[gentoo-dev] Summer of Code students and Planet Gentoo

[Daniel Drake]

Blogging was very popular during last year's summer of code, and we 
expect it will be this time too. We (user-relations) have been 
discussing how we can further involve our students with the community by 
aggregating weblogs about their projects on a Planet.

We are proposing the following:

1. We encourage our students to write about their projects on weblogs, 
and will set them up temporary weblogs at gentoo-soc.com if they do not 
have them already

2. We create a new planet at http://planet.gentoo.org/soc for the 
duration of the summer, and aggregate their weblogs there.

3. Additionally, we add them to Planet Gentoo and Gentoo Universe for 
the duration of the summer.

You may be wondering why have (3) as well as (2): We simply want to 
involve them with the community as much as possible. While this suits 
what we are aiming to do, I guess some people may be opposed to this, as 
Planet/Universe is currently a developers-only thing.

If we do decide against (3), we still plan to do (1) and (2), as this 
won't disrupt anything.

We are talking of 14 students, 4 of whom are already developers, and 
there is the possibility that not all of them will blog (but we'd like 
them to).

Any comments?

Thanks,
Daniel
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