GSoC marketing update

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Mar 19 22:20:24 UTC 2009


Karsten Wade wrote:
> Fortunately, Fedora made the list of mentoring organizations for this
> year's Google Summer of Code[1].
> 
> For the next few weeks, final ideas are going to be posted, students
> will look them over, and begin proposing projects.  Mentors work with
> student proposals to improve them -- get the scope and timeline well
> considered, for example.
> 
> My marketeer gut says, "Get even more proposals and mentors in this
> year, so even if we get fewer student slots in a rescaled GSoC, they
> are the most passionate and dedicated students."
> 
> Along those lines, I asked the Ambassadors to keep on the hunt.[2]
> Oh, and to consider being mentors to get some of their development
> ideas completed.
> 
> Any other ideas of where else to go and who to ask?

Are we running banner ads for this in the frontpage?

Rahul




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