Google Summer of Code 2010 - Call for mentors

[Diego Novillo <dnovillo at google dot com>]

We are glad to announce that GCC has been accepted Google's Summer of
Code 2010 program.  Summer of Code is a program sponsored by Google in
which students are paid to contribute to open source projects.  This
will be GCC's fifth year of participation.  For more information, see
http://code.google.com/soc/ .

Student applications will be accepted from March 29, 2010 to April 9,
2010.  Each student will work with a mentor from the project.  As
we've done in past years, we need to have a set of mentors who are
prepared to work with students.  I would like to encourage any
interested experienced GCC developer to become a mentor for the
project.  Being a mentor does not require that you actually work with
a student: we normally have many more available mentors than we do
students.  All mentor volunteers (and only mentor volunteers) will be
able to see and vote on all student project proposals.

This year, I will act as administrator for the program and Ian will be
our backup admin.  We will acept as a mentor anybody who is listed as
a maintainer of some part of gcc in the MAINTAINERS file.  If you are
not a maintainer but still want to be a mentor, we are open to being
convinced.

To become a mentor, you need to go http://socghop.appspot.com/ and
create an account.  Then click on "Apply to become a mentor" over on
the left and select the GCC project.  If you are a returning mentor,
you can use the same login ID you created in the past.  For
documentation on applying and managing your mentor profile, see
http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2010/userguide#depth_mentor.


Thanks.  Diego.