Hi all,
so Google just announced[0] that they're running their Summer of Code program again. I'm preparing to be the project admin this year, but to make this real we'll need contributors that are willing to step up as mentors. I need to know the number of candidates by Feb 19th, and we're told by end of February if we participate in the program this year.
If so, students will apply in March and we'll try to find mentors for them (ideally two per student).
We expect mentors to help students get comfortable in the community and to support them with their project. The "active" time for students (and thus also mentors) begins late April with the "community bonding period" and ends late August with the end of the "coding" phase of the program. Mentors should be available for their students in that time frame, although one reason for planning for two mentors per students is to allow for vacation and the like.
If you're still interested in mentoring, please tell me so I can update the number of mentor candidates (which I need to state in the project's application to GSoC).
If you have ideas that are possible to work through with ~3 months of effort by a new contributor, please add them to our project ideas wiki page[1] (that I still need to clean up a bit).
Thanks, Patrick
[0] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/ [1] https://www.coreboot.org/Project_Ideas