[gci-announce] Organization Applications now open for Google Code-in 2015 // WE'RE IN!
Michael Hall
mhall119 at ubuntu.com
Fri Nov 13 20:37:31 UTC 2015
Great job! Thanks to everybody who got this going and kept it going!
Michael Hall
mhall119 at ubuntu.com
On 11/13/2015 03:22 PM, José Antonio Rey wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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>
> > <mailto: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>
> <mailto: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>
> > <mailto: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>>
> > > > <mailto: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>
> <mailto: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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> >
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