[data-carpentry-discuss] Google Summer of Code and NumFOCUS

[Karen Cranston]

I would strongly discourage this for 2015. I've been involved as a GSoC
mentor and organization admin for an umbrella organization for several
years [1]. The deadline for org applications is tomorrow, and the process
of getting accepted as an organization is very competitive. At NESCent, we
would generally start working on our application as soon as they announced
the program. The most important part of the application is having a solid
list of proposed projects, with mentors willing to supervise each one. It
takes a long time to solicit project ideas, revise them, find mentors, etc.
IMHO, it is impossible to put together a competitive application in this
length of time.

Also, if NumFocus was serving as an umbrella organization, then the
organizations who chose to affiliate with NumFocus would not submit their
own separate applications - they would simply include projects in the
NumFocus list of potential projects. This is how NESCent functioned - there
were many evolutionary informatics projects that submitted project ideas as
part of the NESCent application.

Not trying to be a downer. GSoC is *great* program. But I don't think it is
worth the time to try and do something at the last minute. Definitely worth
thinking about for next year, though, if we have ideas for Data Carpentry
programming projects.

Cheers,
Karen

[1] http://informatics.nescent.org/wiki/Main_Page

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 7:01 AM, Raniere Silva <raniere at ime.unicamp.br>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> NumFOCUS has promotes and supports the ongoing research and development of
> open-source computing tools including Data Carpentry.
>
> This year NumFOCUS want to try be a Google Summer of Code
> "umbrella" mentoring organization,
>
>     Umbrella organizations are mentoring organizations accepted into the
> Google
>     Summer of Code program that have other open source organizations
> working
>     "under" them. Sometime organizations that work very closely or have
> very
>     similar goals or communities may get put together under an "umbrella."
>     Google stills expects all organizations under the umbrella, whether
> accepted
>     into the program under their title or not, to adhere to all the rules
> and
>     regulations of the program.
>
>     From
> https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2015/help_page#umbrella_organization
>
> To help promote and support Data Carpentry.
>
> We encourage Data Carpentry to apply to Google Summer of Code under your
> own title
> and will be very happy if you can also do with us.
> If you are interested, please check
> https://github.com/swcarpentry/gsoc2015
> and https://github.com/swcarpentry/gsoc2015/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md.
>
> If you have any question, please email me directly.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Raniere
>
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