call for advertising: google summer of code 2008

[Vincent]

On 3/5/08, Mike Massonnet <mmassonnet at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 11:19:45PM -0500, Erik Harrison wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu>
> wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > >  As some of you already know, I'm in the process of applying to
> Google's
> > >  Summer of Code as a mentoring organisation.  Xfce applied in 2006,
> but
> > >  wasn't accepted.  I don't really know why, but hopefully this year we
> > >  can do a bit better.  To that end, I've created a few pages on our
> wiki,
> > >  and people have been working on them for the past couple weeks:
> > >
> > >  http://wiki.xfce.org/gsoc-2008-ideas
> > >  http://wiki.xfce.org/gsoc-2008-mentors
> > >  http://wiki.xfce.org/gsoc-2008-students
> > >
> > >  Now, we won't know if we've been accepted into the program until
> March
> > >  17th.  However, I'd like to generate some interest for our
> participation
> > >  in the program; in particular, I'd like to get some names on that
> > >  'students' wiki page.
> > >
> > >  So, if you don't mind, if you have a blog, or some other means of
> > >  publishing to a group of people (via means other than spam, of
> course),
> > >  could you please do a little advertising for us?  Just point out that
> > >  we're applying to the program, we're looking for student
> participants,
> > >  and give a link to our wiki page (the main 'ideas' page).
> > >
> >
> > I no longer hang out on the Xubuntu mailing lists, but if someone
> > around here does perhaps this info could be forwarded on? I remember
> > the early days of the list being full of people asking for
> > enhancements or changes to the core desktop, I imagine there would be
> > a lot of interest. Similar for any other substantial distribution that
> > uses Xfce as the default desktop.
>
> Yeah, and the Ubuntu folk is mainly young, so I bet there can be
> students interested.


I'll put up a note on xubuntu.wordpress.com and forward this to the
xubuntu-devel (or perhaps -users?) mailinglist this afternoon (Dutch time).

Cheers
> mike



Best,
-- 
Vincent
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