Summer of Code?

[John W. Eaton]

On 15-Mar-2007, John W. Eaton wrote:

| 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.

Oops, I just noticed the dates in your message (I guess I should read
before replying) so I guess the deadline has passed.  But anyway, my
earlier comments will likely apply to future summers of code (assuming
there are more).

jwe