[gci-announce] Organization Applications now open for Google Code-in 2015

Benjamin Kerensa bkerensa at gmail.com
Tue Nov 10 01:45:11 UTC 2015


Aside from competitiveness a Ubuntu Community Member cannot complete the
application instead someone at Canonical will need to do it as it enters
the project into a legal agreement. Luke Faraone and I did the last GSOC
and the legal agreements are roughly the same and when we did GSOC we had
Amanda Brock (Canonical General Counsel sign off on it).

I'm not sure if all that can be done by Wednesday or whether Canonical
would be comfortable with a non-employee entering Canonical into a legal
agreement with Google.

There was a gsoc mailing list where previous discussions took place and
planning.... It might be good to clean some learnings from that list on
what we went through to get even a signoff from Canonical to put in the
application.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-soc/

Also I would chat with Daniel Holbach as he helped liason between me and
Luke and Canonical's legal team and has helped out with a few of these now
IIRC.

On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 4:52 PM, Charles Profitt <ubuntu at cprofitt.com> wrote:

> Regardless of the competitive nature of the application I think it might
> be worth the interested parties go through the process. At the very
> least it will give people experience with the process.
>
> Charles
>
>
> On Mon, 2015-11-09 at 18:39 +0000, Benjamin Kerensa wrote:
> > I think with deadline this week and not much effort put into an app
> > the likelihood of approval is slim. The process is pretty competitive.
> >
> > Might be best to pass till next year and then you could even spend
> > that time talking to previous Ubuntu GSoC mentors.
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 10:36 AM José Antonio Rey <jose at ubuntu.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >         Just as a quick reminder, deadline is on Wednesday. I believe
> >         all teams will benefit from this project, since anyone needing
> >         a hand will be able to register a task in the system. Also, we
> >         can get a new whole generation of contributors, and even maybe
> >         find some new leaders in the project.
> >
> >         I'd love to see this come to life, and if anyone from any team
> >         wants to be a mentor or org admin if we get accepted, please
> >         let us know here!
> >
> >
> >         On Mon, Nov 9, 2015, 13:30 Nicholas Skaggs
> >         <nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com> wrote:
> >
> >                 On 11/04/2015 02:23 PM, Benjamin Kerensa wrote:
> >                 > The last attempt was by myself and Luke Faraone it
> >                 wasn't so much a
> >                 > lack of mentors but our application process was
> >                 difficult to navigate
> >                 > because we needed sign off from Canonical. We
> >                 finally got it in and
> >                 > Google declined is.
> >                 >
> >                 > We have had other non Google mentoring programs
> >                 alongside Ubuntu that
> >                 > worked like a The WOU and Purdue classes I mentored
> >                 on Ubuntu Dev work.
> >                 >
> >                 >
> >                 >
> >                 > On Wednesday, November 4, 2015, Elizabeth K. Joseph
> >                 <lyz at ubuntu.com
> >                 > <mailto:lyz at ubuntu.com>> wrote:
> >                 >
> >                 >     On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 1:46 PM, José Antonio Rey
> >                 <jose at ubuntu.com
> >                 >     <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >                 >     > Hey everyone,
> >                 >     >
> >                 >     > I got this email today and believe this would
> >                 be a great
> >                 >     opportunity to get
> >                 >     > fresh people in the community. What do you
> >                 say?
> >                 >
> >                 >     I love these programs and think it would be
> >                 great for Ubuntu get
> >                 >     involved with one (whether it be a Code-in, or
> >                 GSoC or Outreachy). But
> >                 >     we've always struggled to find mentors and
> >                 administrators for the
> >                 >     program.
> >                 >
> >                 >     So I think the better question is:
> >                 >
> >                 >     Are there any volunteers who would like to run
> >                 this? Two org admins
> >                 >     are required.
> >                 >
> >                 >     --
> >                 >     Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph || Lyz || pleia2
> >                 >
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> >                 > --
> >                 > Benjamin Kerensa
> >                 >
> >                 >
> >                 >
> >                 >
> >
> >                 I'll volunteer as well. I like the idea, and I'm happy
> >                 to help as
> >                 needed. I agree with Liz though. Many hands make light
> >                 work, and the
> >                 success of initiatives like this depend on having a
> >                 few volunteers to
> >                 help run it. Anyone else willing to put there name in
> >                 to help make it
> >                 happen?
> >
> >
> >                 Nicholas
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