<div dir="ltr">Mentors need to fill out specific projects on an Ideas page on the OpenStack wiki. Here are specifics from their FAQ about what OpenStack as a project needs to do to apply. Applications open Monday 3/18 and are due 3/29. <br>
<br><h3><span style="font-size:small">1. How does a mentoring organization apply?</span></h3>
<p><span style="font-size:small">The organization should choose a single administrator to submit its proposal via the <em>Google Summer of Code</em> 2013 site between March 18 - March 29, 2013.</span></p>
<h3><span style="font-size:small"><a name="2._What_should_a_mentoring_organization"></a>2. What should a mentoring organization proposal look like?</span></h3>
<p><span style="font-size:small">In addition to anything else your
organization would like to submit as an proposal, Google will be asking
(at least) the following questions as part of the proposal process:</span></p>
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-family:Arial"><li style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:21px" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:small">Describe your organization.</span></li>
<li style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:21px" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:small">Why is your organization applying to participate in <em>Google Summer of Code</em> 2013? What do you hope to gain by participating?</span></li>
<li style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:21px" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:small">Has your organization participated in past <em>Google Summer of Codes</em>? (yes/no)</span></li>
<li style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:21px" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:small">If
you answered “yes” to the question above, please summarize your
involvement and the successes and challenges of your participation.
Please also list your pass/fail rate for each year.</span></li><li style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:21px" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:small">If your organization has not previously participated in <em>Google Summer of Code</em>, have you applied in the past? If so, for what year(s)?</span></li>
<li style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:21px" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:small">What <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical">Open Source Initiative approved</a> license(s) does your project use?</span></li>
<li style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:21px" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:small">What
is the URL for your Ideas list? **This is the most important part of
your proposal. Please make sure we can access it and it is complete when
you submit this proposal. “Placeholder” or inaccessible ideas pages
will be grounds for an automatic rejection for participation in <em>Google Summer of Code</em> 2013.**</span></li><li style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:21px" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:small">What is the main development mailing list for your organization?</span></li>
<li style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:21px" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:small">What is the main IRC channel for your organization?</span></li><li style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:21px" dir="ltr">
<span style="font-size:small">Who will be your backup organization administrator?</span></li><li style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:21px" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:small">What criteria did you use to select the mentors? Please be as specific as possible.</span></li>
<li style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:21px" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:small">What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students? Please be as specific as possible.</span></li>
<li style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:21px" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:small">What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors? Please be as specific as possible.</span></li>
<li style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:21px" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:small">What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your project's community before, during and after the program?</span></li>
<li style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:21px" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:small">Are you a new organization who has a Googler or other organization to vouch for you? If so, please list their name(s) here.</span></li>
<li style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:21px" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:small">Are
you an established or larger organization who would like to vouch for a
new organization applying this year? If so, please list their name(s)
here.</span></li><li style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:21px" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:small">What will you do to encourage that your accepted students stick with the project after <em>Google Summer of Code</em> concludes?</span></li>
</ol>
<p><span style="font-size:small"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:small">A few notes on the mentoring organization proposal:</span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-family:Arial"><li><span style="font-size:small">If you take a look at the <a href="http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2013" target="_blank">program timeline</a>,
we've left two weeks for students to get to know you before submitting
their proposals. It is critical that it be obvious how students should
reach you to discuss applying to your organization; plan to link this
information from your Ideas list at the very least.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:small">The email addresses associated with
the Google Account information provided during the proposal process will
be used as the primary mode of contact by Google throughout the
program, e.g. the email address which we will use to subscribe you to
the <em>Google Summer of Code</em><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-mentors-list"> mentors/admins-only mailing list</a>.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:small">In addition to the proposal, the mentoring organization will be required to sign a <a href="http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2013/org_admin_agreement" target="_blank">Mentoring Organization Participation Agreement</a>.</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:small"><br> </span></p>
<h3><span style="font-size:small"><a name="3._What_is_an_Ideas_list"></a>3. What is an Ideas list?</span></h3>
<p><span style="font-size:small">An Ideas list should be a list of
suggested student projects. This list is meant to introduce contributors
to your project's needs and to provide inspiration to would-be student
applicants. It is useful to classify each idea as specifically as
possible, e.g. "must know Python" or "easier project; good for a student
with more limited experience with C++." If your organization plans to
provide a proposal template for the students, it would be good to
include it on your Ideas list.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:small">Keep in mind that your ideas list
should be a starting point for student proposals; we've heard from past
mentoring organization participants that some of their best student
projects are those that greatly expanded on a proposed idea or were
blue-sky proposals not mentioned on the ideas list at all. A link to a
bug tracker for your open source organization is NOT an ideas list.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:small">You can check out the <a href="http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2011/Ideas">Ideas list for KDE</a> for <em>Google Summer of Code</em> in 2011 to get an idea of what we’re looking for in an ideas list.<span style="font-family:Arial"> <br>
</span></span></p><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Álvaro López García <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alvaro.lopez.garcia@cern.ch" target="_blank">alvaro.lopez.garcia@cern.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Wed 13 Mar 2013 (13:18), Anne Gentle wrote:<br>
> Hi all -<br>
<br>
Dear Anne.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> The deadline for projects to apply for Google Summer of Code is March 28th.<br>
> Who is interested in making our Ideas page and mentoring? I'm happy to help<br>
> in an administrative role but need mentors and project ideas.<br>
<br>
</div>I might be interested in the mentoring part, since we at the CSIC have<br>
several developments in mind for Openstack, but I do not know if I can<br>
apply and what does it really mean to be a mentor.<br>
<br>
Warm regards,<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">--<br>
Álvaro López García <a href="mailto:aloga@ifca.unican.es">aloga@ifca.unican.es</a><br>
Instituto de Física de Cantabria <a href="http://devel.ifca.es/~aloga/" target="_blank">http://devel.ifca.es/~aloga/</a><br>
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Avda. de los Castros s/n<br>
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