[Owncloud] some notes about GSoC

[Alessandro Cosentino]

Hi Raghu,

We need a wiki, the owncloud website is not a wiki and very few people
have access to it.
There is *only* one week. It is not enough to become an independent
organization.

Alessandro


On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Raghu Nayyar <me at iraghu.com> wrote:
> Hi Alessandro,
>
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 7:45 PM, Alessandro Cosentino <cosenal at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> We have four potential ownCloud projects, each with mentor and
>> backup-mentor.
>> https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GSOC_ideas#ownCloud
>>
>> This is great and makes me hope that maybe next year we can actually
>> apply as independent organization.
>> Please have a look at the idea lists and comment things you don't like.
>>
>> There seems to be some confusion on how the process of GSoC works from
>> now on, so I will point out some important steps:
>>
>> * During this week, each organization (in our case openSUSE) will send
>> a general proposal to Google based on the ideas list.
>> * Based on this application, Google will accept/reject the
>> organization and, in case of acceptance, will assign a *limited*
>> number of spots to each organization.
>>
>> OpenSUSE will probably get funding for ~12 students (based on
>> statistics from previous years).
>>
>> This is to say that most likely not all four projects will go through,
>> so at some point we will have to decide which student deserves it the
>> most and which projects are actually important for ownCloud. The
>> decision on which student proposal to accept will be taken by all
>> mentors in openSUSE and not just by ownCloud people, so we will also
>> have to convince openSUSE people that our projects are important for
>> them as well.
>>
>> One more thing: the first step to become an independent organization
>> is to create a permanent page where we put GSoC ideas and Junior Jobs
>> all-year around. Where is the best place to do that? Should I use the
>> wiki page on github? If yes, of which repo? Who has r+w access to it?
>
>
> Why don't we use the main website, ownCloud.org/dev/junior-jobs or something
> of that sort to display Junior Jobs or/and App Spec from GitHub, if that is
> possible.
>
> I guess there is still a week's time to register as an organization. I am
> not sure how it works, but can't we do that this year itself?
>>
>>
>> Alessandro
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>
> --
> Sincerely,
> Raghu
>
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