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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.<br>
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Keep in mind also that GSoC is strictly for software code development,
not documentation or lesson development.<br>
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-hilmar<br>
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On 2/19/15, 7:22 AM, Karen Cranston wrote:
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<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]
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<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 19,
2015 at 7:01 AM, Raniere Silva <span dir="ltr"><<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:raniere@ime.unicamp.br"
target="_blank">raniere@ime.unicamp.br</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote
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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 moz-do-not-send="true"
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 moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://github.com/swcarpentry/gsoc2015" target="_blank">https://github.com/swcarpentry/gsoc2015</a><br>
and <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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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