Summer of Code?

[John W. Eaton]

On 21-Feb-2007, Søren Hauberg wrote:

|    Between March 5-12 it is possible to apply as a mentoring 
| organization for the Google Summer of Code (SoC). To those that doesn't 
| know, the SoC is a project where Google will pay students to work on 
| various Free Software projects.
|    Should Octave be applying to become a mentoring organization this 
| year? It might be a good way to get people involved in Octave, but it 
| also just might end up being a waste of time.

Is Octave an organization?  :-)

Ultimately, someone has to serve as a mentor.  If someone here wants
to do that, then I think it would be fine.  I would like to know
something about the target projects, but I don't think I would be able
to be involved much more than that.

jwe