Re: [Fontforge-devel] GSoC It To Em

[Dave C. <da...@la...>]

Hi

Reading the docs, Nate are you suggesting you would be the admin? If so I
would be happy to be the backup admin.

Cheers
Dave
On Feb 18, 2013 6:41 PM, "Nathan Willis" <nw...@gl...> wrote:

> In case you don't have your finger on the pulse of the calendar, Google
> Summer Of Code IX is nearly upon us.
>
> So I was wondering, do we have any intrepid Fontforge coders who might be
> interested in serving as a mentor to a GSoC student?
>
> Because that's really the first question; if we do have potential mentors,
> then we could talk about whether we have potential projects.  In my
> experience, many of the successful projects in other FOSS programs are kind
> of self-contained things, so that would be something like an additional
> feature, or something that could be implemented as a scripting add-on,
> rather than, say, refactoring the core and adding a Scheme interpreter.
> But that's not this step anyway.  Even if we got that far, there are still
> other steps, like getting accepted by Google and then actually getting a
> willing student.
>
> Just wondering if anyone would be up for mentoring in the event that such
> an opportunity arises.  I don't think you get paid for it, except of course
> in the high esteem of your less-adventurous peers.  The GSoC office does
> have a wiki site with some more detail on how all the pieces fit together;
> starting here:
> http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/AdviceforMentors
>
> There are hard deadlines coming up, so if anyone would be interested,
> probably ought to speak up....
>
> Nate
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