[Soc-coordination] Google Code-In kick start

[Obey Arthur Liu]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 2:20 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli <leader at debian.org>wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 11:18:02AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> > TL;DR: I'm looking for volunteers that will act as Debian Project
> > liaisons (or "admins") for the Google Code In initiative [1]. Deadline
> > for project applications is November 1st; we'll miss it unless we have
> > the volunteers before that date. Feel free to volunteer either on
> > -project or by mailing me at leader at d.o.
>
> We've got four volunteers for the task (all Cc:-ed):
>
> - Gergely Nagy
> - Sukhbir Singh
> - Bastian Blank
> - Laszlo Boszorme
>
> I'm just doing the introductions here, as I don't have much of
> experience myself with GCI. I suggest using this list for coordination
> of Debian participation in GCI, as we did in the past.
>
> It'd be great if you people could get in touch with Debian's admin of
> GCI past year, to learn from past experience. IIRC, the admins back then
> were Ana and Arthur (both Cc:-ed), while Sylvestre kicked-in later on
> for GSOC.
>
> As a complete outsider, I think we should ensure that we get a Debian
> press release / news item out of this to call for student applications
> when the student application period will start.
>
> Also, as I mentioned in the call for volunteers, I think Debian needs a
> general list of "easy hacks" to advertise permanently, even outside GCI:
> it is a great way to attract new people in a Free Software project. It'd
> be great if, as a side-effect of GCI participation this year, we will
> manage to establish social and technical mechanisms to maintain and
> advertise such a list.
>
> Good luck!
> Cheers.
>
> Hi all,

I am willing to "take the lead" in terms of navigating the GCI-specific
processes and paperwork so that others can focus on the task creation and
rating and other interruption-driven stuff, which as everyone must have
understood by now, is quite a lot of sustained work. Are you motivated? :)

-Arthur
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