GSoC 2015

I can be a mentor. I would prefer the client side, but mentoring someone on server side doesn't scare me either. Should we propose some tasks?
I can allocate about 4-6 hours each week.

How does this work ?

How does this work ?

@augier I was a mentor before and I'll try to briefly describe the process. More can be read from gsoc website.

1. Google asks Free Software projects to apply.
2. Interested projects finds mentors and project ideas.
3. Google selects organizations from those who apply.
4. Students apply for projects with selected organizations.
5. Organizations prioritize and evaluates applications. They may assign small tasks to test the students' abilities.
6. Each organization can ask Google to give them slots based on good proposals.
7. Google alotts slots to organizations.
8. There will be a mid term evaluation and final evaluation.
9. Each project can set rules for student interaction and reports.
10. Completed projects are paid 5000 US$ and organizations get 500 US$.

Let me know if you want to know more.

Just read through http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2015/help_page#1._How_does_a_mentoring_organization and I didn't see anything that would stop us from applying.

I can volunteer to be one of the administrators towards Google - one other would be needed. This is for communicating and also to assign a new mentor in case the selected mentor becomes unavailable.

@dumitruursu they say mentors should expect approx 5 hours per week per student. I guess one student would be good then :)

We would need to propose some tasks - this is a requirement for applying to collect those into a list so students can see them easily. Proposals?

I can help or handle the application towards GSoC.

Just some things from the top of my head:
* Port to BS3
* a proper REST API (right now we have a mess, sprinkled across models and controllers)
* separation of the federation stuff as a Rails engine

I'm not sure if the first one is hard enough for 3 months of work, and maybe the last 2 ones are too hard.

Port to BS3 is not that easy. There's still some part of the UI that are not even finished to be ported to BS. Firstly stream and header.
I like the idea ! Let's apply !

Do students can choose the project they'll wor on ?
Because if everyone is ok and it doesn't require to be full time on the code (I wont have holidays this summer), I'd like to apply as student (ans I admit that 5000 USD would help me a lot).

@jasonrobinson I can volunteer to be a backup admin.

@augier yes, students can choose ideas from list or propose their own ideas.

@augier gsoc is supposed to be full time work for three months. Again that depends on the project though

Ok, this is what I feared :/
Too bad for me :p