From 5faa67b849daef9a06d552d3dc9230937dd231a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gabor Pali Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 17:31:45 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] - Add 2014Q1 status report for GSoC Submitted by: gavin --- .../news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml | 68 ++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 67 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml index e3d71ba47c..fc724fd3a8 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@

Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This - report contains 40 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.

+ report contains 41 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.

The deadline for submissions covering between April and June 2014 is July 7th, 2014.

@@ -2652,4 +2652,70 @@ device vt_efifb Support for other architectures (ARM, MIPS, PPC). + + + &os; Participating in Summer of Code 2014 + + + + + Gavin + Atkinson + + gavin@FreeBSD.org + + + + + Glen + Barber + + gjb@FreeBSD.org + + + + + Wojciech + Koszek + + wkoszek@FreeBSD.org + + + + + + + + + +

&os; is pleased to have been accepted as a participating + organization in Google's Summer of Code 2014. This will be the + tenth time we have participated in the program, having been + selected to participate every year since its introduction.

+ +

This year, the administrators made a special attempt to spread + the word about Summer of Code around Universities, including + making contact with around 350 mainly Polish, British, African + and American universities to advertise the Summer of Code + program, with a particular focus on &os;'s participation. We + made contact with both technical departments and student + societies. Posters were produced in several languages, and &os; + committers and users were encouraged to distribute these posters + around their local universities.

+ +

&os; received a total of 39 proposals from students, and were + subsequently granted 15 slots from Google. We are now facing + the unpleasant challenge of trying to decide which of the 39 + proposals to select, taking into account the quality, + desirability and feasibility of each proposal, as well as + ensuring we will be able to provide an excellent mentoring + experience to each selected student. All mentors have + volunteered to mentor, and we pair students with mentors + primarily based on the prospective mentor's areas of expertise, + interest in the project, also taking into account the desire to + pair students up with mentors in similar timezones in order to + improve the student experience. The final list of accepted + students is expected to be announced on the 21st April.

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