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| == Special topic: Fedora Summer Coding == | | == Special topic: Fedora Summer Coding == |
| This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Summer 2010 Coding<ref> | | This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Summer Coding 2010<ref> |
| https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010</ref>. | | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010</ref> program. |
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| Contributing Writer: [[User:Quaid|Karsten Wade]] | | Contributing Writer: [[User:Quaid|Karsten Wade]] |
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| === Students plan proposals while new ideas keep coming === | | === Program quiet while mentors work === |
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| As per the program schedule<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010_schedule</ref>, students are working on research and communication with the community. The result of this work is the student proposal, due by 20 May 2010.
| | This week the mentors for Fedora Summer Coding 2010<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010</ref> are working via private discussion list. The mentors have these responsibilities: |
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| Meanwhile, sub-projects in the Fedora Project and the JBoss.org<ref>http://jboss.org</ref> communities continue to add to the project ideas page<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Summer_Coding_2010_ideas</ref>. There are currently 20 project ideas, such as Copr<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Summer_Coding_2010_ideas#Copr</ref>:
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| | * Participate in ordering accepted proposals so the program can offer funding to the top selections. |
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| "Copr (Cool Other Package Repo) is a Fedora project to help make building and managing third party package repositories easy. Copr is being implemented this summer by Seth Vidal and Toshio Kuratomi. They would welcome help from interested students."
| | With over 40 proposals submitted<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Summer_Coding_2010_proposals</ref>, competition is very strong with a range of proposals but only a few being accepted, and even fewer funded. Mentors are scheduled to announce the accepted and funded proposals by the end of the week. |
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| Other examples are improvements and new features for the Seam Framework<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Summer_Coding_2010_ideas#Seam_Framework</ref>, several KDE projects (netbook spin<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Summer_Coding_2010_ideas#KDE_Netbook_Spin</ref>, fingerprint support<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Summer_Coding_2010_ideas#KDE_fingerprint_support_for_various_components</ref>, and usability recording tool<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Summer_Coding_2010_ideas#KDE_Usability_recording_tool</ref>), and a proposal to integrate Beacon<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Summer_Coding_2010_ideas#Beacon</ref> with the Fedora Docs CMS for WYSIWYG editing of DocBook XML sources. The work to add DocBook XML editing support to Beacon was a project from the 2009 Google Summer of Code<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocBook_Editor_Feature</ref>, and the student from that project is back as a mentor for this new project.
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| === Search for sponsors continues ===
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| The search for sponsors continues, as the funding pool directly affects how many proposals can be funded.
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| [[User:Quaid|Karsten Wade]] wrote<ref>http://iquaid.org/2010/04/13/sponsoring-summer-coding-get-and-give-value/</ref>, "If you work for or with an organization, business, foundation, non-profit, etc. that benefits from a better Fedora Project … consider if you have some budget to help fund a student proposal<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010#You_are_a_sponsoring_organization</ref>.
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Special topic: Fedora Summer Coding
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Summer Coding 2010[1] program.
Contributing Writer: Karsten Wade
Program quiet while mentors work
This week the mentors for Fedora Summer Coding 2010[1] are working via private discussion list. The mentors have these responsibilities:
- Advocate for their own proposal(s)
- Help reach consensus about all proposals
- Participate in ordering accepted proposals so the program can offer funding to the top selections.
With over 40 proposals submitted[2], competition is very strong with a range of proposals but only a few being accepted, and even fewer funded. Mentors are scheduled to announce the accepted and funded proposals by the end of the week.
