On last monday the organization application phase of the <link http: code.google.com soc _blank>GSoC 2012 did start. The deadline is the next friday the 9.3. Which means we have like one week from now.
Now it's our turn to apply and to do so and to get the best out of this summer, we urgently need your help
For the moment we need a) possible mentors and b) ideas for projects.
Could you imagine being a mentor?
The mentor is like the project manager for a student and his project. Together with the other mentors you are going to decide which students' proposals will be accepted and you will guide one of these projects over the summer.
You should already be involved in the TYPO3 community and really feel the spirit of TYPO3. You are not going to actually 'work' or even code on your students project. That's really the students' part. The mentor's task is more about involving the student into our community, getting and keeping the student on track and being available for your student's questions.
Expect like 3-5 hours of work per week. You will need to hand in a midterm and a final evaluation to google, which actually is a short questionaire. You are going to do regular status meetings with your student (e.g. by Skype), reviewing the student's work, joining our regular mentor meetings on BigBlueButton e.g. to report about the project status.
Never done something like this before? No problem: You won't be alone. We will have some experienced mentors from the last years again, who gladly will help to solve all questions. This is one of the reasons why we will do regular mentor meetings this year.
What will you get out of it? First of all a great summer with a cool project and a cool student. Also there is a small(!) compensation. Two of our mentors will join the mentor summit in San Francisco at the Google HQ. But most important: You will do something good for your student, for the open source spirit and for TYPO3!
And hey: There will be T-Shirts for everyone!
As I have been a mentor for two years now, I can tell you it's a really nice and fun job and worthful experience.
Any questions about beeing a mentor? Like to be one? <link http: news.typo3.org news article gsoc-2012-we-need-your-help>Get in touch with me!
Ideas for possible projects
When the students apply in the next phase of GSoC, they will hand in project proposals.
As most of the students are not that deep into TYPO3 and about our current projects, we need to provide some possible ideas. In the last years we had an<link http: typo3.org development gsoc2011 ideas _blank>'ideas' page (actually Google requires us to have one), which we need to update for this year's application.
We need any project idea related to the TYPO3 core, FLOW3 or 'Phoenix'. Any rough idea will do! No need for fully concepted/drafted projects, just ideas.
I'm going to collect all of these ideas and discuss them with the mentors. These ideas, which we think are doable by a student during the summer, will be presented on the ideas page.
For example: completely rewriting the v4 list module might not be doable for someone never have seen TYPO3 before. A <link http: browser.srv.pascalj.de _blank>FLOW3 package to browse model data is.
If you are a core team member, core project team member (/leader), a experienced TYPO3 developer or just someone heavily using TYPO3 or FLOW3 and you have an idea? <link http: news.typo3.org news article gsoc-2012-we-need-your-help>Drop me a line!
Make it our "summer of code"
I'm really looking forward to this summer.
Do not hesitate to contact me if you like to participate or if you have any questions or ideas:
- <link http: news.typo3.org news article gsoc-2012-we-need-your-help>tobias.liebig(at)typo3.org
- Twitter: <link http: twitter.com typo3_gsoc _blank>@typo3_gsoc
- or just leave a comment here