[webkit-dev] Google Summer Of Code 2010

[Jeremy Moskovich]

Tomorrow is the deadline for registering as a mentoring organization.  There
are currently only 2 mentors signed up on the wiki -
https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/Google%20Summer%20of%20Code%202010 .

Personally I don't think it makes sense to enter unless we have broad
support in the WebKit community.

If you have strong feelings on the subject or think you'd like to sign up as
a mentor, now is the time to speak up. Otherwise I'm not going to enter us
this year (which doesn't mean someone else in the community can't do so if
they feel differently).

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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