Summer Coding SIG

Purpose: Oversee, define, and improve on the Fedora Project's work with students contributing as part of their classwork or summer internship, and do so in a way that provides a general framework re-deployable by other open source projects seeking to do the same.

Fedora Project and JBoss.org were not accepted as mentoring organizations for the 2010 Google Summer of Code.
More information will be posted at GSoC 2010 when available.

What are we doing?

We're working on the execution of summer coding initiatives within Fedora. Effectively, what we're trying to do is take the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) model and generalize and expand it to the notion of $FUNDING_SOURCE Summer of Code by providing sample implementations of alternative values of $FUNDING_SOURCE alongside our continued participation in GSoC.

For a 7-minute video explanation, see Summer Of Code Swimchart: Now With More Generic.

Sponsoring organizations

These organizations are sponsoring student summer coding work in 2010 and are working with the Fedora Project.

For example, Fedora sub-projects and mentors can submit ideas to a pool that students consider for their summer work.

A sponsoring organization may be providing a stipend to one or more students to work on projects for Fedora or JBoss.org.

We are including internships here, which are part or full-time student jobs to work directly with a sponsoring organization team.

• Rochester Institute of Technology - LINK
• Olin College - LINK
• Red Hat - More information coming

How can you help?

Right now, join our #Communication channels and introduce yourself and what you're interested in - we're working together to define more formal roles for those who want to know their time investment beforehand. That discussion will be carried out on the list, and the more formal roles will be announced on the Fedora mailing lists and planet when they are ready.

Deliverables

• March 14 - March 18
  • Google Mentor Application and generic version
  • Google Call for Mentors and generic version
  • Google Call for Students and Proposal and generic version
  • Press release

Communication

The project mailing list is the main discussion location:

http://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/summer-coding

Meetings are every week on Wednesday at 1500 UTC in irc://irc.freenode.net/#fedora-meeting. (Webchat is available at http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=fedora-meeting.)

You can find SIG members regularly on IRC in #fedora-summer-coding (http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=fedora-summer-coding.)

Schedule

Date	Task	Owner	Notes
08 Mar ~1900 UTC	Mentoring org. applications open	Owner	Notes
12 Mar 2300 UTC	Mentoring org. appplication closed	Owner	Notes
29 Mar 1900 UTC	Student applications open	Owner	Notes
09 Apr 1900 UTC	Student applications closed	Owner	Notes