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reply RazvanN <razvan.nitu1305 gmail.com> writes:
Hello everyone,

As I posted last week, we are currently preparing to apply as an 
org for GSOC. As such, I have selected a list of projects that 
are candidates for GSOC. The problem is that we do not have 
sufficient mentors. Please take a look at this list [1] and if 
you are willing to mentor any of the projects add yourself to the 
  "Point of contact" region. It doesn't matter how many people 
have already put themselves there; the more the better. Also, if 
you do that, please make sure that the description follows the 
guidelines presented here [2].

If you have a project of your own that you want to propose or you 
think that an existing project should be marked as `gsoc2021`, 
please contact me so that we can discuss it.
We have until the 19th of February to come with a great "Project 
Ideas" list and I'm sure we can make it.

Cheers,
RazvanN

[1] 
https://github.com/dlang/projects/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Agsoc2021
[2] 
https://google.github.io/gsocguides/mentor/defining-a-project-ideas-list
Feb 11 2021
next sibling parent reply 12345swordy <alexanderheistermann gmail.com> writes:
On Thursday, 11 February 2021 at 10:29:14 UTC, RazvanN wrote:

 Hello everyone,

 As I posted last week, we are currently preparing to apply as 
 an org for GSOC. As such, I have selected a list of projects 
 that are candidates for GSOC. The problem is that we do not 
 have sufficient mentors. Please take a look at this list [1] 
 and if you are willing to mentor any of the projects add 
 yourself to the
  "Point of contact" region. It doesn't matter how many people 
 have already put themselves there; the more the better. Also, 
 if you do that, please make sure that the description follows 
 the guidelines presented here [2].

 [...]


What are the requirements for being a mentor?
Feb 11 2021
parent 12345swordy <alexanderheistermann gmail.com> writes:
On Thursday, 11 February 2021 at 16:02:29 UTC, 12345swordy wrote:

 On Thursday, 11 February 2021 at 10:29:14 UTC, RazvanN wrote:

 Hello everyone,

 As I posted last week, we are currently preparing to apply as 
 an org for GSOC. As such, I have selected a list of projects 
 that are candidates for GSOC. The problem is that we do not 
 have sufficient mentors. Please take a look at this list [1] 
 and if you are willing to mentor any of the projects add 
 yourself to the
  "Point of contact" region. It doesn't matter how many people 
 have already put themselves there; the more the better. Also, 
 if you do that, please make sure that the description follows 
 the guidelines presented here [2].

 [...]


 What are the requirements for being a mentor?


Fine, I volunteer to be one.
Feb 12 2021
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Max Haughton <maxhaton gmail.com> writes:
On Thursday, 11 February 2021 at 10:29:14 UTC, RazvanN wrote:

 Hello everyone,

 As I posted last week, we are currently preparing to apply as 
 an org for GSOC. As such, I have selected a list of projects 
 that are candidates for GSOC. The problem is that we do not 
 have sufficient mentors. Please take a look at this list [1] 
 and if you are willing to mentor any of the projects add 
 yourself to the
  "Point of contact" region. It doesn't matter how many people 
 have already put themselves there; the more the better. Also, 
 if you do that, please make sure that the description follows 
 the guidelines presented here [2].

 [...]


I am available to mentor for this and SaoC too.
Feb 12 2021
parent RazvanN <razvan.nitu1305 gmail.com> writes:
On Friday, 12 February 2021 at 19:07:19 UTC, Max Haughton wrote:


 I am available to mentor for this and SaoC too.


That's great! The next steps are: (1) put yourself on the 
mentor/point of contact label on the project pages that you want 
to mentor and (2) make sure that the project description matches 
the guidelines from here [1].

Thanks!

[1] 
https://google.github.io/gsocguides/mentor/defining-a-project-ideas-list
Feb 13 2021
prev sibling parent reply Ahmet Sait <nightmarex1337 hotmail.com> writes:
https://google.github.io/gsocguides/mentor/defining-a-project-ideas-list page
mentions:

 ...for an organization hoping for 4 or more students you should 
 have at least 8-10 ideas...


We currently have 6 GSoC projects listed on the ideas page 
https://github.com/dlang/projects/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Ao
en+label%3Agsoc2021 which is rather low. Getting it to at least 8 would both
increase our chances of being selected and give students a bit more leeway for
their proposals if we do get selected.

So please consider mentoring if you have the time and knowledge 
to lead one of the projects 
(https://github.com/dlang/projects/issues), or you can propose 
your own if you think it's missing.
A quick reminder is that GSoC this year is planned to be shorter 
so the projects aimed for summer of code needs to account for 
that. More on that here: 
https://opensource.googleblog.com/2020/10/google-summer-of-code-2021-is-bringing.html

See also the GSoC announcement thread:
https://forum.dlang.org/thread/dpmikdidvhjymcitnvmi forum.dlang.org
Feb 18 2021
parent RazvanN <razvan.nitu1305 gmail.com> writes:
On Thursday, 18 February 2021 at 23:37:56 UTC, Ahmet Sait wrote:

 https://google.github.io/gsocguides/mentor/defining-a-project-ideas-list page
mentions:

 ...for an organization hoping for 4 or more students you 
 should have at least 8-10 ideas...


 We currently have 6 GSoC projects listed on the ideas page 
 https://github.com/dlang/projects/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Ao
en+label%3Agsoc2021 which is rather low. Getting it to at least 8 would both
increase our chances of being selected and give students a bit more leeway for
their proposals if we do get selected.

 So please consider mentoring if you have the time and knowledge 
 to lead one of the projects 
 (https://github.com/dlang/projects/issues), or you can propose 
 your own if you think it's missing.
 A quick reminder is that GSoC this year is planned to be 
 shorter so the projects aimed for summer of code needs to 
 account for that. More on that here: 
 https://opensource.googleblog.com/2020/10/google-summer-of-code-2021-is-bringing.html

 See also the GSoC announcement thread:
 https://forum.dlang.org/thread/dpmikdidvhjymcitnvmi forum.dlang.org


We now have 8 strong projects. Anyone who is interested please 
put yourself in the mentor list of any of these projects [1] (it 
doesn't matter if the project already has 1 or more mentors; the 
more, the better). Also, please make sure that the project 
descriptions are in good shape. The application deadline is in a 
few hours. Let's keep our fingers crossed.

Cheers,
RazvanN

[1] 
https://github.com/dlang/projects/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Agsoc2021
Feb 19 2021