Fedora Summer Coding community February 2010

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Thoughts and Goals
by Patrick W. Barnes 02 Mar '10

02 Mar '10

Over the last five years, the GSoC program has evolved quite a bit, and the Fedora Project has continued to adapt to the changes and to improve our own practices at the same time. The people leading the program have changed on both sides, the web resources have changed, the size of the program has changed... it has been a fun journey. When JBoss.org wanted to participate in the GSoC program, Google said they would have to participate with the Fedora Project since both are run by the same commercial entity (Red Hat). This forced us into a tough brand collusion situation. While the two projects are almost completely independent of one another, we have been forced to engage on common ground and work together under a name we cannot represent. Each year since I took up leadership of Fedora's participation in 2006, I have tried to improve our resources for students and mentors bit by bit. Since JBoss.org joined with the Fedora Project for the GSoC, this has been even more of a challenge, and even more worthwhile. In setting up new resources, writing new materials, working with Google and engaging in various other activities in support of Fedora and JBoss.org's summer coding ventures, I have tried to keep a few key goals in mind: * Avoiding absolute connection to Google's program I want the resources we set up to be generic enough that they can be used for other summer development programs, not just Google's program, and not necessarily just for programming. * Remaining open to JBoss.org and other Red Hat-sponsored FOSS projects It is unfortunate that Google insists on the brand collusion, but it is also an opportunity. I want to make all Red Hat-sponsored FOSS projects, even beyond Fedora and JBoss.org, to feel welcome participating. * Avoiding brand collusion We are forced into some brand collusion by Google, but we can keep the damage to a minimum. I have tried to make the nature of the connection to Red Hat absolutely clear. Our efforts are not directly sponsored by Red Hat, we do not act or speak on behalf of Red Hat, and while we support programs that are directly connected to Red Hat, this summer coding team has no official affiliation with Red Hat. * Working to the mutual benefit of all involved If at any point this program becomes more harm than good to any of its participants, I would rather kill it than let it cause trouble. We have a wonderful opportunity to bring fresh blood into the FOSS community at large, with the potential to retain strong talent in the Fedora Project, JBoss.org and any other participating FOSS project. This is also a great exercise for the involved mentors and administrators. The only real cost to mentors and students is time. I want to keep it that way. * Engaging students for long-term participation in FOSS I would much rather introduce someone new to FOSS and endear our ways to them than pad the wallet of an experienced contributor. That is the purpose of the GSoC, and of my participation. If anyone gets a job or finds a way to profit from their participation, that is awesome, but it is not the driving goal. I have been the program administrator for the last few years mostly because I was first to step up to the plate and push it forward. Karsten Wade has been a great help in coordinating activities and making things happen that are outside of my abilities. Bob McWhirter was instrumental in allowing JBoss.org to participate with the Fedora Project. Yaakov Nemoy has been a valuable aid in taking our participation toward the next level. I appreciate the involvement of all of our past mentors and administrators, and if anyone wants to step up and make this program better, do not wait for my permission. I am happy to continue in my role as an organization administrator, but I welcome all of the help I can get to make this program the best it can be. Thank you all. That is all I have for now. -- Patrick W. Barnes patrick(a)patrickwbarnes.com http://patrickwbarnes.com/ LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/patrickwbarnes All messages cryptographically signed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP --

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Fwd: Re: Google Summer of Code press blog
by Mel Chua 27 Feb '10

27 Feb '10

FYI - see below. Short version is that the Marketing team will soon get to practice its collaborative press release writing skillz with Kara for the Summer of Code announcement. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code press blog Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:54:38 -0500 From: Kara Schiltz <kschiltz(a)redhat.com> Reply-To: kschiltz(a)redhat.com Organization: Red Hat To: Mel Chua <mel(a)redhat.com> CC: Karsten Wade <kwade(a)redhat.com>, "Paul W. Frields" <pfrields(a)redhat.com> This all sounds good to me. I can start working up some questions. Thanks, Kara Mel Chua wrote: > This all sounds totally awesome to me - would it be ok to forward this > thread to > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/summer-coding to keep > other GSoC organizers/mentors in the loop of what's going on with PR > for this, and to > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing so folks > interested in press release writing can lend a hand? > > Re: collaborative writing - breaking it into a list of questions > sounds great, and then maybe we can have a gobby (collaborative text > editor) sprint to weave everything together? This does sound like a > great opportunity for us to try out more collaborative-PR stuff. > > --Mel > > On 02/25/2010 05:31 PM, Kara Schiltz wrote: >> Thanks, Karsten. This is great. I'll put a placeholder on our PR >> pipeline for a GSoC press blog. I'm thinking we should be ready to go >> with a shell for the blog and then we can just plug in Fedora as a >> mentoring organization once Google makes the announcement on March 14. >> That would allow us to maximize our time during the student application >> window 3/14-3/29. >> I'm up for suggestions on how to make this a collaborative project. >> Maybe we pose a list of questions (who, what, when, where, why, etc) and >> have folks break it up and each take a question to respond to? We can >> then take those responses and weave them together into a press blog. I'm >> open to any suggestions! >> >> Thanks, >> Kara >> >> Karsten Wade wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 01:53:05PM -0500, Kara Schiltz wrote: >>>> Hi Karsten, >>>> >>>> Wanted to follow up on the GSoC Activity Day at SCALE last week. What >>>> are your thoughts on doing a press blog sometime in March that's >>>> focused on Google Summer of Code and what our plans are for 2010? We >>>> could also tie in more about success and participation in prior >>>> years. Let me know if enough details were fleshed out at SCALE to >>>> create a compelling press blog on GSoC. >>> >>> Kara, >>> >>> This sounds like a good idea. We need to wait until at least 14 >>> March, after Google announces mentoring organizations. We presume >>> we're natural to be on it, once we've applied, but there is never a >>> guarantee. >>> >>> I'm including Mel on this because she is working on the GSoC project >>> for the next week or so, and can help make sure we get this on the >>> GSoC part of the Fedora Calendar. We could work it up as a next >>> iteration on collaborative press release writing. :) >>> >>> Once we are sure we're in as a mentoring organization, there is a >>> window until 29 March when student applications open. This is a prime >>> time for generating publicity to target audiences: >>> >>> * Educators who can inform their students; >>> * Students to work up quality proposals; >>> * Existing community members to consider being a student in the >>> program; >>> * Existing community sub-projects who work with mentors; >>> * Industry and other mentoring organizatiokns to notice what and how >>> we're doing things while they are still happening. >>> >>> Having the 5-year report I did end of last year[1] is also good >>> material to point at. >>> >>> By focusing on the essential audiences, I can see this being useful to >>> the Fedora and JBoss efforts, all while demonstrating trusted open >>> source leadership in action. >>> >>> - Karsten >>> >>> [1] My post and the report, which was derived from an internal report: >>> >>> http://iquaid.org/2009/11/04/summer-coding-benefits-to-fedora-project-and-j… >>> >>> >>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GSoC_report_2009 >>> >> >

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GSoC 2010 crossdump
by Karsten Wade 24 Feb '10

24 Feb '10

For the next $short_period_of_time I am going to swap a project duty with Mel Chua <mechua(a)redhat.com>. She is going to take up the GSoC 2010 work I've been stalling on a bit, although we had a nice breakthrough at the Fedora Activity Day last week. (I'll be running with Fedora Insight deployment in exchange.) Here are the log details. Any questions should be done on summer-coding@ list. Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-gsoc/2010-02-22/fedora-gsoc.2010-02… Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-gsoc/2010-02-22/fedora-gsoc.2010-02… Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-gsoc/2010-02-22/fedora-gsoc.2010-02… cheers - Karsten -- name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener team: Red Hat Community Architecture uri: http://TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki gpg: AD0E0C41

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GSoC Fedora Activity Day @SCALE 8x - 19 Feb Friday
by Karsten Wade 11 Feb '10

11 Feb '10

Next Friday at SCALE 8x in Los Angeles I'll lead a Fedora Activity Day (FAD) on getting ready for GSoC 2010. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SCALE_8x_2010_FAD A FAD is a concentrated day or more of work effort where two or more contributors get together to get something done. In our case, we're going to work on process, how-to content, finding and solving mentor sub-project problems, publicity, etc. As with all others, this FAD is sponsored by the Fedora Ambassadors. In preparation I'm working on these pages: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GSoC_2010 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_SIG Let's talk about what you think could be done at the FAD. We'll have about 8 hours of activity with an average of 3 persons active at all times. More if they show up, but that's the guaranteed core to start. Ideas? I'm also beginning publicity for the FAD as well as our GSoC 2010 effort over-all. There has been a SCALE update with details about the FAD, and we have a mention with similar details in a press release from Red Hat about SCALE. - Karsten -- name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener team: Red Hat Community Architecture uri: http://TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki gpg: AD0E0C41

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GSoC payment for 2009 in limbo
by Karsten Wade 10 Feb '10

10 Feb '10

We just got word from Google that last years mentor organization payments were not paid out to Fedora/JBoss. (I haven't been watching the lists and missed the other discussion.) There is now less than a week to give them someone to pay. I'm unclear what to do ... ideas? - Karsten -- name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener team: Red Hat Community Architecture uri: http://quaid.fedorapeople.org gpg: AD0E0C41

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