[fab] Google's Summer of Code 2006

[Max Spevack]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Patrick W. Barnes wrote:

> Google has changed their closing date for applications from mentoring 
> organizations:
>
> http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2006/04/too-much-of-good-thing.html
>
> Still, we shouldn't wait until the last possible moment.  Are there any 
> specific objections to our participation?  Who'll give them the final 
> nod of approval?

The general consensus of this list, and if that isn't obvious, then the 
Board will step in and make the call.

So let's wrap this thread up.  Here's the "Mentoring FAQ" from Google
http://code.google.com/soc/mentorfaq.html

I don't see anything on there that offers a compelling reason why we 
shouldn't do this program.  Fedora doesn't *lose* anything, and depending 
on how well we get ourselves organized and what projects we suggest (and 
it appears that we can suggest *anything* we want), in theory we stand to 
gain a considerable amount.

I didn't see anything in their FAQ about licensing, etc.  But I assume the 
code is GPL'd or has some sort of friendly license that allows us to 
re-use it.

In my opinion, we might as well do it, but if we're going to, let's put 
the people who believe in it most behind it.  I'd like to nominate Patrick 
to be the primary Mentor contact (what Elliot did last year) and ask 
members of f-a-b who have time and are excited about the program to help 
make a list of projects, etc.

Really, this is all work that we need to do anyway.  Figuring out what a 
whole bunch of moderately-sized projects that Fedora needs work done on 
are, cataloging them somewhere, and being able to provide 
mentoring/support to folks who are working on them.

My vote: let's do it, but let's do it in a way that gets the most value 
for us.

So basically what most others said.

--Max

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