Summer of Code 2007

Application

Google Summer of Code has a formal application process for mentoring applications this year. The window is March 5-12. This section is for development of our joint application with Annodex.

Here is a cut-and-paste from the GSoC faq with the questions we must address:

- Describe your organization - Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2007? What do you hope to gain by participating? - Did your organization participate in GSoC 2005 or 2006? If so, please summarize your involvement and the successes and failures of your student projects. - If your organization has not previously participated in GSoC, have you applied in the past? If so, for what year(s)? - Who will your organization administrator be? Please include Google Account information. - What license does your project use? - What is the URL for your ideas page? - What is the main development mailing list for your organization? - What is the main IRC channel for your organization? - Does your organization have an application template you would like to see students use? If so, please provide it now. - Who will be your backup organization administrator? Please include Google Account information. - Who will your mentors be? Please include Google Account Information. - What criteria did you use to select these individuals as mentors? Please be as specific as possible. - What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students? - What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors? - What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your project's community before, during and after the program? - What will you do to ensure that your accepted students stick with the project after GSoC concludes?