[Evergreen-governance-l] Google Summer of Code Fund

[Lori Bowen Ayre]

I'm a bit confused but maybe you can all work it out when you get on the
phone.  I didn't think it was "like" the Google Summer of Code, I thought it
WAS the Google Summer of Code.  But maybe I misunderstood Anoop...who has
been my source of this info.

Anyway, I'm glad you'll be discussing it today.

Lori

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Dan Scott <dan at coffeecode.net> wrote:

> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 05:55:59PM -0700, Lori Bowen Ayre wrote:
> <snip>
> > I'm writing because I would like to get something on the agenda or at
> least
> > to begin discussing an idea.  The idea is that we establish a fund that
> we
> > can use this year and in subsequent years to fund interns for the Google
> > Summer of Code.
>
> To be clear, this would be "funding something _like_ the Google Summer of
> Code" - an "Evergreen Summer of Code" or the like.
>
> > The developers applied and got two interns through this program, which I
> > understand is very impressive.  It takes an established open source
> project
> > of some note to garner Google's attention (or something like that...Dan
> can
> > probably fill you in).
>
> Over 400 projects applied worldwide, and we were one of 175 that were
> accepted. If you look at the list of organizations that were accepted at
> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/accepted_orgs/google/gsoc2011 there
> are many high-calibre projects on that list. Organizations in the first
> year of the Google Summer of Code (GSoc) are generally allotted two
> student slots. There is no guarantee that organizations will be accepted
> in subsequent years, although if the students do well this year and we
> do an equally good (or better) job of applying next year, then our
> chances of being invited to participate again are reasonable.
>
> > To take advantage of Google's contribution, we are supposed to try to
> match
> > the amount of money that Google pays the intern or at least get something
> > reasonably close, as a stipend.  I believe the range is $3000-$5000 per
> > intern.  I believe one intern is paid for and I have $1500 to contribute
> > from the IMLS Grant Partners for the second intern (who is evidently
> slated
> > to develop an Android app for Evergreen).  We need at least another $1500
> >  to be able to fund this second intern.
>
> Per
>
> http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2011/faqs#administrivia
> the amount that Google provides per student is a $5500 stipend; $5000 goes
> to the
> student, $500 to the mentoring organization. (BTW, Galen and I agreed to
> direct the organizational $500 / student to the earmarked Evergreen
> account that our Fiscal Sponsor will set up for us once everything is
> finalized).
>
> > The  IMLS Grant Partners feel that the Google Summer of Code provides an
> > excellent opportunity to increase the potential developer pool for
> Evergreen
> > so we're looking for a way to institutionalize community participation.
>  A
> > special fund seemed like one way to do that.
>
> For what it's worth, several years ago Evergreen applied for the GSoC
> and were turned down. It took Equinox and Laurentian University a very
> short amount of time (a week or so) to turn around and fund two
> Laurentian University students to work on Evergreen for the summer.
> Kevin Beswick brought the magic of autotools to our installation
> process, and Craig Ricciuto brought internationalization support to a
> great deal of Evergreen's interfaces.
>
> > Could you discuss this and let me know what you think?  Anyone have any
> > suggestions for additional funding for this year?   I'll be asking on the
> > general mailing list too, of course, but thought it would be even better
> if
> > I could seek funders AND announce the establishment of a Google Summer of
> > Code Fund for next year at the same time.
>
> Timing is critical; when we hired Kevin and Craig, it was early in the
> spring. We should be aware that part of the attraction of the Google
> Summer of Code for students is that you get exposed to Google (a huge
> potential employer), the prestige of being part of the GSoC (looks great
> on a resume), as well as bits of swag (t-shirts and the like) - along
> with the awesome experience of working on code that people actually use
> and putting software engineering theory into practice. Students who
> weren't offered a position in the GSoC this year may already have landed
> other positions for the summer - and for those students who have not
> already found other employment for the summer, they may be less
> enthusiastic about an "Evergreen Summer of Code".
>



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