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

[Hilmar Lapp]

I couldn't agree more, and I'm probably one of the biggest GSoC program
fans out there. It's enormously rewarding if done well, but if not, the
folks in Google's Open Source program *will* notice and remember at
least as much.

Keep in mind also that GSoC is strictly for software code development,
not documentation or lesson development.

  -hilmar

On 2/19/15, 7:22 AM, Karen Cranston wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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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