[gci-announce] Organization Applications now open for Google Code-in 2015 // WE'RE IN!

José Antonio Rey jose at ubuntu.com
Fri Nov 13 20:22:37 UTC 2015


Just to let everyone know, we have just received emails that Ubuntu has
been accepted as a Code-In organization this year!

Thanks to all of those who helped us get this rolling. Nicholas Skaggs,
Alan Pope and I are the organization administrators right now. If anyone
else wants to help with the task, please shoot us an email to have you on
board.

During the following weeks we'll be getting in touch with different teams
to see if they want to assign a mentor for the contest. If you know you
want to be a mentor to publish tasks, shoot me an email and we'll get that
rolling as well! (Bear in mind, org administrators oversee the entire
organization, while mentors take care of the tasks they publish).

Thanks again, and let's rock this contest!

--
José Antonio Rey

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015, 12:41 Nicholas Skaggs <nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for the feedback everyone! Benjamin, I appreciate the links to
> past efforts so we could reference them in putting together our
> application.
>
> José, Alan and myself have submitted an application on behalf of Ubuntu.
> We should find out if Ubuntu is accepted or not this Friday at 1900 UTC.
> Should we be accepted, we'll be soliciting more of you to come forward
> as mentors and to be involved. Fingers crossed!
>
> Nicholas
>
> On 11/09/2015 08:45 PM, Benjamin Kerensa wrote:
> > 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
> > <mailto: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 <mailto: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
> >     <mailto: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>
> >     >                 > <mailto: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 <mailto: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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