[Tools-team] Re: Google summer of code - tools team participation?

[Brian E Carpenter <[e-mail]>]

Henrik Levkowetz wrote:
> During the tools team call today, Stas had an interesting suggestion:
> 
> Get the tools work to benefit from the Google 'Summer of Code'
> with one or a few projects.  (Ref: http://code.google.com/soc/)
> 
> There would be two possible ways to do this:
> 
> A. Apply for the IETF tools team to be a mentoring organization,
>    and provide a few projects (as many as we can provide mentors
>    for), or
> 
> B. Submit a project to Internet2, which is already a mentoring
>    organization, and provide mentoring under Internet2's umbrella.
> 
> 
> Alternative A has the advantage of being able to run more than a
> single project (Internet2, having only a fixed number of projects
> to run, don't want to have them *all* doing tools-team work) --
> but also has the drawback that we need to apply and be approved as
> a mentoring organization, and need to provide more mentors.
> 
> Alternative B has the benefit that we won't have the added overhead
> of applying to be a mentoring organization, and we'll have one round
> of 'Summer of Code' to learn the ropes, at a limited investment in
> mentoring.
> 
> In either case, we need the following (and please, if you have
> input on either of these, reply now - we need to act fairly fast
> on this).
> 
>   0. Agreement that its a good idea to participate with one or more
>      projects in the Summer of Code.  (Henrik thinks yes.)
> 
> 	Brian?  Ray?

Very honest reply: I don't have time to look into it enough to
have an opinion. From what you say, I'd go the Internet2 route
because otherwise I suspect you'd  experience overhead. FWIW
Internet2 and Google are both ISOC organizational members.
So take this as a No Objection ballot.

> 
>   1. Good project ideas.  Please submit ideas.  The students have
>      3 months to work on the projects (between May 23 and Aug. 21)
>      including startup time.  Once we agree on project(s), note that
>      they need to be written up and submitted, either via Internet2
>      or as part of a mentoring organization application.  Deadline:
>      May 1st, 17:00 PDT.
> 
> 	(I thought one idea could be the notification tool.
> 	 It seems to have an appropriate size and can be judged well
> 	 on success or failure, I think.)
> 
>   2. Mentors.  Please indicate if you would be willing to act as a
>      mentor for a tools-team project under the Google Summer of Code.
> 
>  	(Henrik is up for mentoring 1 student.  Other?)

Sorry, absolutely no cycles.

    Brian

> 
> 
>   3. If sufficient interest (responses to 1. and 2. above):
>      Handling the application for Mentoring Organization status,
>      and handling the administrative contacts with Google under
>      the program.
> 
> 
> Thoughts, comments?
> 
> 
> 	Henrik
> 
> 
> 

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