[Dune-devel] Applying to GSoC 2022? They made some changes

[Simon Praetorius]

Do I understand this correctly from the page, that the submission period 
starts at Feb 7th and the deadline is Feb 21st? Nevertheless, it should 
probably be decided soon.

On 1/31/22 09:33, Christian Engwer wrote:
> Hi Christoph,
>
> dorry, the initial mail slipped my notice. I'm in favour of GSOC and
> would also help mentoring projects. I think the setup as in our last
> participation was quite good... having different topics proposed and
> different potential mentors, depending on these topic.
>
> Ciao
> Christian
>
> Am Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 12:25:53AM +0100 schrieb Christoph Grüninger:
>> Hi,
>>
>> we have time until February 7, to start our application to Google summer of
>> code.
>> https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
>>
>> I only got a response from Andreas, he is willing to mentor. Unless more
>> people want to join in, I don't think we should apply to this year's GSoC.
>>
>> Bye
>> Christoph
>>
>> Am 20.11.21 um 21:07 schrieb Christoph Grüninger:
>>> Dear Dune community,
>>>
>>> two times we took part in the Google Summer of Code. It brought us some
>>> workforce, visibility, joy, and Python code.
>>>
>>> Google announced to repeat the program for the 18th time. And they will
>>> have some adjustments:
>>> - Not only students can apply, but everybody that is 18 years or older
>>> and who wants to contribute to an open source project.
>>> - There are multiple sites of projects (~175h and ~350 h).
>>> - Timing is more flexible
>>>
>>> This might help us to widen the pool to people already knowing Dune, but
>>> who would not fit to GSoC in the past:
>>> - PhD students, that are formally no student.
>>> - People on parental leave.
>>> - Researchers that ran out of contract like PhDs, Postdocs
>>>
>>> What do you think? Would these changes motivate you to mentor a project?
>>>
>>> If we find enough Dune people willing to mentor, I can serve as
>>> organization admin and co-mentor.
>>>
>>> Bye
>>> Christoph
>>>
>> -- 
>> Because apparently, even the invisible hand [of the market] doesn’t
>> want to pick beans.         -- Stephen Colbert to US Congress, 2011
>>
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