I’m not so hot at fundraising, how about you?
This summer I’ve been trying to find other sponsors for the Fedora Summer Coding program. Timing was short from the start, but it was worth the effort. I’m not having much success, and I think that’s...
View ArticleSummer rolling in Fedora Summer Coding
The best part of Fedora Summer Coding 2010 has begun: students are working on their projects with mentors and related communities. Although some of it may happen on the program discussion list, most...
View ArticleMidway point approaching for Fedora Summer Coding
The season is clipping right along for Fedora Summer Coding. The projects are set and running, and we’re approaching the mid-term evaluation period 05 to 12 July. A quick look at the numbers: 15...
View ArticleIt’s time to help organize the next session of Fedora Students Contributing...
We haven’t formally picked a new name for Fedora Summer Coding, but we need to, and ‘Students Contributing’ has the advantages so far. We’re not sticking to summer in one hemisphere and we’re already...
View ArticleSummer of Code – time to do something, anything … but not by me
Folks: For this coming year, if Fedora chooses to participate in the Google Summer of Code (and I think we should), I have decided that I am not going to be involved. This is not complete abandonment....
View ArticleTime to start Fedora GSoC work
As I explained in a previous blog post, I am not going to participate in Fedora’s Google Summer of Code presence this coming year. If Fedora is going to participate, some of you folks need to start...
View ArticleFedora Students Contributing – Live or let die?
Fedora Students Contributing is about to get ignored to death. And maybe it should be, or at least put in to suspended animation. Let me explain why I think this might be the right option, if the...
View ArticleYour project idea is missing! Fedora & Google Summer of Code
All year long people say to me, “This or that project will be perfect for Google Summer of Code.” Where are all those projects? Not on the Fedora ideas page. Folks, check this out – your idea doesn’t...
View ArticlePondering why KDE, GNOME, ASF et al get so many GSoC projects
Back in the fall of 2009 I wrote a report that looked back on the Fedora Project’s five-years of involvement in Google Summer of Code (GSoC.) One glaring truth was that year-over-year we had not gotten...
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Fedora joins Google Code-In 2012
Google Code-In is the pre-college program for 13 to 17 year old students to earn prizes for completing tasks in various open source projects., This year will be the first year that the Fedora Project...
View ArticleCentOS and GSoC
With the Google Summer of Code season upon us, I’ve decided to stick my nose right in to the situation and help run a GSoC for the CentOS Project. I was co-admin for Fedora for 6 GSoC sessions, a...
View ArticleGSoC at CentOS office hours
I love how KB started CentOS Project online office hours right after our joint announcement about the new relationship between Red Hat and CentOS. I don’t think this sort of thing was happening before,...
View ArticleUpdate on CentOS GSoC 2015
Here’s an update on the CentOS Project Google Summer of Code for 2015 posted on the CentOS Seven blog: http://seven.centos.org/2015/06/centos-and-gsoc-2015-suddenly-come-seven-on-7/ This might be of...
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