Google Summer of Code 2019.

[Pulkit Goyal]

Thanks Sangeet and Sushil for stepping up and offering to help. It's great
to see a kind of culture being developed where old summer of code students
mentor new ones.

On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 12:14 AM Sushil Khanchi <sushilkhanchi97 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As I was Google Summer of Code student last year I know how much important
> it is for a student to have a mentor who will review the patches or provide
> pointer to the right person for a particular topic. I would love to work
> with a student and happy to see a new contributor in mercurial community.
> If there is a project where I can be a part of mentoring, I am very much
> interested to have that opportunity.
>
> Thanks
> Sushil
>
> On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 9:24 PM Pulkit Goyal <7895pulkit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> I hope you're doing well.
>>
>> We missed the initial deadline for application to PSF for Google Summer
>> of Code. Don't be scared, things are fine. Once google announces the list
>> of organizations, PSF can accept more sub-orgs. Google will announce list
>> of orgs on 26th Feb.
>>
>> So let's get ourselves prepared till then. I am happy to manage things
>> for us this year too. But if someone else wants to take up, I am happy to
>> share the load.
>>
>> That said, we need project ideas and mentors.
>>
>> The coding period is of roughly three months. Hence project should not be
>> very small. Projects can be big and we can put initial part of that in
>> summer of code and if student wants to continue contributing, they can
>> maybe complete that.
>> In past years, we had project ideas like python3-porting, releasenotes
>> extension, improvement to largefiles, improving grep etc.
>> If you have any such project idea, please reply to this email. Good
>> project ideas will help us get more applications.
>>
>> We also need people to mentor. Quoting from summer of code webiste:
>>
>> Mentors are people from the community who volunteer to work with a
>> student. Mentors provide guidance such as pointers to useful documentation,
>> code reviews, etc. In addition to providing students with feedback and
>> pointers, a mentor acts as an ambassador to help student contributors
>> integrate into their project’s community.
>>
>> If you are willing to mentor, please reply to this email.
>>
>> Thanks and regards
>> Pulkit
>>
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