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

Charles Profitt ubuntu at cprofitt.com
Fri Nov 13 21:03:33 UTC 2015


José:

Fantastic job! 

Charles


On Fri, 2015-11-13 at 20:22 +0000, 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> 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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