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Special topic: Fedora Summer Coding

This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Summer 2010 Coding.

Contributing Writer: Karsten Wade

Students invited to submit proposals

In an announcement on 07 April, Fedora Summer Coding 2010 is inviting students to begin submitting proposals, as explained in the section "You are a student" on the Summer Coding 2010 page.

Ideas for Fedora Summer Coding Due April 14th

Please submit your ideas for students to work on for the Fedora summer 2010 coding projects by April 14th. The Fedora Summer Coding SIG revised the date since the below blog post was written.

Karsten Wade writes,

"While we finish the Summer Coding 2010 page, it is past time for you all to let us know the problems you would like to see solved by summer coding/internship students." The idea page has all of the ideas thus far, and there is also a page on how to fill out the ideas page

"Let’s get this filled with serious ideas you are willing to mentor for or help find the mentor.

Join the discussion list and be prepared to talk about your ideas or proposals. If you were already a mentor and want to help with mentoring, such as proposal reviews, let us know and join the mentors list.

Tracking these ideas is a PITA and in fact the lack of an ideas page lead to us not getting in the Google Summer of Code this year. This is all part of a larger issue around tracking smaller ideas for beginners and students, but for now this will have to do.

Anyone want to hack on OpenHatch.org, please help. We’re hoping some of the functionality we are handling manually may be included in upcoming versions of OpenHatch. If that direction gets us fruit, we may use OpenHatch as an ongoing way to expose projects to students and other new contributors."

Sponsors sought for Fedora Summer Coding 2010 Projects

Karsten Wade writes, "[a] cornerstone of our Fedora Summer Coding is connecting sponsors (those with resources to share) with students (those with time, passion, and skills to share.) It’s not necessary as a sponsor to have ideas of how your resources should be used, that’s what the Fedora Project and JBoss.org mentors and sub-projects are prepared to do.

We’ll also sort the student ideas, generate the list of approved proposals, work with the students throughout the summer, and make sure you hear back about how things went. You can learn more about the model we are using in this blog post, Summer Of Code Swimchart: Now With More Generic."

Help organize Fedora's first solo summer coding effort

Karsten Wade writes, "[w]e are trying to turn the lights on for a new program this year, Fedora Summer Coding 2010. ... If you are at all interested, join the SIG mailing list where we are discussing how all the structure comes together. Use the step-by-step guide for organizers to get started."

The blog post continues, "This is more than making lemonade out of lemons. After we figured out that the whole idea of summer coding wasn’t kinda-sorta-good but actually pretty great when done right for your own community, it was clear we needed to do our own implementation of the summer coding model that Google first defined.

Although the plan was to test ideas during GSoC this year, we don’t get that luxury. Instead, we get the enviable position of taking a cool brand, Fedora, and create for it our own program to meld college students, mentors, summers, code, and community."