<div dir="ltr"><div><div>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. <br><br></div>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. <br><br></div>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. <br><div><br>Cheers,<br>Karen<br><br>[1] <a href="http://informatics.nescent.org/wiki/Main_Page">http://informatics.nescent.org/wiki/Main_Page</a><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 7:01 AM, Raniere Silva <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:raniere@ime.unicamp.br" target="_blank">raniere@ime.unicamp.br</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<br>
NumFOCUS has promotes and supports the ongoing research and development of<br>
open-source computing tools including Data Carpentry.<br>
<br>
This year NumFOCUS want to try be a Google Summer of Code<br>
"umbrella" mentoring organization,<br>
<br>
Umbrella organizations are mentoring organizations accepted into the Google<br>
Summer of Code program that have other open source organizations working<br>
"under" them. Sometime organizations that work very closely or have very<br>
similar goals or communities may get put together under an "umbrella."<br>
Google stills expects all organizations under the umbrella, whether accepted<br>
into the program under their title or not, to adhere to all the rules and<br>
regulations of the program.<br>
<br>
From <a href="https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2015/help_page#umbrella_organization" target="_blank">https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2015/help_page#umbrella_organization</a><br>
<br>
To help promote and support Data Carpentry.<br>
<br>
We encourage Data Carpentry to apply to Google Summer of Code under your own title<br>
and will be very happy if you can also do with us.<br>
If you are interested, please check <a href="https://github.com/swcarpentry/gsoc2015" target="_blank">https://github.com/swcarpentry/gsoc2015</a><br>
and <a href="https://github.com/swcarpentry/gsoc2015/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md" target="_blank">https://github.com/swcarpentry/gsoc2015/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md</a>.<br>
<br>
If you have any question, please email me directly.<br>
<br>
Thanks in advance,<br>
Raniere<br>
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