[Xapian-discuss] GSoC 2012

[Olly Betts]

Google have announced their "Summer of Code" for this year - for
background info see:

http://code.google.com/soc/

We took part last year with great success, and after a brief discussion
with those who mentored last year, we concluded it was worthwhile
applying to take part again.

I'm happy to act as admin again and submit the application.

I've updated of the list of project ideas for students on the wiki from
last year, removing those done tackled last year, and updating those
where work has been done outside GSoC:

http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/GSoCProjectIdeas

If you're interested in acting as a mentor for one of the ideas there,
or have an idea for a project with a scope suitable for a student to
complete in about 12 weeks, please update that page.  Ideas without a
potential mentor aren't very useful though, so being willing to mentor
your new idea is helpful.

Ideas don't have to be for work on Xapian itself - projects related to
Xapian in other software are within scope.  A wider range of project
ideas will give us a broader appeal to students.

Mentoring organisation applications open on 27th Feb, close on March 9th,
and are reviewed until 15th with accepted orgs announced on 16th, so
getting the ideas list into excellent shape before March 9th is the
target - a little over 3 weeks away (Google indicate a good list of
ideas is a key factor in deciding which orgs to select).  You can still
add and improve ideas after that of course.

If you are a student eligible for GSoC and interested in working on
Xapian, please feel free to get in touch.  You're welcome to propose
your own project idea rather than being restricted to what's on the
list.

If you want to discuss being a mentor or a student, or a project idea,
you can do so on the mailing list or on #xapian on freenode (if you
aren't already an IRC user, see http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/GSoC_IRC for
links to a web IRC client).

There's also a general GSoC IRC channel #gsoc on freenode.

Cheers,
    Olly