Re: Google Summer of Code 2018: Call for mentors and ideas

[Martin Liška <mliska at suse dot cz>]

On 01/23/2018 12:08 PM, Prathamesh Kulkarni wrote:
> On 23 January 2018 at 16:26, Martin Jambor <mjambor@suse.cz> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 17 2018, Martin Jambor wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> following a discussion at IRC about an upcoming deadline to register GCC
>>> as an independent organization for Google Summer of Code 2018 (GSoC), I
>>> have volunteered to serve as the org-admin for GCC if:
>>>
>>>   - there is not another volunteer (so step up if you are!),
>>>
>>>   - the community does not object (so let me and/or the steering
>>>     committee know if you think I am not the right person!), and
>>>
>>>   - we have at least 4 good project ideas together(!) with willing
>>>     mentors by next Monday January 22 (the deadline is on Tuesday).  I
>>>     will be very happy if we have more.
>>>
>>
>> I consider the above conditions fulfilled and have started applying.
>>
>> Unfortunately, Google requires there are at least two org-admins for an
>> organization.  We need to an additional admin by 6pm CET, which is in a
>> little over 6 hours.  So, who would like to do this with me?  (We can
>> have up to five :-).
> If it's OK, I can volunteer to be backup admin.
> 
> Thanks,
> Prathamesh

If needed, please do the same with me.

Martin

>>
>> Since I have started this thread, I expect to do most of the
>> org-admining, so any additional admin should not have that much work
>> with it.  But they apparently want a back-up as they want a reply to any
>> inquiry they might have within 36 hours.
>>
>> My apologies for finding out this late but I did go through various
>> documents about the program and the requirement was not listed there, it
>> only popped up half-way through the application.
>>
>> Martin