Special topic: Fedora Summer Coding
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Summer 2010 Coding[1].
Contributing Writer: Karsten Wade
Ideas for Fedora Summer Coding Due April 9th
Please submit your ideas for students to work on for the Fedora summer 2010 coding projects by April 9th.
Karsten Wade writes[1],
"While we finish the Summer Coding 2010 page, it is past time for you all to let us know the problems you would like to see solved by summer coding/internship students." The idea[2] page has all of the ideas thus far, and there is also a page on how to fill out the ideas page[3]
"Let’s get this filled with serious ideas you are willing to mentor for or help find the mentor.
Join the discussion list and be prepared to talk about your ideas or proposals. If you were already a mentor and want to help with mentoring, such as proposal reviews, let us know and join the mentors list.
Tracking these ideas is a PITA and in fact the lack of an ideas page lead to us not getting in the Google Summer of Code this year. This is all part of a larger issue around tracking smaller ideas for beginners and students, but for now this will have to do.
Anyone want to hack on OpenHatch.org[4], please help. We’re hoping some of the functionality we are handling manually may be included in upcoming versions of OpenHatch. If that direction gets us fruit, we may use OpenHatch as an ongoing way to expose projects to students and other new contributors."
Sponsors sought for Fedora Summer 2010 Coding Projects
Karsten Wade writes[1], "[a] cornerstone of our Fedora Summer Coding is connecting sponsors (those with resources to share) with students (those with time, passion, and skills to share.) It’s not necessary as a sponsor to have ideas of how your resources should be used, that’s what the Fedora Project and JBoss.org mentors and sub-projects are prepared to do.
We’ll also sort the student ideas, generate the list of approved proposals, work with the students throughout the summer, and make sure you hear back about how things went. You can learn more about the model we are using in this blog post, Summer Of Code Swimchart: Now With More Generic[2].