Dear all,
I am a senior student major in computer science and I am interested in the
Xapian cluster project.
Could you tell me how I can participate in it?
Thanks,
Bin
2015-02-15 0:49 GMT-05:00 Olly Betts <olly at survex.com>:
> Google's Summer of Code is happening again this year. If you're
not
> familiar with GSoC, see:
>
> http://code.google.com/soc/
>
> We decided to apply some time ago, but applications for orgs are now
> open and need to be in by this coming Friday (20th) so we need to get
> things a bit more organised.
>
> Accepted orgs are due to be announced on March 2nd, and students can
> apply between March 16th and 27th, but the keen ones have already
> started to talk to orgs (as you've probably noticed).
>
> The full timeline is here:
>
> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2015
>
> The main priorities right now are:
>
> * Refreshing the list of project ideas. I've already done a fair bit
> of cleaning up, and I'm in the process of adding some ideas we
> brainstormed at the mentor summit, but the better the breadth and
> depth of ideas we have, the more likely we are to be selected:
>
> http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/GSoCProjectIdeas
>
> Ideas do *NOT* have to be for work on Xapian itself - projects
> related to Xapian in other software are within scope (e.g.
> integrating Xapian into a framework, or adding Xapian search to an
> application). You'll need to provide mentoring related to the
> other software, but we can help out with Xapian-specific questions.
>
> Ideas don't need to be fully planned out - we expect the students to
> do some research, planning and to discuss the project as part of
> getting from the project idea to their proposal. But we do need to
> clearly say what the aims are, give some pointers to useful
> resources, and a list of required or beneficial skills. And the
> scope needs to be suitable for taking a student developer about 12
> weeks of full time work to complete (ideally including getting it
> merged).
>
> If you have a suitable idea, feel free to add it to the page, or
> raise it for discussion here or on IRC.
>
> This list is one of the key things google look at when reviewing org
> applications, so we want it to be in great shape by 20th. You can
> still add or improve ideas after then, but it's less likely to make
a
> difference to us being selected.
>
> * Identifying potential mentors. Every idea on the list should have at
> least one suitable potential mentor attached.
>
> If you're interested in acting as a mentor for one of the ideas
> there, please update the page.
>
> One of the questions I need to answer in the org applications is
> how many mentors we have, so if you are interested in mentoring, then
> speaking up before Friday would be helpful. It's OK for us to end
up
> with more mentors than we say at this point, but being able to
> realistically respond will likely help our application.
>
> * Talking to the students who've started to appear.
>
> If you are a student eligible for GSoC and interested in working on
> Xapian, please feel free to get in touch. You don't have to choose
from
> the ideas on the list - you're welcome to propose your own project
> ideas.
>
> If you want to discuss being a mentor or a student, or a project idea,
> you can do so on the mailing list or on #xapian on freenode (if you
> aren't already an IRC user, see http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/GSoC_IRC
for
> links to a web IRC client).
>
> There's also a general GSoC IRC channel - #gsoc on freenode.
>
> Cheers,
> Olly
>
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