Google Summer of Code 2014

As some of you know, a number of us took part in the Google Summer of
Code in 2013 under the umbrella of the W3C last year. I've submitted the
Web Payments Community Group for Google Summer of Code 2014. If we're
selected, Google will help pay for a student to join our project and
contribute documentation, code, etc. with the goal of
having that person join the community and contribute long term.

It's a great opportunity for students that want to get involved in
standards creation. It's also a good opportunity for us to get someone
to work on the things that this group currently doesn't have the
bandwidth to work on. More about Google Summer of Code here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_summer_of_code

Part of this process is providing the students with a list of projects
that this group would be interested in having them take on. The project
ideas page has been started. For those of you that have ideas for
the students, please add them to this wiki:

https://www.w3.org/community/webpayments/wiki/GSoC2014ProjectIdeas

The page above really needs some love over the next week, so we'll be
hacking on it from time to time - it'll get better. I wanted to get this
announcement out there earlier than later since the application window
for organizations is only open for a short time. Our application is due
by this coming Friday (Feb 14th). If anyone objects to this group
applying for the Google Summer of Code, please let us know before that date.

We have three volunteer mentors so far for GSoC 2014 from this group.
They are Dave Longley, Dave Lehn, and myself. If anyone else would like
to volunteer to mentor a student (along with help from the other
mentors) please let us know. The mentors that have volunteered for this
year have mentored GSoC students before, so don't worry about having to
take on all mentoring responsibilities, they will be shared with
seasoned GSoC veterans.

So, let us know if you want to be a mentor. If you have a project idea,
add it to the wiki above.

-- manu

-- 
Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny)
Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
blog: The Worlds First Web Payments Workshop
http://www.w3.org/2013/10/payments/

Received on Saturday, 8 February 2014 23:11:48 UTC