[Fwd: Summer of Code 2007 mentors]

[Brooks Moses <brooks dot moses at codesourcery dot com>]

This was just posted in gcc@.  I remember that there was some discussion 
about GFortran projects for the Summer of Code, so presumably we'd need 
someone from GFortran to sign up as a mentor.

- Brooks



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Summer of Code 2007 mentors
Date: 15 Mar 2007 10:46:04 -0700
From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org

GCC has been approved as a supported project for Google's Summer of
Code 2007.  Summer of Code is a program in which Google pays students
to work on open source projects.

Now we need people to sign up as mentors.  As a rule of thumb I think
mentors should be restricted to people listed in the MAINTAINERS file,
which still gives us plenty to choose from.

If you are interested, please sign up at
    http://code.google.com/soc/mentor_step1.html

The benefits of being a mentor for a student are the chance to help
him or her learn about gcc and increase the number of people who work
on it.  And, of course, gcc will improve.  Plus I think that the
mentor gets a T-shirt.

If you sign up as a mentor, you will be able to vote on the projects
submitted to Summer of Code for gcc.  That will be helpful even if you
don't wind up acting as a mentor for any specific project.

For each approved and completed project, the student will receive
$4500, and the gcc project will receive $500.  As we did last year,
our share of the money will go to the Free Software Foundation.

That URL again:
    http://code.google.com/soc/mentor_step1.html

Thanks!

Ian