google summer of code

[Stephan Arts]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
>  It's that time of year again.  Just wondering if we want to submit Xfce
>  as a mentoring organisation for GSoC.  I'd be happy to take care of the
>  paperwork and act as the org administrator, as well as mentor a student
>  (or two?).
>
>  Xfce dev people: I know you guys have been increasingly busy over the
>  past year or so, so I'd like to get an idea of who would be willing and
>  able to commit to mentoring a student if we apply and are accepted.
>  Obviously, if we don't have say 4 or 5 people who can be mentors,
>  there's probably no point in even applying.
>
>  I've created a page on the wiki (http://wiki.xfce.org/gsoc-2008-ideas)
>  with some project ideas that I spent a whole 15 minutes thinking about;
>  everyone feel free to add to/edit that.  Don't be shy -- anything from
>  module improvements to medium-sized new features to new panel plugins to
>  new goodies.  Note of course that these are just preliminary ideas, and
>  we don't yet know if we can come up with enough mentors or will even be
>  accepted into the program.

I like the idea, you can count me in as a mentor. :-)

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Stephan