.
>
>  We would like him to communicate with his mentor on the develop mail list,
>  although we recognize he may be reluctant to do at first.  We won't force
>  him, but we know he will be welcomed and hope he feels welcome there.
>
>    4. What will you do to ensure that your accepted students stick with the
>  project after GSoC concludes?
>
>  The big project I'd like to do for NEdit is to implement "real folding".  This
>  is probably too big a project for one GSoC project.  We would hope to find a
>  student who is interested in such a big project even if he can only undertake
>  part of the project in the 2008 GSoC, and that his interest in the overall
>  folding effort will keep him interested in NEdit.
>  <quote plus first draft answers>
>
>  Randy Kramer
>
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