[webkit-dev] Google Summer Of Code 2010

[Jeremy Moskovich]

The deadline for applying for GSoC is a little over a week away now (March
12th).

If you are interested in mentoring or would like to propose a project,
please write those up on the wiki
page<https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/Google%20Summer%20of%20Code%202010>
.

Best regards,
Jeremy

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 1:23 AM, Jeremy Moskovich <jeremy at chromium.org>wrote:

> WebKit participated in GSoC <http://code.google.com/soc/> 2 years ago, I
> was wondering whether there was interest in doing so again this year?
>
> I've started a wiki page to collect ideas and potential mentors for this
> year: https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/Google%20Summer%20of%20Code%202010
>
> The deadline for registering a mentoring organization is March 12th<http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2010/timeline>,
> so we need to decide by then where we stand.
>
> Copious apologies if I'm getting this wrong, but from what I understand -
> apart from one outstanding contributor, the WebKit community didn't have a
> very positive experience last time around.
>
> Perhaps if we try taking a more conservative approach this year. Both in
> terms of our criteria for accepting students and picking projects closer to
> the current core functionality of WebKit [rather than implementing totally
> new specs], that we might have a better experience.
>
> Best regards,
> Jeremy
>
>
>
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