Special topic: Fedora Summer Coding
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Summer Coding 2010[1] program.
Contributing Writer: Karsten Wade
Deadlines for ideas and proposals approaching
The schedule for Summer Coding 2010[1] has two important upcoming deadlines.
- Mentors must have all ideas in by 13 May.
- Students must have all proposals in by 20 May.
In addition, the deadline for sponsors to pledge funding[2] is 21 May. This gives the mentors a week to decide which projects to fund based on the sponsor pool available.
Program signs new community sponsors
In an email to the Summer Coding SIG, Karsten Wade wrote[1], "Indifex (http://indifex.com) / Transifex (http://transifex.net) have signed on as community sponsors. Indifex is a company that was created to initially develop Transifex, the web-based translation management interface. We use it at http://translate.fedoraproject.org[2], as do many other projects (Moblin/MeeGo, XFCE, LXDE, and so on.) Many more projects host on transifex.net. The initial coding work for Transifex was done by Dimitris Glezos as a Fedora GSoC project in 2007[3], further code was developed under later GSoC projects for Fedora (with Dimitris mentoring one), and this year Transifex has GSoC students of their own[4]. The Indifex team are 2/3rds former GSoC students and now mentors. I'm proud they are interested in supporting Fedora Summer Coding."
In addition, JBoss.org is another community sponsor. A community sponsor is, "any other FOSS project that lends support to our program," Karsten wrote. For example, as a community sponsor JBoss.org is "growing the breadth and depth of our ideas page, providing mentoring expertise and access to upstream projects, (and) there is also an FSC 2010 banner[5] prominently displayed on the http://jboss.org front page[6]."
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/summer-coding/2010-May/000087.html
- ↑ http://translate.fedoraproject.org
- ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GSoC_report_2009#Success_example:_The_Transifex.2FIndifex_story
- ↑ http://trac.transifex.org/wiki/Development/SummerCoding
- ↑ http://jboss.org/overview/mainColumnParagraphs/0/2columnLeftParagraphs/03/2columnRightParagraphs/0/image/homepagespotlight_fedorasummerofcode.png
- ↑ http://jboss.org
FAQ updated
Over the course of the program so far, the SIG has compiled a list of frequently asked questions (FAQ)[1]. These are answers to real questions that have arisen on the mailing list and IRC channel[2], regarding both the 2010 session and the program overall.
Search for sponsors continues
The search for sponsors continues, as the funding pool directly affects how many proposals can be funded.
Karsten Wade wrote[1], "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[2].