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shinji

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Google's Summer of Code
February 25, 2008, 10:31:04 pm
Google will start Summer of Code program for stuednts and community mentors in this March.
http://code.google.com/soc/2008

The student who complete the task during the summer will receive $4500 each, and the mentoring organization will receive $500.
 As Drupal or Joomla! used to be the mentoring organization, CiviCRM-related proposal may be accepted to them.

Anyone can be a memtor?

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Re: Google's Summer of Code
February 25, 2008, 11:38:21 pm
Hi,

It would make sense to have CiviCRM that registers as a mentor:
"We'll begin accepting applications from open source mentoring organizations on Monday, March 3, 2008; we'll stop accepting organization applications on Wednesday, March 12t"
http://code.google.com/soc/2008/faqs.html#0.1_when_apply

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Re: Google's Summer of Code
February 25, 2008, 11:41:43 pm

I'm curious to hear how many students are there in the civicrm community that are interested and will apply? Currently we have a HUGE (relatively speaking) user community BUT a very small developer community, mainly employed by consulting shops and integrators.

So i'm a bit uncertain if it makes sense for us to apply as a mentoring organization. In the past couple of years, we've not had a lot of interest. But if we do get 5-10 folks interested and willing to apply, we'd be happy to provide mentors and apply for a mentoring organization

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shinji

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Re: Google's Summer of Code
February 26, 2008, 05:28:45 pm
> I'm curious to hear how many students are there in the civicrm community that are interested and will apply?

It depends on the mentor's idea list for students.
The hundreds of students in SoC are just search and find their interested tasks from SoC web app.

If CiviCRM developers community is too small to mentor students' coding, it may be better to call for documentation... Unfortunately, Google finished an pre-university program for documentation or localization in this year.
http://code.google.com/opensource/ghop/2007-8/

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Shall we have a wiki page with projects ideas ?
February 26, 2008, 07:32:14 pm
I'm sure we can put together a nice list of cool ideas to develop.

For what I've seen, the suggestions are mostly "small" changes. Is there a place with big stuff additional modules somewhere I missed ?

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Re: Google's Summer of Code
February 27, 2008, 12:20:12 pm
Some larger "projects" are listed in both the 2.1 and 2.2 roadmap...
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRM/CiviCRM+v2.1
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRM/CiviCRM+v2.2

... and the Requirements section of the wiki has ideas and partially or fully fleshed out proposals for large items like Multi-language support ("CiviLingua"), Pledges, Volunteer Management, etc.

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRM/Requirements+-+ACTIVE+Discussion+and+Revision

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