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Hi, |
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On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 11:11:07PM -0700, Denis Dupeyron wrote: |
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> Google Summer of Code 2016 is starting. |
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<...> |
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> In this initial |
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> phase the audience is project mentors. Note that you do not need to be |
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> a Gentoo developer to be a mentor. |
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<...> |
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> If you would like to be a mentor for this year please tell us sooner |
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> rather than later. You can be a mentor following up with students while |
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> they're working on their project, or you can be an expert-mentor in a |
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> specific field who will be called in to advise on an as-needed basis |
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> (or maybe never). We will also need people to help us review project |
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> proposals. In case you can help in any capacity don't hesitate to |
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> contact us. GSoC is seriously fun! |
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> If you want to reach us or have any questions about any of the above, |
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> the easiest way is to ping Calchan or rafaelmartins in the #gentoo-soc |
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> channel on Freenode. |
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I'm seriously thinking about becoming a mentor this year. However, I'd |
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like to apply for the imapfw project¹. imapfw aims at replacing |
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OfflineIMAP in the long term. OfflineIMAP is a known application in the |
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portage tree, I guess. I am the current "upstream" maintainer of both |
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OfflineIMAP and imapfw. |
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IOW, this GSoC project would not be a direct enhancement for the |
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Gentoo's related stuff. It's just an app in the tree. Hence, why am I |
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requesting you? It's mostly about audience and having this GSoC project |
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more widely spread, especially to the students. Also, this could greatly |
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help to find a backup mentor. |
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I don't aim to take a slot in the GSoC in the name of Gentoo if you |
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don't want to. In this case, I'd like to request you to add a final |
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secion to your ideas page like "Other's projects you could like" (or |
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something) and a link to our ideas page (not yet written). |
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Little projects like ours usually have various difficulties for getting |
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things done while our softwares are still appreciated by final-users |
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needing them. For the GSoC, the worse blockers I can think of are: |
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- having potential students know about us, our project and that we are |
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recruiting too; |
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- let know to the GSoC orgs we are not alone in the process and have |
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some kind of support from bigger open communities. |
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I hope you'll agree to help us a bit in this area. |
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Anyone wanting to help me at making this GSoC successful is welcome. |
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Also, I'm open to any advice. |
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[1] https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/imapfw |
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Regards, |
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Nicolas Sebrecht |
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