Apache Software Foundation accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2012

Hey Sally,

A prompt note saying that we've been accepted and that this is a great opportunity for us with
pointers to our ideas list and ***@community for further questions would be nice.

Thanks,

Uli

Thanks, Uli. That's great news!
I'll definitely run anything formal by you, as well as a heads-up that I'll be sending any tweets
out, for example the GSoC application dates, as I'll point to the relevant Apache resources.
For this week, is there anything that you need from us? Anything urgent?
Cheers,
Sally
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*Sent:* Saturday, 17 March 2012, 18:21
*Subject:* Apache Software Foundation accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer
of Code 2012
Hey Sally & Co.,
this year we won't forget to provide you with some infos on our GSoC endeavours. Yesterday, we
have
been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2012 [1],[2]. This means that
over the summer, our committers will mentor students that are sponsored by Google and will be
working on our projects. The program helps us not only to get some code written but also to
introduce students into open source development and hopefully recruit some new long-term
committers.
More information on the program is available at [3]. Students are now encouraged to discuss ideas
with the respective projects and begin drafting proposals. An extensive list of already existing
project ideas is available at [4]. The actual application phase is from 03/26 until 04/06, Coding
will take place from 05/21 to 08/20. See [5] for the detailed timeline.
Thanks,
Uli
[1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2012
[2] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2012/apache
[3] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2012/faqs
[4] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2012tasks
[5] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2012

Sally Khudairi

2012-03-18 11:01:26 UTC

Thanks, Uli.
Perhaps this is best presented as a blog post, from which we can publicize/tweet, etc.
Do you --or any of the ComDev folks-- have Roller editing access for blogs.apache.org? Has anything been sent to announce-1oDqGaOF3Lkdnm+***@public.gmane.org in the past?
If not, that's OK, I can help with getting the word out, but suggest you consider doing so for easy status updates, etc.
Chat soon!
-Sally
[from the mobile; pls pardon spacing/spelling errors]
-----Original Message-----
From: Ulrich Stärk
Sent: 18/03/2012, 3:39 AM
To: Sally Khudairi
Cc: press-1oDqGaOF3Lkdnm+***@public.gmane.org; dev-/6JGXy0y6WP1N9kud6OZbmD2FQJk+8+***@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Apache Software Foundation accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2012

Hey Sally,

A prompt note saying that we've been accepted and that this is a great opportunity for us with
pointers to our ideas list and ***@community for further questions would be nice.

Thanks,

Uli

Ulrich Stärk

2012-03-18 12:01:14 UTC

Thanks, Uli.
Perhaps this is best presented as a blog post, from which we can publicize/tweet, etc.

Do you --or any of the ComDev folks-- have Roller editing access for
blogs.apache.org?

I don't, I don't know about other ComDev members.

past?

Not that I know. Ross, Noirin, any of the other past GSoC admins?

If not, that's OK, I can help with getting the word out, but suggest you
consider doing so for easy status updates, etc.
Chat soon!
-Sally
[from the mobile; pls pardon spacing/spelling errors]
-----Original Message-----
From: Ulrich Stärk
Sent: 18/03/2012, 3:39 AM
To: Sally Khudairi
Subject: Re: Apache Software Foundation accepted as a mentoring
organization for Google Summer of Code 2012
Hey Sally,
A prompt note saying that we've been accepted and that this is a great
opportunity for us with
Thanks,
Uli

Thanks, Uli. That's great news!
I'll definitely run anything formal by you, as well as a heads-up that
I'll be sending any tweets
out, for example the GSoC application dates, as I'll point to the
relevant Apache resources.
For this week, is there anything that you need from us? Anything urgent?
Cheers,
Sally
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*Sent:* Saturday, 17 March 2012, 18:21
*Subject:* Apache Software Foundation accepted as a mentoring
organization for Google Summer
of Code 2012
Hey Sally & Co.,
this year we won't forget to provide you with some infos on our GSoC
endeavours. Yesterday, we
have
been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code
2012 [1],[2]. This means that
over the summer, our committers will mentor students that are
sponsored by Google and will be
working on our projects. The program helps us not only to get some
code written but also to
introduce students into open source development and hopefully
recruit some new long-term
committers.
More information on the program is available at [3]. Students are
now encouraged to discuss ideas
with the respective projects and begin drafting proposals. An
extensive list of already existing
project ideas is available at [4]. The actual application phase is
from 03/26 until 04/06, Coding
will take place from 05/21 to 08/20. See [5] for the detailed timeline.
Can you please run any press release past us
Thanks,
Uli
[1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2012
[2] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2012/apache
[3]
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2012/faqs
[4] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2012tasks
[5] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2012

Nóirín Pluincéid

2012-03-18 21:41:25 UTC

past?

Not that I know. Ross, Noirin, any of the other past GSoC admins?

AFAIR, no. I think at the moment committers@ is more appropriate, but
once student applications open, announce@ might be worth hitting.

Noirin

Ulrich Stärk

2012-03-18 21:48:51 UTC

past?

Not that I know. Ross, Noirin, any of the other past GSoC admins?

Noirin

The idea is to make students aware of our projects so announce@ is more appropriate IMO.

Uli

Bertrand Delacretaz

2012-03-19 08:09:42 UTC

On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Sally Khudairi

...Do you --or any of the ComDev folks-- have Roller editing access for blogs.apache.org?...

Several comdev PPMC members have authoring rights on
http://blogs.apache.org/comdev, if more need that just ask.

-Bertrand

Ulrich Stärk

2012-03-19 11:45:25 UTC

*ASK*. Roller account id is uli. I'll draft something up with Sally than.

Uli

Post by Bertrand Delacretaz
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Sally Khudairi

...Do you --or any of the ComDev folks-- have Roller editing access for blogs.apache.org?...

Several comdev PPMC members have authoring rights on
http://blogs.apache.org/comdev, if more need that just ask.
-Bertrand

Bertrand Delacretaz

2012-03-19 12:37:24 UTC

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
*ASK*. Roller account id is uli. I'll draft something up with Sally than.

User uli should now have author rights on https://blogs.apache.org/comdev

-Bertrand

Ulrich Stärk

2012-03-19 13:35:07 UTC

Sally,

I drafted a blog post on the comdev blog and invited you to work on that draft with me. Getting the
word out is the most important thing right now. Student application starts next week and we want to
have as much coverage as possible until then.

Cheers,

Uli

Thanks, Uli.
Perhaps this is best presented as a blog post, from which we can publicize/tweet, etc.
If not, that's OK, I can help with getting the word out, but suggest you consider doing so for easy status updates, etc.
Chat soon!
-Sally
[from the mobile; pls pardon spacing/spelling errors]
-----Original Message-----
From: Ulrich Stärk
Sent: 18/03/2012, 3:39 AM
To: Sally Khudairi
Subject: Re: Apache Software Foundation accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2012
Hey Sally,
A prompt note saying that we've been accepted and that this is a great opportunity for us with
Thanks,
Uli

Sally Khudairi

2012-03-19 13:41:51 UTC

Thanks so much, Uli.
I'll get on this later today.
Chat soon!
-Sally
[from the mobile; pls pardon spacing/spelling errors]
-----Original Message-----
From: Ulrich Stärk
Sent: 19/03/2012, 9:35 AM
To: Sally Khudairi; Sally Khudairi
Cc: dev-/6JGXy0y6WP1N9kud6OZbmD2FQJk+8+***@public.gmane.org; press-1oDqGaOF3Lkdnm+***@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Apache Software Foundation accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2012

Sally,

I drafted a blog post on the comdev blog and invited you to work on that draft with me. Getting the
word out is the most important thing right now. Student application starts next week and we want to
have as much coverage as possible until then.

Cheers,

Uli

Ulrich Stärk

2013-04-09 12:11:25 UTC

Recycling last years email on the topic. All dates and links updated. It would be cool if we could
get this out asap. Is there anything else you need?

Uli

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Apache Software Foundation accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2012
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:21:40 +0100
From: Ulrich Stärk <uli-mNVplorSnf+***@public.gmane.org>
To: press-1oDqGaOF3Lkdnm+***@public.gmane.org
CC: dev-/6JGXy0y6WP1N9kud6OZbmD2FQJk+8+***@public.gmane.org

Hey Sally & Co.,

this year we won't forget to provide you with some infos on our GSoC endeavours. Yesterday, we have
been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013 [1],[2]. This means that
over the summer, our committers will mentor students that are sponsored by Google and will be
working on our projects. The program helps us not only to get some code written but also to
introduce students into open source development and hopefully recruit some new long-term committers.
More information on the program is available at [3]. Students are now encouraged to discuss ideas
with the respective projects and begin drafting proposals. An extensive list of already existing
project ideas is available at [4]. The actual application phase is from April 24 until May 3, coding
will take place from June 17 to September 23. See [5] for the detailed timeline.

Can you please run any press release past us (dev-/6JGXy0y6WP1N9kud6OZbmD2FQJk+8+***@public.gmane.org) before publishing?

Thanks,

Uli

[1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013
[2] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/apache
[3] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2013/help_page
[4] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2013ideas
[5] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2013

Sally Khudairi

2013-04-09 12:15:15 UTC

________________________________
Sent: Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 8:11
Subject: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013
Recycling last years email on the topic. All dates and links updated. It would be cool if we could
get this out asap. Is there anything else you need?
Uli
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Apache Software Foundation accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2012
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:21:40 +0100
Hey Sally & Co.,
this year we won't forget to provide you with some infos on our GSoC endeavours. Yesterday, we have
been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013 [1],[2]. This means that
over the summer, our committers will mentor students that are sponsored by Google and will be
working on our projects. The program helps us not only to get some code written but also to
introduce students into open source development and hopefully recruit some new long-term committers.
More information on the program is available at [3]. Students are now encouraged to discuss ideas
with the respective projects and begin drafting proposals. An extensive list of already existing
project ideas is available at [4]. The actual application phase is from April 24 until May 3, coding
will take place from June 17 to September 23. See [5] for the detailed timeline.
Thanks,
Uli
[1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013
[2] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/apache
[3] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2013/help_page
[4] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2013ideas
[5] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2013

Ulrich Stärk

2013-04-09 12:17:37 UTC

The sooner the better but I think tomorrow will be fine.

Uli

Thanks, Uli.
I'll get on it. I have two press releases going out this morning, which creates a news logjam from a
media standpoint.
Are you OK with this going out tomorrow? If not, I'll get cracking on this after our 9AM ET release
goes out.
Cheers,
Sally
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*Sent:* Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 8:11
*Subject:* ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013
Recycling last years email on the topic. All dates and links updated. It would be cool if we could
get this out asap. Is there anything else you need?
Uli
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Apache Software Foundation accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of
Code 2012
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:21:40 +0100
Hey Sally & Co.,
this year we won't forget to provide you with some infos on our GSoC endeavours. Yesterday, we have
been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013 [1],[2]. This means that
over the summer, our committers will mentor students that are sponsored by Google and will be
working on our projects. The program helps us not only to get some code written but also to
introduce students into open source development and hopefully recruit some new long-term committers.
More information on the program is available at [3]. Students are now encouraged to discuss ideas
with the respective projects and begin drafting proposals. An extensive list of already existing
project ideas is available at [4]. The actual application phase is from April 24 until May 3, coding
will take place from June 17 to September 23. See [5] for the detailed timeline.
Thanks,
Uli
[1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013
[2] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/apache
[3] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2013/help_page
[4] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2013ideas
[5] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2013

Ulrich Stärk

2013-04-09 12:27:52 UTC

Sorry. I didn't know that there was a difference between press release and announcement.

Of course. If you think that a press release won't reach our intended audience, then skip it. The
urgency is due to the fact that the application phase will start in two weeks and I'd like to spread
the word as early as possible.

Cheers,

Uli

Uli --help me understand the urgency. A press release doesn't necessarily reach (y)our intended
audience --participants.
I will write an announcement, put it out over the newswire, post it on the ASF Foundation Blog,
Of course, I will get the draft over to you (ComDev) for review prior to issuing. I'd love a quote
from the ComDev chair. Will Luciano be able to do this? If not, we can go without it...not required,
but nice to have.
Thanks,
Sally
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*Sent:* Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 8:17
*Subject:* Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013
The sooner the better but I think tomorrow will be fine.
Uli

Thanks, Uli.
I'll get on it. I have two press releases going out this morning, which creates a news logjam

from a

media standpoint.
Are you OK with this going out tomorrow? If not, I'll get cracking on this after our 9AM ET

release

goes out.
Cheers,
Sally

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

*Sent:* Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 8:11
*Subject:* ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013
Recycling last years email on the topic. All dates and links updated. It would be cool if

we could

get this out asap. Is there anything else you need?
Uli
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Apache Software Foundation accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of
Code 2012
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:21:40 +0100
Hey Sally & Co.,
this year we won't forget to provide you with some infos on our GSoC endeavours. Yesterday,

we have

been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013 [1],[2]. This

means that

over the summer, our committers will mentor students that are sponsored by Google and will be
working on our projects. The program helps us not only to get some code written but also to
introduce students into open source development and hopefully recruit some new long-term

committers.

More information on the program is available at [3]. Students are now encouraged to discuss

ideas

with the respective projects and begin drafting proposals. An extensive list of already

existing

project ideas is available at [4]. The actual application phase is from April 24 until May

3, coding

will take place from June 17 to September 23. See [5] for the detailed timeline.
Thanks,
Uli
[1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013
[2] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/apache
[3] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2013/help_page
[4] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2013ideas
[5] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2013

Sally Khudairi

2013-04-09 12:21:08 UTC

Uli --help me understand the urgency. A press release doesn't necessarily reach (y)our intended audience --participants.

I will write an announcement, put it out over the newswire, post it on the ASF Foundation Blog, Tweet about it, send it to announce@ and our press/analyst list, and post it on the apache.org homepage.

Of course, I will get the draft over to you (ComDev) for review prior to issuing. I'd love a quote from the ComDev chair. Will Luciano be able to do this? If not, we can go without it...not required, but nice to have.

Thanks,
Sally

________________________________
Sent: Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 8:17
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013
The sooner the better but I think tomorrow will be fine.
Uli

Sally Khudairi

2013-04-09 12:42:21 UTC

Thanks, Lars.

Yes, I will write the blog posts, et. al. It won't hurt us to issue it over the newswire service. Once Uli clarified this, the type of announcement (format) became clearer to me.

I still have to get the thing written, so I'll be getting cracking soon. The Struts EOL announcement goes out in 20 minutes.

Cheers,
Sally

________________________________
Sent: Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 8:35
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013
Hi,
have we ever done a press release about GSoC before?
I'm just wondering why this needs to be a press release instead of just
posting it on our blog, twitter account, announce lists?
cheers
Lars

Post by Sally Khudairi
Uli --help me understand the urgency. A press release doesn't necessarily reach (y)our intended audience --participants.
Of course, I will get the draft over to you (ComDev) for review prior to issuing. I'd love a quote from the ComDev chair. Will Luciano be able to do this? If not, we can go without it...not required, but nice to have.
Thanks,
Sally

Thanks, Uli.
I'll get on it. I have two press releases going out this morning, which creates a news logjam from a
media standpoint.
Are you OK with this going out tomorrow? If not, I'll get cracking on this after our 9AM ET release
goes out.
Cheers,
Sally
   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   *Sent:* Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 8:11
   *Subject:* ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013
   Recycling last years email on the topic. All dates and links updated. It would be cool if we could
   get this out asap. Is there anything else you need?
   Uli
   -------- Original Message --------
   Subject: Apache Software Foundation accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of
   Code 2012
   Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:21:40 +0100
   Hey Sally & Co.,
   this year we won't forget to provide you with some infos on our GSoC endeavours. Yesterday, we have
   been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013 [1],[2]. This means that
   over the summer, our committers will mentor students that are sponsored by Google and will be
   working on our projects. The program helps us not only to get some code written but also to
   introduce students into open source development and hopefully recruit some new long-term committers.
   More information on the program is available at [3]. Students are now encouraged to discuss ideas
   with the respective projects and begin drafting proposals. An extensive list of already existing
   project ideas is available at [4]. The actual application phase is from April 24 until May 3, coding
   will take place from June 17 to September 23. See [5] for the detailed timeline.
   Thanks,
   Uli
   [1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013
   [2] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/apache
   [3] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2013/help_page
   [4] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2013ideas
   [5] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2013

--
Lars Eilebrecht

Sally Khudairi

2013-04-09 12:16:16 UTC

One more thing: do we have a list of Apache projects that will be involved here?

Thanks,
Sally

Ulrich Stärk

2013-04-09 12:20:18 UTC

Any project can be involved. The ones listed at [4] have explicitly submitted ideas for students but
that doesn't mean students can't approach projects not mentioned there. I'll compile a list from [4]
for you.

Uli

Post by Sally Khudairi
One more thing: do we have a list of Apache projects that will be involved here?
Thanks,
Sally
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*Sent:* Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 8:11
*Subject:* ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013
Recycling last years email on the topic. All dates and links updated. It would be cool if we could
get this out asap. Is there anything else you need?
Uli
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Apache Software Foundation accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of
Code 2012
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:21:40 +0100
Hey Sally & Co.,
this year we won't forget to provide you with some infos on our GSoC endeavours. Yesterday, we have
been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013 [1],[2]. This means that
over the summer, our committers will mentor students that are sponsored by Google and will be
working on our projects. The program helps us not only to get some code written but also to
introduce students into open source development and hopefully recruit some new long-term committers.
More information on the program is available at [3]. Students are now encouraged to discuss ideas
with the respective projects and begin drafting proposals. An extensive list of already existing
project ideas is available at [4]. The actual application phase is from April 24 until May 3, coding
will take place from June 17 to September 23. See [5] for the detailed timeline.
Thanks,
Uli
[1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013
[2] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/apache
[3] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2013/help_page
[4] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2013ideas
[5] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2013

Ulrich Stärk

2013-04-09 12:36:05 UTC

Here's your list:

Accumulo, Airavata, Axiom, Bloodhound, CloudStack, Lenya, OpenOffice, ManifoldCF, CouchDB, Crunch,
Giraph, Gora, Hama, Hive, Isis, Jena, Lucene, Mahout, Mesos, Nutch, Ode, Openmeetings, Pig, Rat,
SIS, Sling, Solr, Stanbol, Tika, VXQuery, Wookie, XalanJ, XercesJ

It isn't exclusive, these are simply the projects that have submitted project ideas. Every student
is free to approach any project and propose an idea (which is also highly encouraged).

Cheers,

Uli

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
Any project can be involved. The ones listed at [4] have explicitly submitted ideas for students but
that doesn't mean students can't approach projects not mentioned there. I'll compile a list from [4]
for you.
Uli

Sally Khudairi

2013-04-09 12:42:37 UTC

Perfect. Thank you, Uli!

________________________________
Sent: Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 8:36
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013
Accumulo, Airavata, Axiom, Bloodhound, CloudStack, Lenya, OpenOffice, ManifoldCF, CouchDB, Crunch,
Giraph, Gora, Hama, Hive, Isis, Jena, Lucene, Mahout, Mesos, Nutch, Ode, Openmeetings, Pig, Rat,
SIS, Sling, Solr, Stanbol, Tika, VXQuery, Wookie, XalanJ, XercesJ
It isn't exclusive, these are simply the projects that have submitted project ideas. Every student
is free to approach any project and propose an idea (which is also highly encouraged).
Cheers,
Uli

Post by Sally Khudairi
One more thing: do we have a list of Apache projects that will be involved here?
Thanks,
Sally

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*Sent:* Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 8:11
*Subject:* ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013
Recycling last years email on the topic. All dates and links updated. It would be cool if we could
get this out asap. Is there anything else you need?
Uli
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Apache Software Foundation accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of
Code 2012
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:21:40 +0100
Hey Sally & Co.,
this year we won't forget to provide you with some infos on our GSoC endeavours. Yesterday, we have
been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013 [1],[2]. This means that
over the summer, our committers will mentor students that are sponsored by Google and will be
working on our projects. The program helps us not only to get some code written but also to
introduce students into open source development and hopefully recruit some new long-term committers.
More information on the program is available at [3]. Students are now encouraged to discuss ideas
with the respective projects and begin drafting proposals. An extensive list of already existing
project ideas is available at [4]. The actual application phase is from April 24 until May 3, coding
will take place from June 17 to September 23. See [5] for the detailed timeline.
Thanks,
Uli
[1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013
[2] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/apache
[3] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2013/help_page
[4] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2013ideas
[5] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2013

Sally Khudairi

2013-04-09 14:14:57 UTC

Hi everyone --I've drafted up an announcement that I can send out by 12 Noon ET today, if not sooner.

Please review the draft below and forward any corrections/additions no later than 11.15AM ET.

Thanks for this,
Sally

...also, we need to updateÂ http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html :^)

= = =Â

The Apache Software Foundation Community Development Project Welcomes Student Proposals for Google Summer of Code 2013

Hundreds of students mentored in âThe Apache Wayâ of Open Source community leadership

Forest Hill, MD â9 April 2013â The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)'s Community Development (ComDev) project today announced its acceptance into the Google Summer of Code (GsoC) as a mentoring organization for the eighth consecutive year.

The ComDev team helps newcomers learn about the ASF's projects, governance, and activities, and guides them in becoming part of the meritocratic, all-volunteer Apache community.

Established in 2005, the Google Summer of Code offers student developers from around the word stipends to write code for various Open Source software projects over a three month period.Â

The ASF has actively participated in GSoC since the program's inception, mentoring 30-45 students each year, and providing exposure to real-world software and community development âThe Apache Wayâ.

Countless GSoC students mentored by the Apache community continue to be long-term code committers on a variety of Apache projects. Some active program participants have even been elected as members of the ASF.
Â Â
This year, dozens of Apache projects have committed to mentoring GSoC students. They include Accumulo, Airavata, Axiom, Bloodhound, CloudStack, CouchDB, Crunch, Giraph, Gora, Hama, Hive, Isis, Jena, Lenya, Lucene, Mahout, ManifoldCF, Mesos, Nutch, ODE, OpenMeetings, OpenOffice, Pig, Rat, SIS, Sling, Solr, Stanbol, Tika, VXQuery, Wookie, XalanJ, and XercesJ.Â

The ComDev team invite GSoC students to propose application ideas directly with all Apache project(s) of interest no later than Sunday, 21 April 2013. The ASF's more than 100 Top-Level Projects and nearly three dozen initiatives in the Apache Incubator are listed at Â http://www.apache.org/ and http://incubator.apache.org/ respectively.

For more information on Apache Community Development and to get involved with Apache projects for GSoC, visit http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html

Details on the Google Summer of Code is available at http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013

About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees nearly one hundred fifty leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server â the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way", more than 400 individual Members and 3,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(3)(c) not-for-profit charity, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including AMD, Basis Technology, Citrix, Cloudera, Facebook, Go Daddy, Google, HP, Hortonworks, Huawei, IBM, InMotion Hosting, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, PSW Group, SpringSource/VMware,
WANdisco, and Yahoo!. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/ or follow @TheASF on Twitter.

"Apache", "Accumulo", "Apache Accumulo", "Airavata", "Apache Airavata", "Axiom", "Apache Axiom", "Bloodhound", "Apache Bloodhound", "CloudStack", "Apache CloudStack", "CouchDB", "Apache CouchDB", "Crunch", "Apache Crunch", "Giraph", "Apache Giraph", "Gora", "Apache Gora", "Hama", "Apache Hama", "Hive", "Apache Hive", "Isis", "Apache Isis", "Jena", "Apache Jena", "Lenya", "Apache Lenya", "Lucene", "Apache Lucene", "Mahout", "Apache Mahout", "ManifoldCF", "Apache ManifoldCF", "Mesos", "Apache Mesos", "Nutch", "Apache Nutch", "ODE", "Apache ODE", "OpenMeetings", "Apache OpenMeetings", "OpenOffice", "Apache OpenOffice", "Pig", "Apache Pig", "Rat", "Apache Rat", "SIS", "Apache SIS", "Sling", "Apache Sling", "Solr", "Apache Solr", "Stanbol", "Apache Stanbol", "Tika", "Apache Tika", "VXQuery", "Apache VXQuery", Â "Wookie", "Apache Wookie", "XalanJ", "Apache XalanJ", "XercesJ", "Apache XercesJ", Â and "ApacheCon" are registered trademarks or trademarks of the
Apache Software Foundation in the United States and/or other countries. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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Contact:
Sally Khudairi
Vice President
The Apache Software Foundation
press-1oDqGaOF3Lkdnm+***@public.gmane.org
+1 617 921 8656

________________________________
Sent: Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 8:42
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013
Perfect. Thank you, Uli!
Â

Post by Sally Khudairi
One more thing: do we have a list of Apache projects that will be involved here?
Thanks,
Sally
Â
Â Â ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Â Â *Cc:*
Â Â *Sent:* Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 8:11
Â Â *Subject:* ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013
Â Â Recycling last years email on the topic. All dates and links updated. It would be cool if we could
Â Â get this out asap. Is there anything else you need?
Â Â Uli
Â Â -------- Original Message --------
Â Â Subject: Apache Software Foundation accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of
Â Â Code

2012

Post by Sally Khudairi
Â Â Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:21:40 +0100
Â Â Hey Sally & Co.,
Â Â this year we won't forget to provide you with some infos on our GSoC endeavours. Yesterday, we have
Â Â been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013 [1],[2]. This

means that

Post by Sally Khudairi
Â Â over the summer, our committers will mentor students that are sponsored by Google and will be
Â Â working on our projects. The program helps us not only to get some code written but also to
Â Â introduce students into open source development and hopefully recruit some new long-term committers.
Â Â More information on the program is available at [3]. Students are now encouraged to discuss ideas
Â Â with the respective projects and begin drafting proposals. An extensive list of already existing
Â Â project ideas is available at [4]. The actual application phase is from April 24 until May 3, coding
Â Â will take place from June 17 to September 23. See [5] for the detailed timeline.
Â Â Thanks,
Â Â Uli
Â Â [1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013
Â Â [2] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/apache
Â Â [3] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2013/help_page
Â Â [4] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2013ideas
Â Â [5] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2013

Ulrich Stärk

2013-04-09 14:42:22 UTC

Looks fine to me except for two small things.

Comments inline.

Uli

Post by Sally Khudairi
Hi everyone --I've drafted up an announcement that I can send out by 12 Noon ET today, if not sooner.
Please review the draft below and forward any corrections/additions no later than 11.15AM ET.
Thanks for this,
Sally
...also, we need to update http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html :^)

On it. Thanks for the reminder.

Post by Sally Khudairi
= = =
The Apache Software Foundation Community Development Project Welcomes Student Proposals for Google
Summer of Code 2013
Hundreds of students mentored in “The Apache Way” of Open Source community leadership
Forest Hill, MD –9 April 2013– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)'s Community Development (ComDev)
project today announced its acceptance into the Google Summer of Code (GsoC) as a mentoring
organization for the eighth consecutive year.
The ComDev team helps newcomers learn about the ASF's projects, governance, and activities, and
guides them in becoming part of the meritocratic, all-volunteer Apache community.
Established in 2005, the Google Summer of Code offers student developers from around the word
stipends to write code for various Open Source software projects over a three month period.
The ASF has actively participated in GSoC since the program's inception, mentoring 30-45 students
each year, and providing exposure to real-world software and community development “The Apache Way”.
Countless GSoC students mentored by the Apache community continue to be long-term code committers on
a variety of Apache projects. Some active program participants have even been elected as members of
the ASF.
This year, dozens of Apache projects have committed to mentoring GSoC students. They include
Accumulo, Airavata, Axiom, Bloodhound, CloudStack, CouchDB, Crunch, Giraph, Gora, Hama, Hive, Isis,
Jena, Lenya, Lucene, Mahout, ManifoldCF, Mesos, Nutch, ODE, OpenMeetings, OpenOffice, Pig, Rat, SIS,
Sling, Solr, Stanbol, Tika, VXQuery, Wookie, XalanJ, and XercesJ.

Make clear that this list isn't exclusive. Maybe "They include but are not limited to..."?

Post by Sally Khudairi
The ComDev team invite GSoC students to propose application ideas directly with all Apache
project(s) of interest no later than Sunday, 21 April 2013. The ASF's more than 100 Top-Level
Projects and nearly three dozen initiatives in the Apache Incubator are listed at
http://www.apache.org/ and http://incubator.apache.org/ respectively.

"The ComDev team recommends GSoC students to discuss application ideas directly with all Apache
project(s) of interest before the official start of the application phase on Monday, 22 April 2013."

Post by Sally Khudairi
For more information on Apache Community Development and to get involved with Apache projects for
GSoC, visit http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html
Details on the Google Summer of Code is available at
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013
About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees nearly one hundred fifty leading Open
Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server — the world's most popular Web server software.
Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way", more than 400 individual Members
and 3,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software,
benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the
Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives,
and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US
501(3)(c) not-for-profit charity, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including
AMD, Basis Technology, Citrix, Cloudera, Facebook, Go Daddy, Google, HP, Hortonworks, Huawei, IBM,
InMotion Hosting, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, PSW Group, SpringSource/VMware, WANdisco, and Yahoo!.
"Apache", "Accumulo", "Apache Accumulo", "Airavata", "Apache Airavata", "Axiom", "Apache Axiom",
"Bloodhound", "Apache Bloodhound", "CloudStack", "Apache CloudStack", "CouchDB", "Apache CouchDB",
"Crunch", "Apache Crunch", "Giraph", "Apache Giraph", "Gora", "Apache Gora", "Hama", "Apache Hama",
"Hive", "Apache Hive", "Isis", "Apache Isis", "Jena", "Apache Jena", "Lenya", "Apache Lenya",
"Lucene", "Apache Lucene", "Mahout", "Apache Mahout", "ManifoldCF", "Apache ManifoldCF", "Mesos",
"Apache Mesos", "Nutch", "Apache Nutch", "ODE", "Apache ODE", "OpenMeetings", "Apache OpenMeetings",
"OpenOffice", "Apache OpenOffice", "Pig", "Apache Pig", "Rat", "Apache Rat", "SIS", "Apache SIS",
"Sling", "Apache Sling", "Solr", "Apache Solr", "Stanbol", "Apache Stanbol", "Tika", "Apache Tika",
"VXQuery", "Apache VXQuery", "Wookie", "Apache Wookie", "XalanJ", "Apache XalanJ", "XercesJ",
"Apache XercesJ", and "ApacheCon" are registered trademarks or trademarks of the Apache Software
Foundation in the United States and/or other countries. All other brands and trademarks are the
property of their respective owners.
# # #
Sally Khudairi
Vice President
The Apache Software Foundation
+1 617 921 8656
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*Sent:* Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 8:42
*Subject:* Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013
Perfect. Thank you, Uli!
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*Sent:* Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 8:36
*Subject:* Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013
Accumulo, Airavata, Axiom, Bloodhound, CloudStack, Lenya, OpenOffice, ManifoldCF, CouchDB,
Crunch,
Giraph, Gora, Hama, Hive, Isis, Jena, Lucene, Mahout, Mesos, Nutch, Ode, Openmeetings, Pig, Rat,
SIS, Sling, Solr, Stanbol, Tika, VXQuery, Wookie, XalanJ, XercesJ
It isn't exclusive, these are simply the projects that have submitted project ideas. Every
student
is free to approach any project and propose an idea (which is also highly encouraged).
Cheers,
Uli

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
Any project can be involved. The ones listed at [4] have explicitly submitted ideas for

students but

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
that doesn't mean students can't approach projects not mentioned there. I'll compile a

list from [4]

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
for you.
Uli

Post by Sally Khudairi
One more thing: do we have a list of Apache projects that will be involved here?
Thanks,
Sally

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Post by Sally Khudairi
*Sent:* Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 8:11
*Subject:* ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013
Recycling last years email on the topic. All dates and links updated. It would be cool

if we could

Post by Sally Khudairi
get this out asap. Is there anything else you need?
Uli
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Apache Software Foundation accepted as a mentoring organization for Google

Summer of

Post by Sally Khudairi
Code 2012
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:21:40 +0100
Hey Sally & Co.,
this year we won't forget to provide you with some infos on our GSoC endeavours.

Yesterday, we have

Post by Sally Khudairi
been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013 [1],[2]. This

means that

Post by Sally Khudairi
over the summer, our committers will mentor students that are sponsored by Google and

will be

Post by Sally Khudairi
working on our projects. The program helps us not only to get some code written but

also to

Post by Sally Khudairi
introduce students into open source development and hopefully recruit some new

long-term committers.

Post by Sally Khudairi
More information on the program is available at [3]. Students are now encouraged to

discuss ideas

Post by Sally Khudairi
with the respective projects and begin drafting proposals. An extensive list of

already existing

Post by Sally Khudairi
project ideas is available at [4]. The actual application phase is from April 24 until

May 3, coding

Post by Sally Khudairi
will take place from June 17 to September 23. See [5] for the detailed timeline.
Thanks,
Uli
[1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013
[2] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/apache
[3]

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2013/help_page

Post by Sally Khudairi
[4] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2013ideas
[5] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2013

Dan Filimon

2013-04-09 14:44:24 UTC

Sorry to derail the topic of this thread, but how many slots will Apache
have, and how many slots will each project get?

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
Looks fine to me except for two small things.
Comments inline.
Uli

Post by Sally Khudairi
Hi everyone --I've drafted up an announcement that I can send out by 12

Noon ET today, if not sooner.

Post by Sally Khudairi
Please review the draft below and forward any corrections/additions no

later than 11.15AM ET.

Post by Sally Khudairi
Thanks for this,
Sally
...also, we need to update http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html :^)

On it. Thanks for the reminder.

Post by Sally Khudairi
= = =
The Apache Software Foundation Community Development Project Welcomes

Student Proposals for Google

Post by Sally Khudairi
Summer of Code 2013
Hundreds of students mentored in âThe Apache Wayâ of Open Source

community leadership

Post by Sally Khudairi
Forest Hill, MD â9 April 2013â The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)'s

Community Development (ComDev)

Post by Sally Khudairi
project today announced its acceptance into the Google Summer of Code

(GsoC) as a mentoring

Post by Sally Khudairi
organization for the eighth consecutive year.
The ComDev team helps newcomers learn about the ASF's projects,

governance, and activities, and

Post by Sally Khudairi
guides them in becoming part of the meritocratic, all-volunteer Apache

community.

Post by Sally Khudairi
Established in 2005, the Google Summer of Code offers student developers

from around the word

Post by Sally Khudairi
stipends to write code for various Open Source software projects over a

three month period.

Post by Sally Khudairi
The ASF has actively participated in GSoC since the program's inception,

mentoring 30-45 students

Post by Sally Khudairi
each year, and providing exposure to real-world software and community

development âThe Apache Wayâ.

Post by Sally Khudairi
Countless GSoC students mentored by the Apache community continue to be

long-term code committers on

Post by Sally Khudairi
a variety of Apache projects. Some active program participants have even

been elected as members of

Post by Sally Khudairi
the ASF.
This year, dozens of Apache projects have committed to mentoring GSoC

students. They include

Post by Sally Khudairi
Accumulo, Airavata, Axiom, Bloodhound, CloudStack, CouchDB, Crunch,

Giraph, Gora, Hama, Hive, Isis,

Post by Sally Khudairi
Jena, Lenya, Lucene, Mahout, ManifoldCF, Mesos, Nutch, ODE,

OpenMeetings, OpenOffice, Pig, Rat, SIS,

Post by Sally Khudairi
Sling, Solr, Stanbol, Tika, VXQuery, Wookie, XalanJ, and XercesJ.

Make clear that this list isn't exclusive. Maybe "They include but are not limited to..."?

Post by Sally Khudairi
The ComDev team invite GSoC students to propose application ideas

directly with all Apache

Post by Sally Khudairi
project(s) of interest no later than Sunday, 21 April 2013. The ASF's

more than 100 Top-Level

Post by Sally Khudairi
Projects and nearly three dozen initiatives in the Apache Incubator are

listed at

Post by Sally Khudairi
http://www.apache.org/ and http://incubator.apache.org/ respectively.

"The ComDev team recommends GSoC students to discuss application ideas
directly with all Apache
project(s) of interest before the official start of the application phase
on Monday, 22 April 2013."

Post by Sally Khudairi
For more information on Apache Community Development and to get involved

with Apache projects for

Post by Sally Khudairi
GSoC, visit http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html
Details on the Google Summer of Code is available at
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013
About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees nearly one

hundred fifty leading Open

Post by Sally Khudairi
Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server â the world's most popular

Web server software.

Post by Sally Khudairi
Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way", more

than 400 individual Members

Post by Sally Khudairi
and 3,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely

available enterprise-grade software,

Post by Sally Khudairi
benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions

are distributed under the

Post by Sally Khudairi
Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing

lists, mentoring initiatives,

Post by Sally Khudairi
and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and

expo. The ASF is a US

Post by Sally Khudairi
501(3)(c) not-for-profit charity, funded by individual donations and

corporate sponsors including

Post by Sally Khudairi
AMD, Basis Technology, Citrix, Cloudera, Facebook, Go Daddy, Google, HP,

Hortonworks, Huawei, IBM,

Post by Sally Khudairi
InMotion Hosting, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, PSW Group,

SpringSource/VMware, WANdisco, and Yahoo!.
Twitter.

Post by Sally Khudairi
"Apache", "Accumulo", "Apache Accumulo", "Airavata", "Apache Airavata",

"Axiom", "Apache Axiom",

Post by Sally Khudairi
"Bloodhound", "Apache Bloodhound", "CloudStack", "Apache CloudStack",

"CouchDB", "Apache CouchDB",

Post by Sally Khudairi
"Crunch", "Apache Crunch", "Giraph", "Apache Giraph", "Gora", "Apache

Gora", "Hama", "Apache Hama",

Post by Sally Khudairi
"Hive", "Apache Hive", "Isis", "Apache Isis", "Jena", "Apache Jena",

"Lenya", "Apache Lenya",

Post by Sally Khudairi
"Lucene", "Apache Lucene", "Mahout", "Apache Mahout", "ManifoldCF",

"Apache ManifoldCF", "Mesos",

Post by Sally Khudairi
"Apache Mesos", "Nutch", "Apache Nutch", "ODE", "Apache ODE",

"OpenMeetings", "Apache OpenMeetings",

Post by Sally Khudairi
"OpenOffice", "Apache OpenOffice", "Pig", "Apache Pig", "Rat", "Apache

Rat", "SIS", "Apache SIS",

Post by Sally Khudairi
"Sling", "Apache Sling", "Solr", "Apache Solr", "Stanbol", "Apache

Stanbol", "Tika", "Apache Tika",

Post by Sally Khudairi
"VXQuery", "Apache VXQuery", "Wookie", "Apache Wookie", "XalanJ",

"Apache XalanJ", "XercesJ",

Post by Sally Khudairi
"Apache XercesJ", and "ApacheCon" are registered trademarks or

trademarks of the Apache Software

Post by Sally Khudairi
Foundation in the United States and/or other countries. All other brands

and trademarks are the

Post by Sally Khudairi
property of their respective owners.
# # #
Sally Khudairi
Vice President
The Apache Software Foundation
+1 617 921 8656

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Post by Sally Khudairi
*Sent:* Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 8:42
*Subject:* Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google

Summer of Code 2013

Post by Sally Khudairi
Perfect. Thank you, Uli!

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Post by Sally Khudairi
*Sent:* Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 8:36
*Subject:* Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for

Google Summer of Code 2013

Post by Sally Khudairi
Accumulo, Airavata, Axiom, Bloodhound, CloudStack, Lenya,

OpenOffice, ManifoldCF, CouchDB,

Post by Sally Khudairi
Crunch,
Giraph, Gora, Hama, Hive, Isis, Jena, Lucene, Mahout, Mesos,

Nutch, Ode, Openmeetings, Pig, Rat,

Post by Sally Khudairi
SIS, Sling, Solr, Stanbol, Tika, VXQuery, Wookie, XalanJ, XercesJ
It isn't exclusive, these are simply the projects that have

submitted project ideas. Every

Post by Sally Khudairi
student
is free to approach any project and propose an idea (which is

also highly encouraged).

Post by Sally Khudairi
Cheers,
Uli

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
Any project can be involved. The ones listed at [4] have

explicitly submitted ideas for

Post by Sally Khudairi
students but

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
that doesn't mean students can't approach projects not

mentioned there. I'll compile a

Post by Sally Khudairi
list from [4]

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
for you.
Uli

Post by Sally Khudairi
One more thing: do we have a list of Apache projects that

will be involved here?

Post by Sally Khudairi
Thanks,
Sally

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Post by Sally Khudairi
*Sent:* Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 8:11
*Subject:* ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for

Google Summer of Code 2013

Post by Sally Khudairi
Recycling last years email on the topic. All dates and

links updated. It would be cool

Post by Sally Khudairi
if we could

Post by Sally Khudairi
get this out asap. Is there anything else you need?
Uli
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Apache Software Foundation accepted as a

mentoring organization for Google

Post by Sally Khudairi
Summer of

Post by Sally Khudairi
Code 2012
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:21:40 +0100
Hey Sally & Co.,
this year we won't forget to provide you with some infos

on our GSoC endeavours.

Post by Sally Khudairi
Yesterday, we have

Post by Sally Khudairi
been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google

Summer of Code 2013 [1],[2]. This

Post by Sally Khudairi
means that

Post by Sally Khudairi
over the summer, our committers will mentor students that

are sponsored by Google and

Post by Sally Khudairi
will be

Post by Sally Khudairi
working on our projects. The program helps us not only to

get some code written but

Post by Sally Khudairi
also to

Post by Sally Khudairi
introduce students into open source development and

hopefully recruit some new

Post by Sally Khudairi
long-term committers.

Post by Sally Khudairi
More information on the program is available at [3].

Students are now encouraged to

Post by Sally Khudairi
discuss ideas

Post by Sally Khudairi
with the respective projects and begin drafting proposals.

An extensive list of

Post by Sally Khudairi
already existing

Post by Sally Khudairi
project ideas is available at [4]. The actual application

phase is from April 24 until

Post by Sally Khudairi
May 3, coding

Post by Sally Khudairi
will take place from June 17 to September 23. See [5] for

the detailed timeline.

Post by Sally Khudairi
Can you please run any press release past us (
Thanks,
Uli
[1]

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013

Post by Sally Khudairi
[2]

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/apache

Post by Sally Khudairi
[3]

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2013/help_page

Post by Sally Khudairi
[4] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2013ideas
[5]

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2013

Gary Martin

2013-04-09 14:47:57 UTC

Just in case it is missed I should add that there appears to be a
mistake in the paragraph beginning "Established in 2005," where "around
the word" should read "around the world".

Cheers
Gary

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
Looks fine to me except for two small things.
Comments inline.
Uli

On it. Thanks for the reminder.

Make clear that this list isn't exclusive. Maybe "They include but are not limited to..."?

"The ComDev team recommends GSoC students to discuss application ideas directly with all Apache
project(s) of interest before the official start of the application phase on Monday, 22 April 2013."

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
Any project can be involved. The ones listed at [4] have explicitly submitted ideas for

students but

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
that doesn't mean students can't approach projects not mentioned there. I'll compile a

list from [4]

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
for you.
Uli

Post by Sally Khudairi
One more thing: do we have a list of Apache projects that will be involved here?
Thanks,
Sally

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

if we could

Post by Sally Khudairi
get this out asap. Is there anything else you need?
Uli
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Apache Software Foundation accepted as a mentoring organization for Google

Summer of

Post by Sally Khudairi
Code 2012
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:21:40 +0100
Hey Sally & Co.,
this year we won't forget to provide you with some infos on our GSoC endeavours.

Yesterday, we have

Post by Sally Khudairi
been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013 [1],[2]. This

means that

Post by Sally Khudairi
over the summer, our committers will mentor students that are sponsored by Google and

will be

Post by Sally Khudairi
working on our projects. The program helps us not only to get some code written but

also to

Post by Sally Khudairi
introduce students into open source development and hopefully recruit some new

long-term committers.

Post by Sally Khudairi
More information on the program is available at [3]. Students are now encouraged to

discuss ideas

Post by Sally Khudairi
with the respective projects and begin drafting proposals. An extensive list of

already existing

Post by Sally Khudairi
project ideas is available at [4]. The actual application phase is from April 24 until

May 3, coding

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2013/help_page

Post by Sally Khudairi
[4] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2013ideas
[5] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2013

Ulrich Stärk

2015-03-12 17:31:07 UTC

And again recycling this. I think we missed 2014 so I want to make sure to get an announcement out
this year.

Cheers,

Uli

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
Recycling last years email on the topic. All dates and links updated. It would be cool if we could
get this out asap. Is there anything else you need?
Uli
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Apache Software Foundation accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2012
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:21:40 +0100
Hey Sally & Co.,
this year we won't forget to provide you with some infos on our GSoC endeavours. Yesterday, we have
been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015 [1],[2]. This means that
over the summer, our committers will mentor students that are sponsored by Google and will be
working on our projects. The program helps us not only to get some code written but also to
introduce students into open source development and hopefully recruit some new long-term committers.
More information on the program is available at [3]. Students are now encouraged to discuss ideas
with the respective projects and begin drafting proposals. An extensive list of already existing
project ideas is available at [4]. The actual application phase is from March 16 until March 27, coding
will take place from May 25 to August 21. See [5] for the detailed timeline.
Thanks,
Uli
[1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015
[2] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/apache
[3] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2015/help_page
[4] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas
[5] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2015

Sally Khudairi

2015-03-12 17:42:53 UTC

Thanks, Uli.
I did post about it in our weekly news round-up.
Happy to work with you on a press release. Who is the ASF lead on GSoC. You?Â Who from ComDev will be at ApacheCon? Are you planning to do something special there?
Cheers,Sally
From: Ulrich StÃ€rk <***@spielviel.de>
To: "***@apache.org" <***@apache.org>; Sally Khudairi <***@apache.org>
Cc: "***@community.apache.org" <***@community.apache.org>
Sent: Thursday, 12 March 2015, 13:31
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015

And again recycling this. I think we missed 2014 so I want to make sure to get an announcement out
this year.

Cheers,

Uli

Ulrich Stärk

2015-03-12 17:54:10 UTC

Hi Sally,

yes, I'm the GSoC lead again.

I don't know who from ComDev will be at ApacheCon but I guess at least Ross will. There's nothing
planned at the moment.

Cheers,

Uli

Thanks, Uli.
I did post about it in our weekly news round-up.
Happy to work with you on a press release. Who is the ASF lead on GSoC. You?
Who from ComDev will be at ApacheCon? Are you planning to do something special there?
Cheers,
Sally
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*Sent:* Thursday, 12 March 2015, 13:31
*Subject:* Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
And again recycling this. I think we missed 2014 so I want to make sure to get an announcement out
this year.
Cheers,
Uli

2012

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:21:40 +0100
Hey Sally & Co.,
this year we won't forget to provide you with some infos on our GSoC endeavours. Yesterday, we have
been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015 [1],[2]. This means that
over the summer, our committers will mentor students that are sponsored by Google and will be
working on our projects. The program helps us not only to get some code written but also to
introduce students into open source development and hopefully recruit some new long-term committers.
More information on the program is available at [3]. Students are now encouraged to discuss ideas
with the respective projects and begin drafting proposals. An extensive list of already existing
project ideas is available at [4]. The actual application phase is from March 16 until March 27,

coding

Sally Khudairi

2015-03-12 17:57:33 UTC

Got it. OK.
Let me pull something together and get back to you in a day or so. Does that work for you?
Cheers,SallyÂ
From: Ulrich StÃ€rk <***@spielviel.de>
To: Sally Khudairi <***@apache.org>; "***@apache.org" <***@apache.org>
Cc: "***@community.apache.org" <***@community.apache.org>
Sent: Thursday, 12 March 2015, 13:54
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015

Hi Sally,

yes, I'm the GSoC lead again.

I don't know who from ComDev will be at ApacheCon but I guess at least Ross will. There's nothing
planned at the moment.

Cheers,

Uli

Thanks, Uli.
I did post about it in our weekly news round-up.
Happy to work with you on a press release. Who is the ASF lead on GSoC. You?
Â
Who from ComDev will be at ApacheCon? Are you planning to do something special there?
Cheers,
Sally
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*Sent:* Thursday, 12 March 2015, 13:31
*Subject:* Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
And again recycling this. I think we missed 2014 so I want to make sure to get an announcement out
this year.
Cheers,
Uli

2012

coding

Ulrich Stärk

2015-03-12 17:59:07 UTC

Perfect, thanks!

Cheers,

Uli

Post by Sally Khudairi
Got it. OK.
Let me pull something together and get back to you in a day or so. Does that work for you?
Cheers,
Sally
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*Sent:* Thursday, 12 March 2015, 13:54
*Subject:* Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
Hi Sally,
yes, I'm the GSoC lead again.
I don't know who from ComDev will be at ApacheCon but I guess at least Ross will. There's nothing
planned at the moment.
Cheers,
Uli

2012

coding

Suresh Marru

2015-03-12 19:49:32 UTC

Hi Sally,

I am sure Ross and few others from ComDev will also be there at ApacheCon and should be able to provide details on GSoC at ASF. I will be there as well and also have a talk accepted on the same topic - http://sched.co/2P6f <http://sched.co/2P6f>

Please let me know if you would like to promote anything specific on GSoC, I will be happy to help and will appreciate your efforts.

Suresh

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
Perfect, thanks!
Cheers,
Uli

2012

coding

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
will take place from May 25 to August 21. See [5] for the detailed timeline.
Thanks,
Uli
[1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015 <http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015>
[2] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/apache <http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/apache>
[3] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2015/help_page <http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2015/help_page>
[4] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas <http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas>
[5] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2015 <http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2015>

Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)

2015-03-12 19:56:00 UTC

Sally we could weave this into the diversity angle, as a reminder I intend to use the state of the feather to acknowledge that we have mostly failed to move the needle on diversity in our community, that very little works (GSoC is a good example of something that does work), accept we don’t have significant cash resources to make a big difference and therefore we have invited TEALs to present, organize a BOF and have a table in the expo area. TEALs help get people like our vast army of volunteers into high schools to help improve CS education. My hope is that by supporting activities like this we can have a small impact on the quality and breadth of CS education for those coming to us as contributors in later years.

What do you think? If this works for you I could link you to the TEALs people to help with content for a blog.

Oh, and I will be at ApacheCon.

Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.
A subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation

-----Original Message-----
From: Suresh Marru [mailto:***@apache.org]
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 12:50 PM
To: ***@community.apache.org
Cc: Sally Khudairi; ***@apache.org
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015

Hi Sally,

I am sure Ross and few others from ComDev will also be there at ApacheCon and should be able to provide details on GSoC at ASF. I will be there as well and also have a talk accepted on the same topic - http://sched.co/2P6f <http://sched.co/2P6f>

Please let me know if you would like to promote anything specific on GSoC, I will be happy to help and will appreciate your efforts.

Suresh

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
Perfect, thanks!
Cheers,
Uli

Post by Sally Khudairi
Got it. OK.
Let me pull something together and get back to you in a day or so. Does that work for you?
Cheers,
Sally
---------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------
*Sent:* Thursday, 12 March 2015, 13:54
*Subject:* Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
Hi Sally,
yes, I'm the GSoC lead again.
I don't know who from ComDev will be at ApacheCon but I guess at
least Ross will. There's nothing planned at the moment.
Cheers,
Uli

Thanks, Uli.
I did post about it in our weekly news round-up.
Happy to work with you on a press release. Who is the ASF lead on GSoC. You?
Who from ComDev will be at ApacheCon? Are you planning to do something special there?
Cheers,
Sally
--------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------
*Sent:* Thursday, 12 March 2015, 13:31
*Subject:* Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
And again recycling this. I think we missed 2014 so I want to make
sure to get an announcement out this year.
Cheers,
Uli

2012

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:21:40 +0100
Hey Sally & Co.,
this year we won't forget to provide you with some infos on our
GSoC endeavours. Yesterday, we have been accepted as a mentoring
organization for Google Summer of Code 2015 [1],[2]. This means
that over the summer, our committers will mentor students that are
sponsored by Google and will be working on our projects. The program helps us not only to get some code written but also to introduce students into open source development and hopefully recruit some new long-term committers.
More information on the program is available at [3]. Students are
now encouraged to discuss ideas with the respective projects and
begin drafting proposals. An extensive list of already existing
project ideas is available at [4]. The actual application phase is
from March 16 until March 27,

coding

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
will take place from May 25 to August 21. See [5] for the detailed timeline.
Can you please run any press release past us
Thanks,
Uli
[1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015
<http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015>
[2] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/apache
<http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/apache>
[3]
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/googl
e/gsoc2015/help_page
<http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/goog
le/gsoc2015/help_page> [4] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas
<http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas>
[5] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2015
<http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2015>

Sally Khudairi

2015-03-13 21:00:20 UTC

Just a quick question on this.
Seeing that there will be some members of ComDev as well as PMCs at ApacheCon, is it likely that any in-person mentoring/hackathon/MeetUps/* will take place there?
I know it's not common practice for GSoC, but I was curious if we'd be open to anything like that. Humans huddling and all...
Thanks,SallyÂ
From: Suresh Marru <***@apache.org>
To: ***@community.apache.org
Cc: Sally Khudairi <***@apache.org>; "***@apache.org" <***@apache.org>
Sent: Thursday, 12 March 2015, 15:49
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015

Hi Sally,
I am sure Ross and few others from ComDev will also be there at ApacheCon and should be able to provide details on GSoC at ASF. I will be there as well and also have a talk accepted on the same topic -Â http://sched.co/2P6fÂ
Please let me know if you would like to promote anything specific on GSoC, I will be happy to help and will appreciate your efforts.Â
Suresh

On Mar 12, 2015, at 1:59 PM, Ulrich StÃ€rk <***@spielviel.de> wrote:
Perfect, thanks!

Cheers,

Uli

On 2015-03-12 18:57, Sally Khudairi wrote:

Got it. OK.

Let me pull something together and get back to you in a day or so. Does that work for you?

Cheers,
Sally

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*From:* Ulrich StÃ€rk <***@spielviel.de>
*To:* Sally Khudairi <***@apache.org>; "***@apache.org" <***@apache.org>
*Cc:* "***@community.apache.org" <***@community.apache.org>
*Sent:* Thursday, 12 March 2015, 13:54
*Subject:* Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015

Hi Sally,

yes, I'm the GSoC lead again.

I don't know who from ComDev will be at ApacheCon but I guess at least Ross will. There's nothing
planned at the moment.

Cheers,

Uli

On 2015-03-12 18:42, Sally Khudairi wrote:

Thanks, Uli.

I did post about it in our weekly news round-up.

Happy to work with you on a press release. Who is the ASF lead on GSoC. You?

Who from ComDev will be at ApacheCon? Are you planning to do something special there?

Cheers,
Sally

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*From:* Ulrich StÃ€rk <***@spielviel.deÂ <mailto:***@spielviel.de>>
*To:* "***@apache.orgÂ <mailto:***@apache.org>" <***@apache.orgÂ <mailto:***@apache.org>>;

Sally Khudairi <***@apache.orgÂ <mailto:***@apache.org>>

*Cc:* "***@community.apache.orgÂ <mailto:***@community.apache.org>" <***@community.apache.org

<mailto:***@community.apache.org>>

*Sent:* Thursday, 12 March 2015, 13:31
*Subject:* Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015

And again recycling this. I think we missed 2014 so I want to make sure to get an announcement out
this year.

Cheers,

Uli

On 2013-04-09 14:11, Ulrich StÃ€rk wrote:

Recycling last years email on the topic. All dates and links updated. It would be cool if we could
get this out asap. Is there anything else you need?

Uli

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Apache Software Foundation accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code

2012

Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:21:40 +0100
From: Ulrich StÃ€rk <***@spielviel.deÂ <mailto:***@spielviel.de> <mailto:***@spielviel.de

<mailto:***@spielviel.de>>>

To:Â ***@apache.orgÂ <mailto:***@apache.org> <mailto:***@apache.orgÂ <mailto:***@apache.org>>
CC:Â ***@community.apache.orgÂ <mailto:***@community.apache.org> <mailto:***@community.apache.org

<mailto:***@community.apache.org>>

Hey Sally & Co.,

this year we won't forget to provide you with some infos on our GSoC endeavours. Yesterday, we have
been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015 [1],[2]. This means that
over the summer, our committers will mentor students that are sponsored by Google and will be
working on our projects. The program helps us not only to get some code written but also to
introduce students into open source development and hopefully recruit some new long-term committers.
More information on the program is available at [3]. Students are now encouraged to discuss ideas
with the respective projects and begin drafting proposals. An extensive list of already existing
project ideas is available at [4]. The actual application phase is from March 16 until March 27,

coding

will take place from May 25 to August 21. See [5] for the detailed timeline.

Can you please run any press release past us (***@community.apache.org

<mailto:***@community.apache.org>

<mailto:***@community.apache.orgÂ <mailto:***@community.apache.org>>) before publishing?

Thanks,

Uli

[1]Â http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015
[2]Â http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/apache
[3]Â http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2015/help_page
[4]Â http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas
[5]Â http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2015

Ulrich Stärk

2015-03-13 21:11:19 UTC

Hi Sally,

probably not. Accepted student projects will only be announced on April 27, long after ApacheCon is
over.

Cheers,

Uli

Post by Sally Khudairi
Just a quick question on this.
Seeing that there will be some members of ComDev as well as PMCs at ApacheCon, is it likely that any in-person mentoring/hackathon/MeetUps/* will take place there?
I know it's not common practice for GSoC, but I was curious if we'd be open to anything like that. Humans huddling and all...
Thanks,Sally
Sent: Thursday, 12 March 2015, 15:49
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
Hi Sally,
I am sure Ross and few others from ComDev will also be there at ApacheCon and should be able to provide details on GSoC at ASF. I will be there as well and also have a talk accepted on the same topic - http://sched.co/2P6f
Please let me know if you would like to promote anything specific on GSoC, I will be happy to help and will appreciate your efforts.
Suresh
Perfect, thanks!
Cheers,
Uli
Got it. OK.
Let me pull something together and get back to you in a day or so. Does that work for you?
Cheers,
Sally
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*Sent:* Thursday, 12 March 2015, 13:54
*Subject:* Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
Hi Sally,
yes, I'm the GSoC lead again.
I don't know who from ComDev will be at ApacheCon but I guess at least Ross will. There's nothing
planned at the moment.
Cheers,
Uli
Thanks, Uli.
I did post about it in our weekly news round-up.
Happy to work with you on a press release. Who is the ASF lead on GSoC. You?
Who from ComDev will be at ApacheCon? Are you planning to do something special there?
Cheers,
Sally
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*Sent:* Thursday, 12 March 2015, 13:31
*Subject:* Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
And again recycling this. I think we missed 2014 so I want to make sure to get an announcement out
this year.
Cheers,
Uli
Recycling last years email on the topic. All dates and links updated. It would be cool if we could
get this out asap. Is there anything else you need?
Uli
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Apache Software Foundation accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code
2012
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:21:40 +0100
Hey Sally & Co.,
this year we won't forget to provide you with some infos on our GSoC endeavours. Yesterday, we have
been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015 [1],[2]. This means that
over the summer, our committers will mentor students that are sponsored by Google and will be
working on our projects. The program helps us not only to get some code written but also to
introduce students into open source development and hopefully recruit some new long-term committers.
More information on the program is available at [3]. Students are now encouraged to discuss ideas
with the respective projects and begin drafting proposals. An extensive list of already existing
project ideas is available at [4]. The actual application phase is from March 16 until March 27,
coding
will take place from May 25 to August 21. See [5] for the detailed timeline.
Thanks,
Uli
[1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015
[2] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/apache
[3] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2015/help_page
[4] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas
[5] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2015

Sally Khudairi

2015-03-13 21:14:21 UTC

Got it. Just thought that since we have an opportunity to socialize, that we could do something.

Thanks for following up on this, Uli! I'll get the draft to you this weekend.

Chat soon,
Sally

----- Original Message -----
From: Ulrich Stärk <***@spielviel.de>
To: ***@community.apache.org
Cc: "***@apache.org" <***@apache.org>
Sent: Friday, 13 March 2015, 17:11
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015

Hi Sally,

probably not. Accepted student projects will only be announced on April 27, long after ApacheCon is
over.

Cheers,

Uli

Ulrich Stärk

2015-03-13 21:09:18 UTC

Hey Sally,

I just read the announcement and it says "The ASF has been accepted as a Google Summer of Code
mentoring organization for the 10th consecutive year".

If I'm not mistaken it's the 11th year ;)

Cheers,

Uli

Thanks, Uli.
I did post about it in our weekly news round-up.
Happy to work with you on a press release. Who is the ASF lead on GSoC. You? Who from ComDev will be at ApacheCon? Are you planning to do something special there?
Cheers,Sally
Sent: Thursday, 12 March 2015, 13:31
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
And again recycling this. I think we missed 2014 so I want to make sure to get an announcement out
this year.
Cheers,
Uli

Sally Khudairi

2015-03-13 21:13:04 UTC

Whaaaaat?

Really? I had it in the "Did You Know?" section last week as 10th also.

AND, more importantly, if my calculations are off, then in

https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/date/20141119

the 2013 entry as "eighth consecutive year" is wrong too.

Who has the correct count? It really is 11? Not that I don't trust you, I now am feeling quite lost.

Cheers,
Sally

________________________________
From: Ulrich Stärk <***@spielviel.de>
To: "***@apache.org" <***@apache.org>
Cc: ***@community.apache.org; Sally Khudairi <***@apache.org>
Sent: Friday, 13 March 2015, 17:09
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015

Hey Sally,

I just read the announcement and it says "The ASF has been accepted as a Google Summer of Code
mentoring organization for the 10th consecutive year".

If I'm not mistaken it's the 11th year ;)

Cheers,

Uli

Thanks, Uli.
I did post about it in our weekly news round-up.
Happy to work with you on a press release. Who is the ASF lead on GSoC. You? Who from ComDev will be at ApacheCon? Are you planning to do something special there?
Cheers,Sally
Sent: Thursday, 12 March 2015, 13:31
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
And again recycling this. I think we missed 2014 so I want to make sure to get an announcement out
this year.
Cheers,
Uli

Greg Stein

2015-03-13 21:22:37 UTC

The very first year was 2005. Thus, 2015 would be the 11th GSoC.

As one of the two people to launch/create GSoC, you can call me
authoritative on the dates :-P

Post by Sally Khudairi
Whaaaaat?
Really? I had it in the "Did You Know?" section last week as 10th also.
AND, more importantly, if my calculations are off, then in
https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/date/20141119
the 2013 entry as "eighth consecutive year" is wrong too.
Who has the correct count? It really is 11? Not that I don't trust you, I
now am feeling quite lost.
Cheers,
Sally
________________________________
Sent: Friday, 13 March 2015, 17:09
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
Hey Sally,
I just read the announcement and it says "The ASF has been accepted as a
Google Summer of Code
mentoring organization for the 10th consecutive year".
If I'm not mistaken it's the 11th year ;)
Cheers,
Uli

Thanks, Uli.
I did post about it in our weekly news round-up.
Happy to work with you on a press release. Who is the ASF lead on GSoC.

You? Who from ComDev will be at ApacheCon? Are you planning to do something
special there?

Cheers,Sally
Sent: Thursday, 12 March 2015, 13:31
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer

of Code 2015

And again recycling this. I think we missed 2014 so I want to make sure

to get an announcement out

this year.
Cheers,
Uli

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
Recycling last years email on the topic. All dates and links updated.

It would be cool if we could

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
get this out asap. Is there anything else you need?
Uli
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Apache Software Foundation accepted as a mentoring

organization for Google Summer of Code 2012

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:21:40 +0100
Hey Sally & Co.,
this year we won't forget to provide you with some infos on our GSoC

endeavours. Yesterday, we have

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code

2015 [1],[2]. This means that

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
over the summer, our committers will mentor students that are sponsored

by Google and will be

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
working on our projects. The program helps us not only to get some code

written but also to

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
introduce students into open source development and hopefully recruit

some new long-term committers.

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
More information on the program is available at [3]. Students are now

encouraged to discuss ideas

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
with the respective projects and begin drafting proposals. An extensive

list of already existing

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
project ideas is available at [4]. The actual application phase is from

March 16 until March 27, coding

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
will take place from May 25 to August 21. See [5] for the detailed

timeline.
before publishing?

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
Thanks,
Uli
[1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015
[2] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/apache
[3]

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2015/help_page

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
[4] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas
[5] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2015

Sally Khudairi

2015-03-14 22:13:59 UTC

Greg,

I'd like to put a placeholder for a quote for you in the announcement as well (the lead quote will be coming from Uli).

How would you like to have your attribution described in relation to GSoC? "ASF Vice Chairman and @@WHATEXACTLY"

Of course, I'll be happy to get a quote directly from you (vs. having to de-Sally-fy my proposed blurb) :-)

If you don't want to be quoted, that's OK; I can use Ross as backup.

Thanks so much,

Sally

________________________________
From: Greg Stein <***@gmail.com>
To: Sally Khudairi <***@apache.org>
Cc: Ulrich Stärk <***@spielviel.de>; "***@apache.org" <***@apache.org>; "***@community.apache.org" <***@community.apache.org>
Sent: Friday, 13 March 2015, 17:22
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015

The very first year was 2005. Thus, 2015 would be the 11th GSoC.

As one of the two people to launch/create GSoC, you can call me authoritative on the dates :-P

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Sally Khudairi <***@apache.org> wrote:

Whaaaaat?

Post by Sally Khudairi
Really? I had it in the "Did You Know?" section last week as 10th also.
AND, more importantly, if my calculations are off, then in
https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/date/20141119
the 2013 entry as "eighth consecutive year" is wrong too.
Who has the correct count? It really is 11? Not that I don't trust you, I now am feeling quite lost.
Cheers,
Sally
________________________________
Sent: Friday, 13 March 2015, 17:09
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
Hey Sally,
I just read the announcement and it says "The ASF has been accepted as a Google Summer of Code
mentoring organization for the 10th consecutive year".
If I'm not mistaken it's the 11th year ;)
Cheers,
Uli

Thanks, Uli.
I did post about it in our weekly news round-up.
Happy to work with you on a press release. Who is the ASF lead on GSoC. You? Who from ComDev will be at ApacheCon? Are you planning to do something special there?
Cheers,Sally
Sent: Thursday, 12 March 2015, 13:31
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
And again recycling this. I think we missed 2014 so I want to make sure to get an announcement out
this year.
Cheers,
Uli

Greg Stein

2015-03-14 22:36:39 UTC

Sure, that sounds great! ... are you looking for something like "co-creator
of the GSoC program, while working at Google in 2005" ?? That's a bit of a
mouthful, but is that the direction you're thinking?

And please go ahead an draft up a quote. I'm not quite sure the angle
you're looking at, so best if you go first :-)

Thx,
-g

Post by Sally Khudairi
Greg,
I'd like to put a placeholder for a quote for you in the announcement as
well (the lead quote will be coming from Uli).
How would you like to have your attribution described in relation to GSoC?
Of course, I'll be happy to get a quote directly from you (vs. having to
de-Sally-fy my proposed blurb) :-)
If you don't want to be quoted, that's OK; I can use Ross as backup.
Thanks so much,
Sally
________________________________
Sent: Friday, 13 March 2015, 17:22
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
The very first year was 2005. Thus, 2015 would be the 11th GSoC.
As one of the two people to launch/create GSoC, you can call me
authoritative on the dates :-P
Whaaaaat?

now am feeling quite lost.

Post by Sally Khudairi
Cheers,
Sally
________________________________
Sent: Friday, 13 March 2015, 17:09
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer

of Code 2015

Post by Sally Khudairi
Hey Sally,
I just read the announcement and it says "The ASF has been accepted as a

Google Summer of Code

Post by Sally Khudairi
mentoring organization for the 10th consecutive year".
If I'm not mistaken it's the 11th year ;)
Cheers,
Uli

Thanks, Uli.
I did post about it in our weekly news round-up.
Happy to work with you on a press release. Who is the ASF lead on GSoC.

You? Who from ComDev will be at ApacheCon? Are you planning to do something
special there?

Cheers,Sally
Sent: Thursday, 12 March 2015, 13:31
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google

Summer of Code 2015

And again recycling this. I think we missed 2014 so I want to make sure

to get an announcement out

this year.
Cheers,
Uli

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
Recycling last years email on the topic. All dates and links updated.

It would be cool if we could

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
get this out asap. Is there anything else you need?
Uli
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Apache Software Foundation accepted as a mentoring

organization for Google Summer of Code 2012

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:21:40 +0100
Hey Sally & Co.,
this year we won't forget to provide you with some infos on our GSoC

endeavours. Yesterday, we have

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code

2015 [1],[2]. This means that

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
over the summer, our committers will mentor students that are

sponsored by Google and will be

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
working on our projects. The program helps us not only to get some

code written but also to

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
introduce students into open source development and hopefully recruit

some new long-term committers.

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
More information on the program is available at [3]. Students are now

encouraged to discuss ideas

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
with the respective projects and begin drafting proposals. An

extensive list of already existing

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
project ideas is available at [4]. The actual application phase is

from March 16 until March 27, coding

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
will take place from May 25 to August 21. See [5] for the detailed

timeline.
before publishing?

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
Thanks,
Uli
[1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015
[2] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/apache
[3]

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2015/help_page

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
[4] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas
[5] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2015

Sally Khudairi

2015-03-14 22:44:23 UTC

Thanks, Greg!
That works --better to be a bit wordy and clear vs. brief and vague <g>
We can always write "QUOTE," said Greg Stein, ASF Vice Chairman (andÂ co-creator of the GSoC program, while working at Google in 2005).

Now for the quote itself... I'll put that in the draft that I'll be sending over later.
Cheers & chat soon,SallyÂ
From: Greg Stein <***@gmail.com>
To: Sally Khudairi <***@apache.org>
Cc: Ulrich StÃ€rk <***@spielviel.de>; "***@apache.org" <***@apache.org>; "***@community.apache.org" <***@community.apache.org>
Sent: Saturday, 14 March 2015, 18:36
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015

Sure, that sounds great! âŠ are you looking for something like "co-creator of the GSoC program, while working at Google in 2005" ??Â That's a bit of a mouthful, but is that the direction you're thinking?
And please go ahead an draft up a quote. I'm not quite sure the angle you're looking at, so best if you go first :-)
Thx,-g

On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 5:13 PM, Sally Khudairi <***@apache.org> wrote:

Greg,

I'd like to put a placeholder for a quote for you in the announcement as well (the lead quote will be coming from Uli).

How would you like to have your attribution described in relation to GSoC? "ASF Vice Chairman and @@WHATEXACTLY"

Of course, I'll be happy to get a quote directly from you (vs. having to de-Sally-fy my proposed blurb) :-)

If you don't want to be quoted, that's OK; I can use Ross as backup.

Thanks so much,

Sally

________________________________
From: Greg Stein <***@gmail.com>
To: Sally Khudairi <***@apache.org>
Cc: Ulrich StÃ€rk <***@spielviel.de>; "***@apache.org" <***@apache.org>; "***@community.apache.org" <***@community.apache.org>
Sent: Friday, 13 March 2015, 17:22
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015

The very first year was 2005. Thus, 2015 would be the 11th GSoC.

As one of the two people to launch/create GSoC, you can call me authoritative on the dates :-P

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Sally Khudairi <***@apache.org> wrote:

Whaaaaat?

Thanks, Uli.
I did post about it in our weekly news round-up.
Happy to work with you on a press release. Who is the ASF lead on GSoC. You? Who from ComDev will be at ApacheCon? Are you planning to do something special there?
Cheers,Sally
Â Sent: Thursday, 12 March 2015, 13:31
Â Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
And again recycling this. I think we missed 2014 so I want to make sure to get an announcement out
this year.
Cheers,
Uli

Sally Khudairi

2015-03-15 16:37:23 UTC

Hi everyone --as promised, below is the draft announcement.

Please review and forward any additions/corrections no later than 5PM ET tomorrow (Monday) in order for us to announce on Tuesday. Should we be able to finalize before then (by 9PM ET TODAY), we can go live Monday morning if you'd like.
Also, if someone can please update the ASF boilerplate at http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/apache to the one at the bottom of the draft announcement (below), that would be great.

Thanks so much,
Sally

= = =

DRAFT :: NOT FOR DISSEMINATION

The Apache Software Foundation Accepted as a Google Summer of Code 2015 Mentoring Organization

Hundreds of students mentored in "The Apache Way" of community-driven development since the program's inception in 2005.

Forest Hill, MD –17 March 2015– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today that it has been accepted as a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) mentoring organization for the 11th consecutive year.

The Google Summer of Code program offers student developers stipends to write code for various Open Source projects over a three month period. This year, students will be paired with mentors from 137 Open Source, free software, and technology-related groups that include CERN, GNU Project, KDE, MIT Media Lab, WikiMedia Foundation, and many more.

The ASF was amongst the initial 39 organizations selected to participate in the very first GSoC in 2005, and has participated every year since. At the ASF, the GSoC program is overseen by the Apache Community Development project, which comprises volunteers who help guide newcomers to The Apache Software Foundation, provide insight and advice on The Apache Way of meritocratic development, including how to contribute to Apache projects and to the Open Source community at-large.

"Over the summer, Apache Committers will mentor students that are sponsored by Google and will be working on many of our projects," said Ulrich Stärk, Vice President of Community Development at the ASF. "The program helps us to not only get some great code written, but also to introduce students into Open Source development and hopefully recruit some new long-term Committers."

Now through 27 March, students are encouraged to discuss ideas with mentoring organizations and begin drafting proposals for those projects of interest. Coding will begin 25 May and end 21 August. Thus far, 33 ideas have been proposed for Apache projects in Big Data, Cloud, Enterprise Integration, Enterprise Search, Project Management, Semantic Web & Linked Data, along with other categories. The complete Apache "Ideas Page" is at http://s.apache.org/cDg

"GSoC gives students the chance to work on industry-leading Open Source projects, collaborate with diverse communities, and gain real world experience related to their academic pursuits," added Stärk. "We are proud to have mentored so many talented students over the years, and furthered our mission of providing software products for the public good. It's a rewarding experience both for the students and the Apache community at-large."

Since the program's inception, GSoC has brought together over 8,500 successful student participants from over countries and over 8,000 mentors from 109 countries worldwide to produce over 55 million lines of code.

"Being accepted once again as a Google Summer of Code mentoring organization reinforces The Apache Software Foundation's leadership in community-driven development," said ASF Vice Chairman Greg Stein, who, in 2005 co-created the GSoC program while working at Google. "Hundreds of students have been mentored in 'The Apache Way' --many have continued on to become long-term code committers on a variety of Apache projects, with some active program participants elected as ASF Members."

Information on the ASF's participation in Google Summer of Code is available at http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html

About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than 350 leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server --the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way," more than 500 individual Members and 4,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(c)(3) charitable organization, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including Budget Direct, Cerner, Citrix, Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Hortonworks, HP, IBM, InMotion Hosting, iSigma, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, Pivotal, Produban, WANdisco, and Yahoo. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/ or follow https://twitter.com/TheASF

© The Apache Software Foundation. "Apache", "Apache HTTP Server", and "ApacheCon", are trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

# # #

[MEDIA CONTACT:SALLY]
________________________________

From: Sally Khudairi <***@apache.org>
To: Greg Stein <***@gmail.com>
Cc: Ulrich Stärk <***@spielviel.de>; "***@apache.org" <***@apache.org>; "***@community.apache.org" <***@community.apache.org>
Sent: Saturday, 14 March 2015, 18:44
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015

Thanks, Greg!

That works --better to be a bit wordy and clear vs. brief and vague <g>

We can always write "QUOTE," said Greg Stein, ASF Vice Chairman (and co-creator of the GSoC program, while working at Google in 2005).

Now for the quote itself... I'll put that in the draft that I'll be sending over later.

Cheers & chat soon,
Sally

________________________________
From: Greg Stein <***@gmail.com>
To: Sally Khudairi <***@apache.org>
Cc: Ulrich Stärk <***@spielviel.de>; "***@apache.org" <***@apache.org>; "***@community.apache.org" <***@community.apache.org>
Sent: Saturday, 14 March 2015, 18:36
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015

Sure, that sounds great! … are you looking for something like "co-creator of the GSoC program, while working at Google in 2005" ?? That's a bit of a mouthful, but is that the direction you're thinking?

And please go ahead an draft up a quote. I'm not quite sure the angle you're looking at, so best if you go first :-)

Thx,
-g

On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 5:13 PM, Sally Khudairi <***@apache.org> wrote:

Greg,

Post by Sally Khudairi
I'd like to put a placeholder for a quote for you in the announcement as well (the lead quote will be coming from Uli).
Of course, I'll be happy to get a quote directly from you (vs. having to de-Sally-fy my proposed blurb) :-)
If you don't want to be quoted, that's OK; I can use Ross as backup.
Thanks so much,
Sally
________________________________
Sent: Friday, 13 March 2015, 17:22
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
The very first year was 2005. Thus, 2015 would be the 11th GSoC.
As one of the two people to launch/create GSoC, you can call me authoritative on the dates :-P
Whaaaaat?

Thanks, Uli.
I did post about it in our weekly news round-up.
Happy to work with you on a press release. Who is the ASF lead on GSoC. You? Who from ComDev will be at ApacheCon? Are you planning to do something special there?
Cheers,Sally
Sent: Thursday, 12 March 2015, 13:31
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
And again recycling this. I think we missed 2014 so I want to make sure to get an announcement out
this year.
Cheers,
Uli

Ulrich Stärk

2015-03-15 21:14:32 UTC

Thank you Sally,

my two comments are inline.

Cheers,

Uli

Post by Sally Khudairi
Hi everyone --as promised, below is the draft announcement.
Please review and forward any additions/corrections no later than 5PM ET tomorrow (Monday) in
order for us to announce on Tuesday. Should we be able to finalize before then (by 9PM ET TODAY),
we can go live Monday morning if you'd like. Also, if someone can please update the ASF
boilerplate at http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/apache to the one at the
bottom of the draft announcement (below), that would be great.

Will do.

Post by Sally Khudairi
Thanks so much, Sally
= = =
DRAFT :: NOT FOR DISSEMINATION
The Apache Software Foundation Accepted as a Google Summer of Code 2015 Mentoring Organization
Hundreds of students mentored in "The Apache Way" of community-driven development since the
program's inception in 2005.
Forest Hill, MD –17 March 2015– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer
developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives,
announced today that it has been accepted as a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) mentoring
organization for the 11th consecutive year.
The Google Summer of Code program offers student developers stipends to write code for various
Open Source projects over a three month period. This year, students will be paired with mentors
from 137 Open Source, free software, and technology-related groups that include CERN, GNU
Project, KDE, MIT Media Lab, WikiMedia Foundation, and many more.
The ASF was amongst the initial 39 organizations selected to participate in the very first GSoC
in 2005, and has participated every year since. At the ASF, the GSoC program is overseen by the
Apache Community Development project, which comprises volunteers who help guide newcomers to The
Apache Software Foundation, provide insight and advice on The Apache Way of meritocratic
development, including how to contribute to Apache projects and to the Open Source community
at-large.
"Over the summer, Apache Committers will mentor students that are sponsored by Google and will be
working on many of our projects," said Ulrich Stärk, Vice President of Community Development at
the ASF. "The program helps us to not only get some great code written, but also to introduce
students into Open Source development and hopefully recruit some new long-term Committers."
Now through 27 March, students are encouraged to discuss ideas with mentoring organizations and
begin drafting proposals for those projects of interest. Coding will begin 25 May and end 21

I'd make it more clear that March 27 is the student application *deadline*. To me "begin drafting"
sounds like they could start only then (but then I'm not a native speaker so it could totally be OK
to write it like that).

Post by Sally Khudairi
August. Thus far, 33 ideas have been proposed for Apache projects in Big Data, Cloud, Enterprise
Integration, Enterprise Search, Project Management, Semantic Web & Linked Data, along with other
categories. The complete Apache "Ideas Page" is at http://s.apache.org/cDg

That sounds a bit as if students have already submitted ideas for projects, which is not the case.
We (our mentors) have created a list of project ideas (the official URL is
http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas) from which students may choose (or better yet, come up with
something on their own). Currently that list has 129 entries.

Post by Sally Khudairi
"GSoC gives students the chance to work on industry-leading Open Source projects, collaborate
with diverse communities, and gain real world experience related to their academic pursuits,"
added Stärk. "We are proud to have mentored so many talented students over the years, and
furthered our mission of providing software products for the public good. It's a rewarding
experience both for the students and the Apache community at-large."
Since the program's inception, GSoC has brought together over 8,500 successful student
participants from over countries and over 8,000 mentors from 109 countries worldwide to produce
over 55 million lines of code.
"Being accepted once again as a Google Summer of Code mentoring organization reinforces The
Apache Software Foundation's leadership in community-driven development," said ASF Vice Chairman
Greg Stein, who, in 2005 co-created the GSoC program while working at Google. "Hundreds of
students have been mentored in 'The Apache Way' --many have continued on to become long-term code
committers on a variety of Apache projects, with some active program participants elected as ASF
Members."
Information on the ASF's participation in Google Summer of Code is available at
http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html
About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation
oversees more than 350 leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server --the world's
most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as "The Apache
Way," more than 500 individual Members and 4,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop
freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of
software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively
participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's
official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(c)(3) charitable organization,
funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including Budget Direct, Cerner, Citrix,
Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Hortonworks, HP, IBM, InMotion Hosting, iSigma, Matt
Mullenweg, Microsoft, Pivotal, Produban, WANdisco, and Yahoo. For more information, visit
http://www.apache.org/ or follow https://twitter.com/TheASF
© The Apache Software Foundation. "Apache", "Apache HTTP Server", and "ApacheCon", are trademarks
of The Apache Software Foundation. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.
# # #
[MEDIA CONTACT:SALLY] ________________________________
mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
Thanks, Greg!
That works --better to be a bit wordy and clear vs. brief and vague <g>
We can always write "QUOTE," said Greg Stein, ASF Vice Chairman (and co-creator of the GSoC
program, while working at Google in 2005).
Now for the quote itself... I'll put that in the draft that I'll be sending over later.
Cheers & chat soon, Sally
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
Sure, that sounds great! … are you looking for something like "co-creator of the GSoC program,
while working at Google in 2005" ?? That's a bit of a mouthful, but is that the direction you're
thinking?
And please go ahead an draft up a quote. I'm not quite sure the angle you're looking at, so best
if you go first :-)
Thx, -g
Greg,

Post by Sally Khudairi
I'd like to put a placeholder for a quote for you in the announcement as well (the lead quote
will be coming from Uli).
How would you like to have your attribution described in relation to GSoC? "ASF Vice Chairman
Of course, I'll be happy to get a quote directly from you (vs. having to de-Sally-fy my
proposed blurb) :-)
If you don't want to be quoted, that's OK; I can use Ross as backup.
Thanks so much,
Sally
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
The very first year was 2005. Thus, 2015 would be the 11th GSoC.
As one of the two people to launch/create GSoC, you can call me authoritative on the dates :-P
Whaaaaat?

Post by Sally Khudairi
Really? I had it in the "Did You Know?" section last week as 10th also.
AND, more importantly, if my calculations are off, then in
https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/date/20141119
the 2013 entry as "eighth consecutive year" is wrong too.
Who has the correct count? It really is 11? Not that I don't trust you, I now am feeling
quite lost.
Cheers, Sally
13 March 2015, 17:09
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
Hey Sally,
I just read the announcement and it says "The ASF has been accepted as a Google Summer of
Code mentoring organization for the 10th consecutive year".
If I'm not mistaken it's the 11th year ;)
Cheers,
Uli

Thanks, Uli. I did post about it in our weekly news round-up. Happy to work with you on a
press release. Who is the ASF lead on GSoC. You? Who from ComDev will be at ApacheCon? Are
you planning to do something special there? Cheers,Sally From: Ulrich Stärk
12 March 2015, 13:31 Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google
Summer of Code 2015
And again recycling this. I think we missed 2014 so I want to make sure to get an
announcement out this year.
Cheers,
Uli

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
Recycling last years email on the topic. All dates and links updated. It would be cool if
we could get this out asap. Is there anything else you need?
Uli
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Apache Software Foundation accepted as a
mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2012 Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:21:40
Hey Sally & Co.,
this year we won't forget to provide you with some infos on our GSoC endeavours.
Yesterday, we have been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code
2015 [1],[2]. This means that over the summer, our committers will mentor students that
are sponsored by Google and will be working on our projects. The program helps us not
only to get some code written but also to introduce students into open source development
and hopefully recruit some new long-term committers. More information on the program is
available at [3]. Students are now encouraged to discuss ideas with the respective
projects and begin drafting proposals. An extensive list of already existing project
ideas is available at [4]. The actual application phase is from March 16 until March 27,
coding will take place from May 25 to August 21. See [5] for the detailed timeline.
publishing?
Thanks,
Uli
[1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015 [2]
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/apache [3]
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2015/help_page
[4] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas [5]
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2015

Sally Khudairi

2013-04-09 12:32:52 UTC

Thanks for clarifying, Uli.

I'm not going to drop this. Just need some time to juggle the balls already in-hand.

I'll be in touch in a couple of hours.

Chat soon,
Sally

[From the mobile; kindly excuse spelling/spacing/auto-correct anomalies]

----- Reply message -----
From: "Ulrich StÃ€rk" <***@spielviel.de>
To: "Sally Khudairi" <***@apache.org>
Cc: "***@apache.org" <***@apache.org>, "***@community.apache.org" <***@community.apache.org>
Subject: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013
Date: Tue, Apr 9, 2013 8:27 AM

Sorry. I didn't know that there was a difference between press release and announcement.

Of course. If you think that a press release won't reach our intended audience, then skip it. The
urgency is due to the fact that the application phase will start in two weeks and I'd like to spread
the word as early as possible.

Cheers,

Uli

Thanks, Uli.
I'll get on it. I have two press releases going out this morning, which creates a news logjam

from a

media standpoint.
Are you OK with this going out tomorrow? If not, I'll get cracking on this after our 9AM ET

release

goes out.
Cheers,
Sally

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

we could

we have

been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013 [1],[2]. This

means that

committers.

More information on the program is available at [3]. Students are now encouraged to discuss

ideas

with the respective projects and begin drafting proposals. An extensive list of already

existing

project ideas is available at [4]. The actual application phase is from April 24 until May

3, coding

Sally Khudairi

2013-04-09 14:57:03 UTC

Ack. Thanks, Uli.

Any other comments? Do you still want to go live at 12Noon-ish ET?

If I get the final signoff soon, I might be able to get it out at 11.30am.

Cheers,
Sally

[From the mobile; kindly excuse spelling/spacing/auto-correct anomalies]

----- Reply message -----
From: "Ulrich StÃ€rk" <***@spielviel.de>
To: "Sally Khudairi" <***@apache.org>
Cc: "Sally Khudairi" <***@yahoo.com>, "***@community.apache.org" <***@community.apache.org>, "***@apache.org" <***@apache.org>
Subject: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013
Date: Tue, Apr 9, 2013 10:42 AM

Looks fine to me except for two small things.

Comments inline.

Uli

On it. Thanks for the reminder.

Post by Sally Khudairi
= = =
The Apache Software Foundation Community Development Project Welcomes Student Proposals for Google
Summer of Code 2013
Hundreds of students mentored in âThe Apache Wayâ of Open Source community leadership
Forest Hill, MD â9 April 2013â The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)'s Community Development (ComDev)
project today announced its acceptance into the Google Summer of Code (GsoC) as a mentoring
organization for the eighth consecutive year.
The ComDev team helps newcomers learn about the ASF's projects, governance, and activities, and
guides them in becoming part of the meritocratic, all-volunteer Apache community.
Established in 2005, the Google Summer of Code offers student developers from around the word
stipends to write code for various Open Source software projects over a three month period.
The ASF has actively participated in GSoC since the program's inception, mentoring 30-45 students
each year, and providing exposure to real-world software and community development âThe Apache Wayâ.
Countless GSoC students mentored by the Apache community continue to be long-term code committers on
a variety of Apache projects. Some active program participants have even been elected as members of
the ASF.
This year, dozens of Apache projects have committed to mentoring GSoC students. They include
Accumulo, Airavata, Axiom, Bloodhound, CloudStack, CouchDB, Crunch, Giraph, Gora, Hama, Hive, Isis,
Jena, Lenya, Lucene, Mahout, ManifoldCF, Mesos, Nutch, ODE, OpenMeetings, OpenOffice, Pig, Rat, SIS,
Sling, Solr, Stanbol, Tika, VXQuery, Wookie, XalanJ, and XercesJ.

Make clear that this list isn't exclusive. Maybe "They include but are not limited to..."?

"The ComDev team recommends GSoC students to discuss application ideas directly with all Apache
project(s) of interest before the official start of the application phase on Monday, 22 April 2013."

Post by Sally Khudairi
For more information on Apache Community Development and to get involved with Apache projects for
GSoC, visit http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html
Details on the Google Summer of Code is available at
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013
About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees nearly one hundred fifty leading Open
Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server â the world's most popular Web server software.
Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way", more than 400 individual Members
and 3,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software,
benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the
Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives,
and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US
501(3)(c) not-for-profit charity, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including
AMD, Basis Technology, Citrix, Cloudera, Facebook, Go Daddy, Google, HP, Hortonworks, Huawei, IBM,
InMotion Hosting, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, PSW Group, SpringSource/VMware, WANdisco, and Yahoo!.
"Apache", "Accumulo", "Apache Accumulo", "Airavata", "Apache Airavata", "Axiom", "Apache Axiom",
"Bloodhound", "Apache Bloodhound", "CloudStack", "Apache CloudStack", "CouchDB", "Apache CouchDB",
"Crunch", "Apache Crunch", "Giraph", "Apache Giraph", "Gora", "Apache Gora", "Hama", "Apache Hama",
"Hive", "Apache Hive", "Isis", "Apache Isis", "Jena", "Apache Jena", "Lenya", "Apache Lenya",
"Lucene", "Apache Lucene", "Mahout", "Apache Mahout", "ManifoldCF", "Apache ManifoldCF", "Mesos",
"Apache Mesos", "Nutch", "Apache Nutch", "ODE", "Apache ODE", "OpenMeetings", "Apache OpenMeetings",
"OpenOffice", "Apache OpenOffice", "Pig", "Apache Pig", "Rat", "Apache Rat", "SIS", "Apache SIS",
"Sling", "Apache Sling", "Solr", "Apache Solr", "Stanbol", "Apache Stanbol", "Tika", "Apache Tika",
"VXQuery", "Apache VXQuery", "Wookie", "Apache Wookie", "XalanJ", "Apache XalanJ", "XercesJ",
"Apache XercesJ", and "ApacheCon" are registered trademarks or trademarks of the Apache Software
Foundation in the United States and/or other countries. All other brands and trademarks are the
property of their respective owners.
# # #
Sally Khudairi
Vice President
The Apache Software Foundation
+1 617 921 8656
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*Sent:* Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 8:42
*Subject:* Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013
Perfect. Thank you, Uli!
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*Sent:* Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 8:36
*Subject:* Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013
Accumulo, Airavata, Axiom, Bloodhound, CloudStack, Lenya, OpenOffice, ManifoldCF, CouchDB,
Crunch,
Giraph, Gora, Hama, Hive, Isis, Jena, Lucene, Mahout, Mesos, Nutch, Ode, Openmeetings, Pig, Rat,
SIS, Sling, Solr, Stanbol, Tika, VXQuery, Wookie, XalanJ, XercesJ
It isn't exclusive, these are simply the projects that have submitted project ideas. Every
student
is free to approach any project and propose an idea (which is also highly encouraged).
Cheers,
Uli

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
Any project can be involved. The ones listed at [4] have explicitly submitted ideas for

students but

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
that doesn't mean students can't approach projects not mentioned there. I'll compile a

list from [4]

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
for you.
Uli

Post by Sally Khudairi
One more thing: do we have a list of Apache projects that will be involved here?
Thanks,
Sally

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

if we could

Post by Sally Khudairi
get this out asap. Is there anything else you need?
Uli
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Apache Software Foundation accepted as a mentoring organization for Google

Summer of

Post by Sally Khudairi
Code 2012
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:21:40 +0100
Hey Sally & Co.,
this year we won't forget to provide you with some infos on our GSoC endeavours.

Yesterday, we have

Post by Sally Khudairi
been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013 [1],[2]. This

means that

Post by Sally Khudairi
over the summer, our committers will mentor students that are sponsored by Google and

will be

Post by Sally Khudairi
working on our projects. The program helps us not only to get some code written but

also to

Post by Sally Khudairi
introduce students into open source development and hopefully recruit some new

long-term committers.

Post by Sally Khudairi
More information on the program is available at [3]. Students are now encouraged to

discuss ideas

Post by Sally Khudairi
with the respective projects and begin drafting proposals. An extensive list of

already existing

Post by Sally Khudairi
project ideas is available at [4]. The actual application phase is from April 24 until

May 3, coding

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2013/help_page

Post by Sally Khudairi
[4] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2013ideas
[5] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2013

Ulrich Stärk

2013-04-09 15:08:52 UTC

12 seems good. Let's wait a few more minutes if anybody wants to add something.

Uli

Post by Sally Khudairi
Ack. Thanks, Uli.
Any other comments? Do you still want to go live at 12Noon-ish ET?
If I get the final signoff soon, I might be able to get it out at 11.30am.
Cheers,
Sally
[From the mobile; kindly excuse spelling/spacing/auto-correct anomalies]
----- Reply message -----
Subject: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013
Date: Tue, Apr 9, 2013 10:42 AM
Looks fine to me except for two small things.
Comments inline.
Uli

On it. Thanks for the reminder.

Make clear that this list isn't exclusive. Maybe "They include but are not limited to..."?

"The ComDev team recommends GSoC students to discuss application ideas directly with all Apache
project(s) of interest before the official start of the application phase on Monday, 22 April 2013."

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
Any project can be involved. The ones listed at [4] have explicitly submitted ideas for

students but

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
that doesn't mean students can't approach projects not mentioned there. I'll compile a

list from [4]

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
for you.
Uli

Post by Sally Khudairi
One more thing: do we have a list of Apache projects that will be involved here?
Thanks,
Sally

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

if we could

Post by Sally Khudairi
get this out asap. Is there anything else you need?
Uli
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Apache Software Foundation accepted as a mentoring organization for Google

Summer of

Post by Sally Khudairi
Code 2012
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:21:40 +0100
Hey Sally & Co.,
this year we won't forget to provide you with some infos on our GSoC endeavours.

Yesterday, we have

Post by Sally Khudairi
been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013 [1],[2]. This

means that

Post by Sally Khudairi
over the summer, our committers will mentor students that are sponsored by Google and

will be

Post by Sally Khudairi
working on our projects. The program helps us not only to get some code written but

also to

Post by Sally Khudairi
introduce students into open source development and hopefully recruit some new

long-term committers.

Post by Sally Khudairi
More information on the program is available at [3]. Students are now encouraged to

discuss ideas

Post by Sally Khudairi
with the respective projects and begin drafting proposals. An extensive list of

already existing

Post by Sally Khudairi
project ideas is available at [4]. The actual application phase is from April 24 until

May 3, coding

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2013/help_page

Post by Sally Khudairi
[4] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2013ideas
[5] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2013

Sally Khudairi

2013-04-09 16:28:59 UTC

Hello again --we are live:

-PR Newswire http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-apache-software-foundation-community-development-project-welcomes-student-proposals-for-google-summer-of-code-2013-202143091.html
-ASF Foundation Blog http://s.apache.org/AVV
-@TheASF Twitter feed https://twitter.com/TheASF/status/321653839973466112

...as well to announce@ and our dedicated media/analyst list. This is also on the apache.org homepage.

Thanks, everyone, for your help!

-Sally

----- Original Message -----

Sent: Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 11:08
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013
12 seems good. Let's wait a few more minutes if anybody wants to add something.
Uli

2013

Post by Sally Khudairi
Date: Tue, Apr 9, 2013 10:42 AM
Looks fine to me except for two small things.
Comments inline.
Uli

Post by Sally Khudairi
Hi everyone --I've drafted up an announcement that I can send out

by 12 Noon ET today, if not sooner.

Post by Sally Khudairi
Please review the draft below and forward any corrections/additions no

later than 11.15AM ET.

Post by Sally Khudairi
Thanks for this,
Sally
...also, we need to update http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html :^)

On it. Thanks for the reminder.

Post by Sally Khudairi
= = =
The Apache Software Foundation Community Development Project Welcomes

Student Proposals for Google

Post by Sally Khudairi
Summer of Code 2013
Hundreds of students mentored in “The Apache Way” of Open Source

community leadership

Post by Sally Khudairi
Forest Hill, MD –9 April 2013– The Apache Software Foundation

(ASF)'s Community Development (ComDev)

Post by Sally Khudairi
project today announced its acceptance into the Google Summer of Code

(GsoC) as a mentoring

Post by Sally Khudairi
organization for the eighth consecutive year.
The ComDev team helps newcomers learn about the ASF's projects,

governance, and activities, and

Post by Sally Khudairi
guides them in becoming part of the meritocratic, all-volunteer Apache

community.

Post by Sally Khudairi
Established in 2005, the Google Summer of Code offers student

developers from around the word

Post by Sally Khudairi
stipends to write code for various Open Source software projects over a

three month period.

Post by Sally Khudairi
The ASF has actively participated in GSoC since the program's

inception, mentoring 30-45 students

Post by Sally Khudairi
each year, and providing exposure to real-world software and community

development “The Apache Way”.

Post by Sally Khudairi
Countless GSoC students mentored by the Apache community continue to be

long-term code committers on

Post by Sally Khudairi
a variety of Apache projects. Some active program participants have

even been elected as members of

Post by Sally Khudairi
the ASF.

This year, dozens of Apache projects have committed to mentoring GSoC

students. They include

Post by Sally Khudairi
Accumulo, Airavata, Axiom, Bloodhound, CloudStack, CouchDB, Crunch,

Giraph, Gora, Hama, Hive, Isis,

Post by Sally Khudairi
Jena, Lenya, Lucene, Mahout, ManifoldCF, Mesos, Nutch, ODE,

OpenMeetings, OpenOffice, Pig, Rat, SIS,

Post by Sally Khudairi
Sling, Solr, Stanbol, Tika, VXQuery, Wookie, XalanJ, and XercesJ.

Make clear that this list isn't exclusive. Maybe "They include but

are not limited to..."?

Post by Sally Khudairi
The ComDev team invite GSoC students to propose application ideas

directly with all Apache

Post by Sally Khudairi
project(s) of interest no later than Sunday, 21 April 2013. The

ASF's more than 100 Top-Level

Post by Sally Khudairi
Projects and nearly three dozen initiatives in the Apache Incubator are

listed at

Post by Sally Khudairi
http://www.apache.org/ and http://incubator.apache.org/ respectively.

"The ComDev team recommends GSoC students to discuss application ideas

directly with all Apache

Post by Sally Khudairi
project(s) of interest before the official start of the application phase

on Monday, 22 April 2013."

Post by Sally Khudairi
For more information on Apache Community Development and to get

involved with Apache projects for

hundred fifty leading Open

Post by Sally Khudairi
Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server — the world's most

popular Web server software.

Post by Sally Khudairi
Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as "The Apache

Way", more than 400 individual Members

Post by Sally Khudairi
and 3,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely

available enterprise-grade software,

Post by Sally Khudairi
benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions

are distributed under the

Post by Sally Khudairi
Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing

lists, mentoring initiatives,

Post by Sally Khudairi
and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference,

trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US

Post by Sally Khudairi
501(3)(c) not-for-profit charity, funded by individual donations and

corporate sponsors including

Post by Sally Khudairi
AMD, Basis Technology, Citrix, Cloudera, Facebook, Go Daddy, Google,

HP, Hortonworks, Huawei, IBM,

Post by Sally Khudairi
InMotion Hosting, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, PSW Group,

SpringSource/VMware, WANdisco, and Yahoo!.
Twitter.

Post by Sally Khudairi
"Apache", "Accumulo", "Apache Accumulo",

"Airavata", "Apache Airavata", "Axiom",
"Apache Axiom",

Post by Sally Khudairi
"Bloodhound", "Apache Bloodhound",

"CloudStack", "Apache CloudStack", "CouchDB",
"Apache CouchDB",

Post by Sally Khudairi
"Crunch", "Apache Crunch", "Giraph",

"Apache Giraph", "Gora", "Apache Gora",
"Hama", "Apache Hama",

Post by Sally Khudairi
"Hive", "Apache Hive", "Isis",

"Apache Isis", "Jena", "Apache Jena",
"Lenya", "Apache Lenya",

Post by Sally Khudairi
"Lucene", "Apache Lucene", "Mahout",

"Apache Mahout", "ManifoldCF", "Apache
ManifoldCF", "Mesos",

Post by Sally Khudairi
"Apache Mesos", "Nutch", "Apache Nutch",

"ODE", "Apache ODE", "OpenMeetings", "Apache
OpenMeetings",

Post by Sally Khudairi
"OpenOffice", "Apache OpenOffice", "Pig",

"Apache Pig", "Rat", "Apache Rat",
"SIS", "Apache SIS",

Post by Sally Khudairi
"Sling", "Apache Sling", "Solr",

"Apache Solr", "Stanbol", "Apache Stanbol",
"Tika", "Apache Tika",

Post by Sally Khudairi
"VXQuery", "Apache VXQuery", "Wookie",

"Apache Wookie", "XalanJ", "Apache XalanJ",
"XercesJ",

Post by Sally Khudairi
"Apache XercesJ", and "ApacheCon" are registered

trademarks or trademarks of the Apache Software

Post by Sally Khudairi
Foundation in the United States and/or other countries. All other

brands and trademarks are the

Post by Sally Khudairi
property of their respective owners.
# # #
Sally Khudairi
Vice President
The Apache Software Foundation
+1 617 921 8656

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Post by Sally Khudairi
*Sent:* Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 8:42
*Subject:* Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google

Summer of Code 2013

Post by Sally Khudairi
Perfect. Thank you, Uli!

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Post by Sally Khudairi
*Sent:* Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 8:36
*Subject:* Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for

Google Summer of Code 2013

Post by Sally Khudairi
Accumulo, Airavata, Axiom, Bloodhound, CloudStack, Lenya,

OpenOffice, ManifoldCF, CouchDB,

Post by Sally Khudairi
Crunch,
Giraph, Gora, Hama, Hive, Isis, Jena, Lucene, Mahout, Mesos,

Nutch, Ode, Openmeetings, Pig, Rat,

Post by Sally Khudairi
SIS, Sling, Solr, Stanbol, Tika, VXQuery, Wookie, XalanJ,

XercesJ

Post by Sally Khudairi
It isn't exclusive, these are simply the projects that have

submitted project ideas. Every

Post by Sally Khudairi
student
is free to approach any project and propose an idea (which is

also highly encouraged).

Post by Sally Khudairi
Cheers,
Uli
> Any project can be involved. The ones listed at [4] have

explicitly submitted ideas for

Post by Sally Khudairi
students but
> that doesn't mean students can't approach projects

not mentioned there. I'll compile a

Post by Sally Khudairi
list from [4]
> for you.
>
> Uli
>
>> One more thing: do we have a list of Apache projects

that will be involved here?

Post by Sally Khudairi
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sally
>>
>>
>>

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Post by Sally Khudairi
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 8:11
>> *Subject:* ASF accepted as a mentoring organization

for Google Summer of Code 2013

Post by Sally Khudairi
>>
>> Recycling last years email on the topic. All dates

and links updated. It would be cool

Post by Sally Khudairi
if we could
>> get this out asap. Is there anything else you need?
>>
>> Uli
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Apache Software Foundation accepted as a

mentoring organization for Google

Post by Sally Khudairi
Summer of
>> Code 2012
>> Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:21:40 +0100
>>
>> Hey Sally & Co.,
>>
>> this year we won't forget to provide you with

some infos on our GSoC endeavours.

Post by Sally Khudairi
Yesterday, we have
>> been accepted as a mentoring organization for

Google Summer of Code 2013 [1],[2]. This

Post by Sally Khudairi
means that
>> over the summer, our committers will mentor

students that are sponsored by Google and

Post by Sally Khudairi
will be
>> working on our projects. The program helps us not

only to get some code written but

Post by Sally Khudairi
also to
>> introduce students into open source development and

hopefully recruit some new

Post by Sally Khudairi
long-term committers.
>> More information on the program is available at

[3]. Students are now encouraged to

Post by Sally Khudairi
discuss ideas
>> with the respective projects and begin drafting

proposals. An extensive list of

Post by Sally Khudairi
already existing
>> project ideas is available at [4]. The actual

application phase is from April 24 until

Post by Sally Khudairi
May 3, coding
>> will take place from June 17 to September 23. See

[5] for the detailed timeline.

Post by Sally Khudairi
>>
>> Can you please run any press release past us
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Uli
>>
>> [1]

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013

Post by Sally Khudairi
>> [2]

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/apache

Post by Sally Khudairi
>> [3]

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2013/help_page

Post by Sally Khudairi
>> [4] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2013ideas
>> [5]

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2013

Post by Sally Khudairi
>>
>>
>>
>>

Ulrich Stärk

2013-04-09 17:06:41 UTC

Very cool! Thanks a ton Sally!

Uli

-PR Newswire http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-apache-software-foundation-community-development-project-welcomes-student-proposals-for-google-summer-of-code-2013-202143091.html
-ASF Foundation Blog http://s.apache.org/AVV
Thanks, everyone, for your help!
-Sally
----- Original Message -----

2013

Post by Sally Khudairi
Date: Tue, Apr 9, 2013 10:42 AM
Looks fine to me except for two small things.
Comments inline.
Uli

Post by Sally Khudairi
Hi everyone --I've drafted up an announcement that I can send out

by 12 Noon ET today, if not sooner.

Post by Sally Khudairi
Please review the draft below and forward any corrections/additions no

later than 11.15AM ET.

Post by Sally Khudairi
Thanks for this,
Sally
...also, we need to update http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html :^)

On it. Thanks for the reminder.

Post by Sally Khudairi
= = =
The Apache Software Foundation Community Development Project Welcomes

Student Proposals for Google

Post by Sally Khudairi
Summer of Code 2013
Hundreds of students mentored in “The Apache Way” of Open Source

community leadership

Post by Sally Khudairi
Forest Hill, MD –9 April 2013– The Apache Software Foundation

(ASF)'s Community Development (ComDev)

Post by Sally Khudairi
project today announced its acceptance into the Google Summer of Code

(GsoC) as a mentoring

Post by Sally Khudairi
organization for the eighth consecutive year.
The ComDev team helps newcomers learn about the ASF's projects,

governance, and activities, and

Post by Sally Khudairi
guides them in becoming part of the meritocratic, all-volunteer Apache

community.

Post by Sally Khudairi
Established in 2005, the Google Summer of Code offers student

developers from around the word

Post by Sally Khudairi
stipends to write code for various Open Source software projects over a

three month period.

Post by Sally Khudairi
The ASF has actively participated in GSoC since the program's

inception, mentoring 30-45 students

Post by Sally Khudairi
each year, and providing exposure to real-world software and community

development “The Apache Way”.

Post by Sally Khudairi
Countless GSoC students mentored by the Apache community continue to be

long-term code committers on

Post by Sally Khudairi
a variety of Apache projects. Some active program participants have

even been elected as members of

Post by Sally Khudairi
the ASF.
This year, dozens of Apache projects have committed to mentoring GSoC

students. They include

Post by Sally Khudairi
Accumulo, Airavata, Axiom, Bloodhound, CloudStack, CouchDB, Crunch,

Giraph, Gora, Hama, Hive, Isis,

Post by Sally Khudairi
Jena, Lenya, Lucene, Mahout, ManifoldCF, Mesos, Nutch, ODE,

OpenMeetings, OpenOffice, Pig, Rat, SIS,

Post by Sally Khudairi
Sling, Solr, Stanbol, Tika, VXQuery, Wookie, XalanJ, and XercesJ.

Make clear that this list isn't exclusive. Maybe "They include but

are not limited to..."?

Post by Sally Khudairi
The ComDev team invite GSoC students to propose application ideas

directly with all Apache

Post by Sally Khudairi
project(s) of interest no later than Sunday, 21 April 2013. The

ASF's more than 100 Top-Level

Post by Sally Khudairi
Projects and nearly three dozen initiatives in the Apache Incubator are

listed at

Post by Sally Khudairi
http://www.apache.org/ and http://incubator.apache.org/ respectively.

"The ComDev team recommends GSoC students to discuss application ideas

directly with all Apache

Post by Sally Khudairi
project(s) of interest before the official start of the application phase

on Monday, 22 April 2013."

Post by Sally Khudairi
For more information on Apache Community Development and to get

involved with Apache projects for

hundred fifty leading Open

Post by Sally Khudairi
Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server — the world's most

popular Web server software.

Post by Sally Khudairi
Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as "The Apache

Way", more than 400 individual Members

Post by Sally Khudairi
and 3,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely

available enterprise-grade software,

Post by Sally Khudairi
benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions

are distributed under the

Post by Sally Khudairi
Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing

lists, mentoring initiatives,

Post by Sally Khudairi
and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference,

trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US

Post by Sally Khudairi
501(3)(c) not-for-profit charity, funded by individual donations and

corporate sponsors including

Post by Sally Khudairi
AMD, Basis Technology, Citrix, Cloudera, Facebook, Go Daddy, Google,

HP, Hortonworks, Huawei, IBM,

Post by Sally Khudairi
InMotion Hosting, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, PSW Group,

SpringSource/VMware, WANdisco, and Yahoo!.
Twitter.

Post by Sally Khudairi
"Apache", "Accumulo", "Apache Accumulo",

"Airavata", "Apache Airavata", "Axiom",
"Apache Axiom",

Post by Sally Khudairi
"Bloodhound", "Apache Bloodhound",

"CloudStack", "Apache CloudStack", "CouchDB",
"Apache CouchDB",

Post by Sally Khudairi
"Crunch", "Apache Crunch", "Giraph",

"Apache Giraph", "Gora", "Apache Gora",
"Hama", "Apache Hama",

Post by Sally Khudairi
"Hive", "Apache Hive", "Isis",

"Apache Isis", "Jena", "Apache Jena",
"Lenya", "Apache Lenya",

Post by Sally Khudairi
"Lucene", "Apache Lucene", "Mahout",

"Apache Mahout", "ManifoldCF", "Apache
ManifoldCF", "Mesos",

Post by Sally Khudairi
"Apache Mesos", "Nutch", "Apache Nutch",

"ODE", "Apache ODE", "OpenMeetings", "Apache
OpenMeetings",

Post by Sally Khudairi
"OpenOffice", "Apache OpenOffice", "Pig",

"Apache Pig", "Rat", "Apache Rat",
"SIS", "Apache SIS",

Post by Sally Khudairi
"Sling", "Apache Sling", "Solr",

"Apache Solr", "Stanbol", "Apache Stanbol",
"Tika", "Apache Tika",

Post by Sally Khudairi
"VXQuery", "Apache VXQuery", "Wookie",

"Apache Wookie", "XalanJ", "Apache XalanJ",
"XercesJ",

Post by Sally Khudairi
"Apache XercesJ", and "ApacheCon" are registered

trademarks or trademarks of the Apache Software

Post by Sally Khudairi
Foundation in the United States and/or other countries. All other

brands and trademarks are the

Post by Sally Khudairi
property of their respective owners.
# # #
Sally Khudairi
Vice President
The Apache Software Foundation
+1 617 921 8656

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Post by Sally Khudairi
*Sent:* Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 8:42
*Subject:* Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google

Summer of Code 2013

Post by Sally Khudairi
Perfect. Thank you, Uli!

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Post by Sally Khudairi
*Sent:* Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 8:36
*Subject:* Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for

Google Summer of Code 2013

Post by Sally Khudairi
Accumulo, Airavata, Axiom, Bloodhound, CloudStack, Lenya,

OpenOffice, ManifoldCF, CouchDB,

Post by Sally Khudairi
Crunch,
Giraph, Gora, Hama, Hive, Isis, Jena, Lucene, Mahout, Mesos,

Nutch, Ode, Openmeetings, Pig, Rat,

Post by Sally Khudairi
SIS, Sling, Solr, Stanbol, Tika, VXQuery, Wookie, XalanJ,

XercesJ

Post by Sally Khudairi
It isn't exclusive, these are simply the projects that have

submitted project ideas. Every

Post by Sally Khudairi
student
is free to approach any project and propose an idea (which is

also highly encouraged).

Post by Sally Khudairi
Cheers,
Uli

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
Any project can be involved. The ones listed at [4] have

explicitly submitted ideas for

Post by Sally Khudairi
students but

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
that doesn't mean students can't approach projects

not mentioned there. I'll compile a

Post by Sally Khudairi
list from [4]

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
for you.
Uli

Post by Sally Khudairi
One more thing: do we have a list of Apache projects

that will be involved here?

Post by Sally Khudairi
Thanks,
Sally

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Post by Sally Khudairi
*Sent:* Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 8:11
*Subject:* ASF accepted as a mentoring organization

for Google Summer of Code 2013

Post by Sally Khudairi
Recycling last years email on the topic. All dates

and links updated. It would be cool

Post by Sally Khudairi
if we could

Post by Sally Khudairi
get this out asap. Is there anything else you need?
Uli
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Apache Software Foundation accepted as a

mentoring organization for Google

Post by Sally Khudairi
Summer of

Post by Sally Khudairi
Code 2012
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:21:40 +0100
Hey Sally & Co.,
this year we won't forget to provide you with

some infos on our GSoC endeavours.

Post by Sally Khudairi
Yesterday, we have

Post by Sally Khudairi
been accepted as a mentoring organization for

Google Summer of Code 2013 [1],[2]. This

Post by Sally Khudairi
means that

Post by Sally Khudairi
over the summer, our committers will mentor

students that are sponsored by Google and

Post by Sally Khudairi
will be

Post by Sally Khudairi
working on our projects. The program helps us not

only to get some code written but

Post by Sally Khudairi
also to

Post by Sally Khudairi
introduce students into open source development and

hopefully recruit some new

Post by Sally Khudairi
long-term committers.

Post by Sally Khudairi
More information on the program is available at

[3]. Students are now encouraged to

Post by Sally Khudairi
discuss ideas

Post by Sally Khudairi
with the respective projects and begin drafting

proposals. An extensive list of

Post by Sally Khudairi
already existing

Post by Sally Khudairi
project ideas is available at [4]. The actual

application phase is from April 24 until

Post by Sally Khudairi
May 3, coding

Post by Sally Khudairi
will take place from June 17 to September 23. See

[5] for the detailed timeline.

Post by Sally Khudairi
Can you please run any press release past us
Thanks,
Uli
[1]

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013

Post by Sally Khudairi
[2]

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/apache

Post by Sally Khudairi
[3]

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2013/help_page

Post by Sally Khudairi
[4] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2013ideas
[5]

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2013

Dave Fisher

2013-04-09 23:52:52 UTC

On it. Thanks for the reminder.

Make clear that this list isn't exclusive. Maybe "They include but are not limited to..."?

Not that it should matter for this, but some of these projects are Incubator podlings.

"The ComDev team recommends GSoC students to discuss application ideas directly with all Apache
project(s) of interest before the official start of the application phase on Monday, 22 April 2013."

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
Any project can be involved. The ones listed at [4] have explicitly submitted ideas for

students but

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
that doesn't mean students can't approach projects not mentioned there. I'll compile a

list from [4]

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
for you.
Uli

Post by Sally Khudairi
One more thing: do we have a list of Apache projects that will be involved here?
Thanks,
Sally

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

if we could

Post by Sally Khudairi
get this out asap. Is there anything else you need?
Uli
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Apache Software Foundation accepted as a mentoring organization for Google

Summer of

Post by Sally Khudairi
Code 2012
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:21:40 +0100
Hey Sally & Co.,
this year we won't forget to provide you with some infos on our GSoC endeavours.

Yesterday, we have

Post by Sally Khudairi
been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013 [1],[2]. This

means that

Post by Sally Khudairi
over the summer, our committers will mentor students that are sponsored by Google and

will be

Post by Sally Khudairi
working on our projects. The program helps us not only to get some code written but

also to

Post by Sally Khudairi
introduce students into open source development and hopefully recruit some new

long-term committers.

Post by Sally Khudairi
More information on the program is available at [3]. Students are now encouraged to

discuss ideas

Post by Sally Khudairi
with the respective projects and begin drafting proposals. An extensive list of

already existing

Post by Sally Khudairi
project ideas is available at [4]. The actual application phase is from April 24 until

May 3, coding

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2013/help_page

Post by Sally Khudairi
[4] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2013ideas
[5] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2013

Sally Khudairi

2013-04-09 14:57:43 UTC

Ah! Thank you, Gary!

[From the mobile; kindly excuse spelling/spacing/auto-correct anomalies]

----- Reply message -----
From: "Gary Martin" <***@wandisco.com>
To: <***@community.apache.org>
Cc: "Ulrich StÃ€rk" <***@spielviel.de>, "Sally Khudairi" <***@apache.org>, "Sally Khudairi" <***@yahoo.com>, "***@apache.org" <***@apache.org>
Subject: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013
Date: Tue, Apr 9, 2013 10:47 AM

Just in case it is missed I should add that there appears to be a
mistake in the paragraph beginning "Established in 2005," where "around
the word" should read "around the world".

Cheers
Gary

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
Looks fine to me except for two small things.
Comments inline.
Uli

On it. Thanks for the reminder.

Post by Sally Khudairi
= = =
The Apache Software Foundation Community Development Project Welcomes Student Proposals for Google
Summer of Code 2013
Hundreds of students mentored in âThe Apache Wayâ of Open Source community leadership
Forest Hill, MD â9 April 2013â The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)'s Community Development (ComDev)
project today announced its acceptance into the Google Summer of Code (GsoC) as a mentoring
organization for the eighth consecutive year.
The ComDev team helps newcomers learn about the ASF's projects, governance, and activities, and
guides them in becoming part of the meritocratic, all-volunteer Apache community.
Established in 2005, the Google Summer of Code offers student developers from around the word
stipends to write code for various Open Source software projects over a three month period.
The ASF has actively participated in GSoC since the program's inception, mentoring 30-45 students
each year, and providing exposure to real-world software and community development âThe Apache Wayâ.
Countless GSoC students mentored by the Apache community continue to be long-term code committers on
a variety of Apache projects. Some active program participants have even been elected as members of
the ASF.
This year, dozens of Apache projects have committed to mentoring GSoC students. They include
Accumulo, Airavata, Axiom, Bloodhound, CloudStack, CouchDB, Crunch, Giraph, Gora, Hama, Hive, Isis,
Jena, Lenya, Lucene, Mahout, ManifoldCF, Mesos, Nutch, ODE, OpenMeetings, OpenOffice, Pig, Rat, SIS,
Sling, Solr, Stanbol, Tika, VXQuery, Wookie, XalanJ, and XercesJ.

Make clear that this list isn't exclusive. Maybe "They include but are not limited to..."?

"The ComDev team recommends GSoC students to discuss application ideas directly with all Apache
project(s) of interest before the official start of the application phase on Monday, 22 April 2013."

Post by Sally Khudairi
For more information on Apache Community Development and to get involved with Apache projects for
GSoC, visit http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html
Details on the Google Summer of Code is available at
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013
About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees nearly one hundred fifty leading Open
Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server â the world's most popular Web server software.
Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way", more than 400 individual Members
and 3,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software,
benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the
Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives,
and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US
501(3)(c) not-for-profit charity, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including
AMD, Basis Technology, Citrix, Cloudera, Facebook, Go Daddy, Google, HP, Hortonworks, Huawei, IBM,
InMotion Hosting, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, PSW Group, SpringSource/VMware, WANdisco, and Yahoo!.
"Apache", "Accumulo", "Apache Accumulo", "Airavata", "Apache Airavata", "Axiom", "Apache Axiom",
"Bloodhound", "Apache Bloodhound", "CloudStack", "Apache CloudStack", "CouchDB", "Apache CouchDB",
"Crunch", "Apache Crunch", "Giraph", "Apache Giraph", "Gora", "Apache Gora", "Hama", "Apache Hama",
"Hive", "Apache Hive", "Isis", "Apache Isis", "Jena", "Apache Jena", "Lenya", "Apache Lenya",
"Lucene", "Apache Lucene", "Mahout", "Apache Mahout", "ManifoldCF", "Apache ManifoldCF", "Mesos",
"Apache Mesos", "Nutch", "Apache Nutch", "ODE", "Apache ODE", "OpenMeetings", "Apache OpenMeetings",
"OpenOffice", "Apache OpenOffice", "Pig", "Apache Pig", "Rat", "Apache Rat", "SIS", "Apache SIS",
"Sling", "Apache Sling", "Solr", "Apache Solr", "Stanbol", "Apache Stanbol", "Tika", "Apache Tika",
"VXQuery", "Apache VXQuery", "Wookie", "Apache Wookie", "XalanJ", "Apache XalanJ", "XercesJ",
"Apache XercesJ", and "ApacheCon" are registered trademarks or trademarks of the Apache Software
Foundation in the United States and/or other countries. All other brands and trademarks are the
property of their respective owners.
# # #
Sally Khudairi
Vice President
The Apache Software Foundation
+1 617 921 8656
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*Sent:* Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 8:42
*Subject:* Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013
Perfect. Thank you, Uli!
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*Sent:* Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 8:36
*Subject:* Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013
Accumulo, Airavata, Axiom, Bloodhound, CloudStack, Lenya, OpenOffice, ManifoldCF, CouchDB,
Crunch,
Giraph, Gora, Hama, Hive, Isis, Jena, Lucene, Mahout, Mesos, Nutch, Ode, Openmeetings, Pig, Rat,
SIS, Sling, Solr, Stanbol, Tika, VXQuery, Wookie, XalanJ, XercesJ
It isn't exclusive, these are simply the projects that have submitted project ideas. Every
student
is free to approach any project and propose an idea (which is also highly encouraged).
Cheers,
Uli

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
Any project can be involved. The ones listed at [4] have explicitly submitted ideas for

students but

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
that doesn't mean students can't approach projects not mentioned there. I'll compile a

list from [4]

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
for you.
Uli

Post by Sally Khudairi
One more thing: do we have a list of Apache projects that will be involved here?
Thanks,
Sally

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

if we could

Post by Sally Khudairi
get this out asap. Is there anything else you need?
Uli
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Apache Software Foundation accepted as a mentoring organization for Google

Summer of

Post by Sally Khudairi
Code 2012
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:21:40 +0100
Hey Sally & Co.,
this year we won't forget to provide you with some infos on our GSoC endeavours.

Yesterday, we have

Post by Sally Khudairi
been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013 [1],[2]. This

means that

Post by Sally Khudairi
over the summer, our committers will mentor students that are sponsored by Google and

will be

Post by Sally Khudairi
working on our projects. The program helps us not only to get some code written but

also to

Post by Sally Khudairi
introduce students into open source development and hopefully recruit some new

long-term committers.

Post by Sally Khudairi
More information on the program is available at [3]. Students are now encouraged to

discuss ideas

Post by Sally Khudairi
with the respective projects and begin drafting proposals. An extensive list of

already existing

Post by Sally Khudairi
project ideas is available at [4]. The actual application phase is from April 24 until

May 3, coding

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2013/help_page

Post by Sally Khudairi
[4] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2013ideas
[5] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2013

Sally Khudairi

2013-04-09 17:13:17 UTC

Of course! You're very welcome :-)

[From the mobile; kindly excuse spelling/spacing/auto-correct anomalies]

----- Reply message -----
From: "Ulrich StÃ€rk" <***@spielviel.de>
To: "Sally Khudairi" <***@yahoo.com>
Cc: "***@community.apache.org" <***@community.apache.org>, "Sally Khudairi" <***@apache.org>, "***@apache.org" <***@apache.org>
Subject: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013
Date: Tue, Apr 9, 2013 1:06 PM

Very cool! Thanks a ton Sally!

Uli

2013

Post by Sally Khudairi
Date: Tue, Apr 9, 2013 10:42 AM
Looks fine to me except for two small things.
Comments inline.
Uli

Post by Sally Khudairi
Hi everyone --I've drafted up an announcement that I can send out

by 12 Noon ET today, if not sooner.

Post by Sally Khudairi
Please review the draft below and forward any corrections/additions no

later than 11.15AM ET.

Post by Sally Khudairi
Thanks for this,
Sally
...also, we need to update http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html :^)

On it. Thanks for the reminder.

Post by Sally Khudairi
= = =
The Apache Software Foundation Community Development Project Welcomes

Student Proposals for Google

Post by Sally Khudairi
Summer of Code 2013
Hundreds of students mentored in âThe Apache Wayâ of Open Source

community leadership

Post by Sally Khudairi
Forest Hill, MD â9 April 2013â The Apache Software Foundation

(ASF)'s Community Development (ComDev)

Post by Sally Khudairi
project today announced its acceptance into the Google Summer of Code

(GsoC) as a mentoring

Post by Sally Khudairi
organization for the eighth consecutive year.
The ComDev team helps newcomers learn about the ASF's projects,

governance, and activities, and

Post by Sally Khudairi
guides them in becoming part of the meritocratic, all-volunteer Apache

community.

Post by Sally Khudairi
Established in 2005, the Google Summer of Code offers student

developers from around the word

Post by Sally Khudairi
stipends to write code for various Open Source software projects over a

three month period.

Post by Sally Khudairi
The ASF has actively participated in GSoC since the program's

inception, mentoring 30-45 students

Post by Sally Khudairi
each year, and providing exposure to real-world software and community

development âThe Apache Wayâ.

Post by Sally Khudairi
Countless GSoC students mentored by the Apache community continue to be

long-term code committers on

Post by Sally Khudairi
a variety of Apache projects. Some active program participants have

even been elected as members of

Post by Sally Khudairi
the ASF.
This year, dozens of Apache projects have committed to mentoring GSoC

students. They include

Post by Sally Khudairi
Accumulo, Airavata, Axiom, Bloodhound, CloudStack, CouchDB, Crunch,

Giraph, Gora, Hama, Hive, Isis,

Post by Sally Khudairi
Jena, Lenya, Lucene, Mahout, ManifoldCF, Mesos, Nutch, ODE,

OpenMeetings, OpenOffice, Pig, Rat, SIS,

Post by Sally Khudairi
Sling, Solr, Stanbol, Tika, VXQuery, Wookie, XalanJ, and XercesJ.

Make clear that this list isn't exclusive. Maybe "They include but

are not limited to..."?

Post by Sally Khudairi
The ComDev team invite GSoC students to propose application ideas

directly with all Apache

Post by Sally Khudairi
project(s) of interest no later than Sunday, 21 April 2013. The

ASF's more than 100 Top-Level

Post by Sally Khudairi
Projects and nearly three dozen initiatives in the Apache Incubator are

listed at

Post by Sally Khudairi
http://www.apache.org/ and http://incubator.apache.org/ respectively.

"The ComDev team recommends GSoC students to discuss application ideas

directly with all Apache

Post by Sally Khudairi
project(s) of interest before the official start of the application phase

on Monday, 22 April 2013."

Post by Sally Khudairi
For more information on Apache Community Development and to get

involved with Apache projects for

hundred fifty leading Open

Post by Sally Khudairi
Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server â the world's most

popular Web server software.

Post by Sally Khudairi
Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as "The Apache

Way", more than 400 individual Members

Post by Sally Khudairi
and 3,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely

available enterprise-grade software,

Post by Sally Khudairi
benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions

are distributed under the

Post by Sally Khudairi
Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing

lists, mentoring initiatives,

Post by Sally Khudairi
and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference,

trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US

Post by Sally Khudairi
501(3)(c) not-for-profit charity, funded by individual donations and

corporate sponsors including

Post by Sally Khudairi
AMD, Basis Technology, Citrix, Cloudera, Facebook, Go Daddy, Google,

HP, Hortonworks, Huawei, IBM,

Post by Sally Khudairi
InMotion Hosting, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, PSW Group,

SpringSource/VMware, WANdisco, and Yahoo!.
Twitter.

Post by Sally Khudairi
"Apache", "Accumulo", "Apache Accumulo",

"Airavata", "Apache Airavata", "Axiom",
"Apache Axiom",

Post by Sally Khudairi
"Bloodhound", "Apache Bloodhound",

"CloudStack", "Apache CloudStack", "CouchDB",
"Apache CouchDB",

Post by Sally Khudairi
"Crunch", "Apache Crunch", "Giraph",

"Apache Giraph", "Gora", "Apache Gora",
"Hama", "Apache Hama",

Post by Sally Khudairi
"Hive", "Apache Hive", "Isis",

"Apache Isis", "Jena", "Apache Jena",
"Lenya", "Apache Lenya",

Post by Sally Khudairi
"Lucene", "Apache Lucene", "Mahout",

"Apache Mahout", "ManifoldCF", "Apache
ManifoldCF", "Mesos",

Post by Sally Khudairi
"Apache Mesos", "Nutch", "Apache Nutch",

"ODE", "Apache ODE", "OpenMeetings", "Apache
OpenMeetings",

Post by Sally Khudairi
"OpenOffice", "Apache OpenOffice", "Pig",

"Apache Pig", "Rat", "Apache Rat",
"SIS", "Apache SIS",

Post by Sally Khudairi
"Sling", "Apache Sling", "Solr",

"Apache Solr", "Stanbol", "Apache Stanbol",
"Tika", "Apache Tika",

Post by Sally Khudairi
"VXQuery", "Apache VXQuery", "Wookie",

"Apache Wookie", "XalanJ", "Apache XalanJ",
"XercesJ",

Post by Sally Khudairi
"Apache XercesJ", and "ApacheCon" are registered

trademarks or trademarks of the Apache Software

Post by Sally Khudairi
Foundation in the United States and/or other countries. All other

brands and trademarks are the

Post by Sally Khudairi
property of their respective owners.
# # #
Sally Khudairi
Vice President
The Apache Software Foundation
+1 617 921 8656

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Post by Sally Khudairi
*Sent:* Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 8:42
*Subject:* Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google

Summer of Code 2013

Post by Sally Khudairi
Perfect. Thank you, Uli!

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Post by Sally Khudairi
*Sent:* Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 8:36
*Subject:* Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for

Google Summer of Code 2013

Post by Sally Khudairi
Accumulo, Airavata, Axiom, Bloodhound, CloudStack, Lenya,

OpenOffice, ManifoldCF, CouchDB,

Post by Sally Khudairi
Crunch,
Giraph, Gora, Hama, Hive, Isis, Jena, Lucene, Mahout, Mesos,

Nutch, Ode, Openmeetings, Pig, Rat,

Post by Sally Khudairi
SIS, Sling, Solr, Stanbol, Tika, VXQuery, Wookie, XalanJ,

XercesJ

Post by Sally Khudairi
It isn't exclusive, these are simply the projects that have

submitted project ideas. Every

Post by Sally Khudairi
student
is free to approach any project and propose an idea (which is

also highly encouraged).

Post by Sally Khudairi
Cheers,
Uli

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
Any project can be involved. The ones listed at [4] have

explicitly submitted ideas for

Post by Sally Khudairi
students but

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
that doesn't mean students can't approach projects

not mentioned there. I'll compile a

Post by Sally Khudairi
list from [4]

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
for you.
Uli

Post by Sally Khudairi
One more thing: do we have a list of Apache projects

that will be involved here?

Post by Sally Khudairi
Thanks,
Sally

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Post by Sally Khudairi
*Sent:* Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 8:11
*Subject:* ASF accepted as a mentoring organization

for Google Summer of Code 2013

Post by Sally Khudairi
Recycling last years email on the topic. All dates

and links updated. It would be cool

Post by Sally Khudairi
if we could

Post by Sally Khudairi
get this out asap. Is there anything else you need?
Uli
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Apache Software Foundation accepted as a

mentoring organization for Google

Post by Sally Khudairi
Summer of

Post by Sally Khudairi
Code 2012
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:21:40 +0100
Hey Sally & Co.,
this year we won't forget to provide you with

some infos on our GSoC endeavours.

Post by Sally Khudairi
Yesterday, we have

Post by Sally Khudairi
been accepted as a mentoring organization for

Google Summer of Code 2013 [1],[2]. This

Post by Sally Khudairi
means that

Post by Sally Khudairi
over the summer, our committers will mentor

students that are sponsored by Google and

Post by Sally Khudairi
will be

Post by Sally Khudairi
working on our projects. The program helps us not

only to get some code written but

Post by Sally Khudairi
also to

Post by Sally Khudairi
introduce students into open source development and

hopefully recruit some new

Post by Sally Khudairi
long-term committers.

Post by Sally Khudairi
More information on the program is available at

[3]. Students are now encouraged to

Post by Sally Khudairi
discuss ideas

Post by Sally Khudairi
with the respective projects and begin drafting

proposals. An extensive list of

Post by Sally Khudairi
already existing

Post by Sally Khudairi
project ideas is available at [4]. The actual

application phase is from April 24 until

Post by Sally Khudairi
May 3, coding

Post by Sally Khudairi
will take place from June 17 to September 23. See

[5] for the detailed timeline.

Post by Sally Khudairi
Can you please run any press release past us
Thanks,
Uli
[1]

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013

Post by Sally Khudairi
[2]

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/apache

Post by Sally Khudairi
[3]

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2013/help_page

Post by Sally Khudairi
[4] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2013ideas
[5]

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2013

Sally Khudairi

2013-04-10 13:48:12 UTC

Thanks Dave --you are correct on both fronts.

This is also why both the TLP list and Incubator projects/URLs are mentioned.

Cheers,
Sally

[From the mobile; kindly excuse spelling/spacing/auto-correct anomalies]

----- Reply message -----
From: "Dave Fisher" <***@comcast.net>
To: <***@community.apache.org>
Cc: "Ulrich StÃ€rk" <***@spielviel.de>, "Sally Khudairi" <***@apache.org>, "***@apache.org" <***@apache.org>
Subject: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013
Date: Tue, Apr 9, 2013 7:52 PM

On it. Thanks for the reminder.

Post by Sally Khudairi
= = =
The Apache Software Foundation Community Development Project Welcomes Student Proposals for Google
Summer of Code 2013
Hundreds of students mentored in âThe Apache Wayâ of Open Source community leadership
Forest Hill, MD â9 April 2013â The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)'s Community Development (ComDev)
project today announced its acceptance into the Google Summer of Code (GsoC) as a mentoring
organization for the eighth consecutive year.
The ComDev team helps newcomers learn about the ASF's projects, governance, and activities, and
guides them in becoming part of the meritocratic, all-volunteer Apache community.
Established in 2005, the Google Summer of Code offers student developers from around the word
stipends to write code for various Open Source software projects over a three month period.
The ASF has actively participated in GSoC since the program's inception, mentoring 30-45 students
each year, and providing exposure to real-world software and community development âThe Apache Wayâ.
Countless GSoC students mentored by the Apache community continue to be long-term code committers on
a variety of Apache projects. Some active program participants have even been elected as members of
the ASF.
This year, dozens of Apache projects have committed to mentoring GSoC students. They include
Accumulo, Airavata, Axiom, Bloodhound, CloudStack, CouchDB, Crunch, Giraph, Gora, Hama, Hive, Isis,
Jena, Lenya, Lucene, Mahout, ManifoldCF, Mesos, Nutch, ODE, OpenMeetings, OpenOffice, Pig, Rat, SIS,
Sling, Solr, Stanbol, Tika, VXQuery, Wookie, XalanJ, and XercesJ.

Make clear that this list isn't exclusive. Maybe "They include but are not limited to..."?

Not that it should matter for this, but some of these projects are Incubator podlings.

"The ComDev team recommends GSoC students to discuss application ideas directly with all Apache
project(s) of interest before the official start of the application phase on Monday, 22 April 2013."

Post by Sally Khudairi
For more information on Apache Community Development and to get involved with Apache projects for
GSoC, visit http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html
Details on the Google Summer of Code is available at
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013
About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees nearly one hundred fifty leading Open
Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server â the world's most popular Web server software.
Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way", more than 400 individual Members
and 3,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software,
benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the
Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives,
and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US
501(3)(c) not-for-profit charity, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including
AMD, Basis Technology, Citrix, Cloudera, Facebook, Go Daddy, Google, HP, Hortonworks, Huawei, IBM,
InMotion Hosting, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, PSW Group, SpringSource/VMware, WANdisco, and Yahoo!.
"Apache", "Accumulo", "Apache Accumulo", "Airavata", "Apache Airavata", "Axiom", "Apache Axiom",
"Bloodhound", "Apache Bloodhound", "CloudStack", "Apache CloudStack", "CouchDB", "Apache CouchDB",
"Crunch", "Apache Crunch", "Giraph", "Apache Giraph", "Gora", "Apache Gora", "Hama", "Apache Hama",
"Hive", "Apache Hive", "Isis", "Apache Isis", "Jena", "Apache Jena", "Lenya", "Apache Lenya",
"Lucene", "Apache Lucene", "Mahout", "Apache Mahout", "ManifoldCF", "Apache ManifoldCF", "Mesos",
"Apache Mesos", "Nutch", "Apache Nutch", "ODE", "Apache ODE", "OpenMeetings", "Apache OpenMeetings",
"OpenOffice", "Apache OpenOffice", "Pig", "Apache Pig", "Rat", "Apache Rat", "SIS", "Apache SIS",
"Sling", "Apache Sling", "Solr", "Apache Solr", "Stanbol", "Apache Stanbol", "Tika", "Apache Tika",
"VXQuery", "Apache VXQuery", "Wookie", "Apache Wookie", "XalanJ", "Apache XalanJ", "XercesJ",
"Apache XercesJ", and "ApacheCon" are registered trademarks or trademarks of the Apache Software
Foundation in the United States and/or other countries. All other brands and trademarks are the
property of their respective owners.
# # #
Sally Khudairi
Vice President
The Apache Software Foundation
+1 617 921 8656
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*Sent:* Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 8:42
*Subject:* Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013
Perfect. Thank you, Uli!
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*Sent:* Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 8:36
*Subject:* Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013
Accumulo, Airavata, Axiom, Bloodhound, CloudStack, Lenya, OpenOffice, ManifoldCF, CouchDB,
Crunch,
Giraph, Gora, Hama, Hive, Isis, Jena, Lucene, Mahout, Mesos, Nutch, Ode, Openmeetings, Pig, Rat,
SIS, Sling, Solr, Stanbol, Tika, VXQuery, Wookie, XalanJ, XercesJ
It isn't exclusive, these are simply the projects that have submitted project ideas. Every
student
is free to approach any project and propose an idea (which is also highly encouraged).
Cheers,
Uli

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
Any project can be involved. The ones listed at [4] have explicitly submitted ideas for

students but

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
that doesn't mean students can't approach projects not mentioned there. I'll compile a

list from [4]

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
for you.
Uli

Post by Sally Khudairi
One more thing: do we have a list of Apache projects that will be involved here?
Thanks,
Sally

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

if we could

Post by Sally Khudairi
get this out asap. Is there anything else you need?
Uli
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Apache Software Foundation accepted as a mentoring organization for Google

Summer of

Post by Sally Khudairi
Code 2012
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:21:40 +0100
Hey Sally & Co.,
this year we won't forget to provide you with some infos on our GSoC endeavours.

Yesterday, we have

Post by Sally Khudairi
been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013 [1],[2]. This

means that

Post by Sally Khudairi
over the summer, our committers will mentor students that are sponsored by Google and

will be

Post by Sally Khudairi
working on our projects. The program helps us not only to get some code written but

also to

Post by Sally Khudairi
introduce students into open source development and hopefully recruit some new

long-term committers.

Post by Sally Khudairi
More information on the program is available at [3]. Students are now encouraged to

discuss ideas

Post by Sally Khudairi
with the respective projects and begin drafting proposals. An extensive list of

already existing

Post by Sally Khudairi
project ideas is available at [4]. The actual application phase is from April 24 until

May 3, coding

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2013/help_page

Post by Sally Khudairi
[4] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2013ideas
[5] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2013

Sally Khudairi

2015-03-12 19:59:12 UTC

Fantastic --thank you, Suresh!

I'll be in touch.

-Sally

[From the mobile; please excuse top-posting, spelling/spacing errors, and brevity]

----- Reply message -----
From: "Suresh Marru" <***@apache.org>
To: <***@community.apache.org>
Cc: "Sally Khudairi" <***@apache.org>, "***@apache.org" <***@apache.org>
Subject: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
Date: Thu, Mar 12, 2015 15:49

Hi Sally,
I am sure Ross and few others from ComDev will also be there at ApacheCon and should be able to provide details on GSoC at ASF. I will be there as well and also have a talk accepted on the same topic - http://sched.co/2P6f

Please let me know if you would like to promote anything specific on GSoC, I will be happy to help and will appreciate your efforts.

Suresh

On Mar 12, 2015, at 1:59 PM, Ulrich StÃ€rk <***@spielviel.de> wrote:
Perfect, thanks!Cheers,UliOn 2015-03-12 18:57, Sally Khudairi wrote:Got it. OK.Let me pull something together and get back to you in a day or so. Does that work for you?Cheers,Sally----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*From:* Ulrich StÃ€rk <***@spielviel.de>*To:* Sally Khudairi <***@apache.org>; "***@apache.org" <***@apache.org>*Cc:* "***@community.apache.org" <***@community.apache.org>*Sent:* Thursday, 12 March 2015, 13:54*Subject:* Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015Hi Sally,yes, I'm the GSoC lead again.I don't know who from ComDev will be at ApacheCon but I guess at least Ross will. There's nothingplanned at the moment.Cheers,UliOn 2015-03-12 18:42, Sally Khudairi wrote:Thanks, Uli.I did post about it in our weekly news round-up.Happy to work with you on a press release. Who is the ASF lead on GSoC. You?Who from ComDev will be at ApacheCon? Are you planning to do something special there?Cheers,Sally----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*From:* Ulrich StÃ€rk <***@spielviel.de <mailto:***@spielviel.de>>*To:* "***@apache.org <mailto:***@apache.org>" <***@apache.org <mailto:***@apache.org>>;Sally Khudairi <***@apache.org <mailto:***@apache.org>>*Cc:* "***@community.apache.org <mailto:***@community.apache.org>" <***@community.apache.org<mailto:***@community.apache.org>>*Sent:* Thursday, 12 March 2015, 13:31*Subject:* Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015And again recycling this. I think we missed 2014 so I want to make sure to get an announcement outthis year.Cheers,UliOn 2013-04-09 14:11, Ulrich StÃ€rk wrote:Recycling last years email on the topic. All dates and links updated. It would be cool if we couldget this out asap. Is there anything else you need?Uli-------- Original Message --------Subject: Apache Software Foundation accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code2012Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:21:40 +0100From: Ulrich StÃ€rk <***@spielviel.de <mailto:***@spielviel.de> <mailto:***@spielviel.de<mailto:***@spielviel.de>>>To: ***@apache.org <mailto:***@apache.org> <mailto:***@apache.org <mailto:***@apache.org>>CC: ***@community.apache.org <mailto:***@community.apache.org> <mailto:***@community.apache.org<mailto:***@community.apache.org>>Hey Sally & Co.,this year we won't forget to provide you with some infos on our GSoC endeavours. Yesterday, we havebeen accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015 [1],[2]. This means thatover the summer, our committers will mentor students that are sponsored by Google and will beworking on our projects. The program helps us not only to get some code written but also tointroduce students into open source development and hopefully recruit some new long-term committers.More information on the program is available at [3]. Students are now encouraged to discuss ideaswith the respective projects and begin drafting proposals. An extensive list of already existingproject ideas is available at [4]. The actual application phase is from March 16 until March 27,codingwill take place from May 25 to August 21. See [5] for the detailed timeline.Can you please run any press release past us (***@community.apache.org<mailto:***@community.apache.org><mailto:***@community.apache.org <mailto:***@community.apache.org>>) before publishing?Thanks,Uli[1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015[2] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/apache[3] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2015/help_page[4] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas[5] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2015

Sally Khudairi

2015-03-12 20:14:54 UTC

Thanks, Ross.

I'd like to explore this further with you. When do you leave the country?

Chat soon,
Sally

[From the mobile; please excuse top-posting, spelling/spacing errors, and brevity]

----- Reply message -----
From: "Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)" <***@microsoft.com>
To: "***@community.apache.org" <***@community.apache.org>
Cc: "Sally Khudairi" <***@apache.org>, "***@apache.org" <***@apache.org>
Subject: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
Date: Thu, Mar 12, 2015 15:56

Sally we could weave this into the diversity angle, as a reminder I intend to use the state of the feather to acknowledge that we have mostly failed to move the needle on diversity in our community, that very little works (GSoC is a good example of something that does work), accept we donât have significant cash resources to make a big difference and therefore we have invited TEALs to present, organize a BOF and have a table in the expo area. TEALs help get people like our vast army of volunteers into high schools to help improve CS education. My hope is that by supporting activities like this we can have a small impact on the quality and breadth of CS education for those coming to us as contributors in later years.

What do you think? If this works for you I could link you to the TEALs people to help with content for a blog.

Oh, and I will be at ApacheCon.

Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.
A subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation

-----Original Message-----
From: Suresh Marru [mailto:***@apache.org]
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 12:50 PM
To: ***@community.apache.org
Cc: Sally Khudairi; ***@apache.org
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015

Hi Sally,

I am sure Ross and few others from ComDev will also be there at ApacheCon and should be able to provide details on GSoC at ASF. I will be there as well and also have a talk accepted on the same topic - http://sched.co/2P6f <http://sched.co/2P6f>

Please let me know if you would like to promote anything specific on GSoC, I will be happy to help and will appreciate your efforts.

Suresh

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
Perfect, thanks!
Cheers,
Uli

Post by Sally Khudairi
Got it. OK.
Let me pull something together and get back to you in a day or so. Does that work for you?
Cheers,
Sally
---------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------
*Sent:* Thursday, 12 March 2015, 13:54
*Subject:* Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google
Summer of Code 2015
Hi Sally,
yes, I'm the GSoC lead again.
I don't know who from ComDev will be at ApacheCon but I guess at
least Ross will. There's nothing planned at the moment.
Cheers,
Uli

Thanks, Uli.
I did post about it in our weekly news round-up.
Happy to work with you on a press release. Who is the ASF lead on GSoC. You?
Who from ComDev will be at ApacheCon? Are you planning to do something special there?
Cheers,
Sally
--------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------
*Sent:* Thursday, 12 March 2015, 13:31
*Subject:* Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google
Summer of Code 2015
And again recycling this. I think we missed 2014 so I want to make
sure to get an announcement out this year.
Cheers,
Uli

2012

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:21:40 +0100
Hey Sally & Co.,
this year we won't forget to provide you with some infos on our
GSoC endeavours. Yesterday, we have been accepted as a mentoring
organization for Google Summer of Code 2015 [1],[2]. This means
that over the summer, our committers will mentor students that are
sponsored by Google and will be working on our projects. The program helps us not only to get some code written but also to introduce students into open source development and hopefully recruit some new long-term committers.
More information on the program is available at [3]. Students are
now encouraged to discuss ideas with the respective projects and
begin drafting proposals. An extensive list of already existing
project ideas is available at [4]. The actual application phase is
from March 16 until March 27,

coding

Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)

2015-03-12 20:15:24 UTC

Iâm around until the end of next week

Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.
A subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation

From: Sally Khudairi [mailto:***@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 1:15 PM
To: Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH); ***@community.apache.org
Cc: Sally Khudairi; ***@apache.org
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015

Thanks, Ross.

I'd like to explore this further with you. When do you leave the country?

Chat soon,
Sally

[From the mobile; please excuse top-posting, spelling/spacing errors, and brevity]

----- Reply message -----
From: "Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)" <***@microsoft.com<mailto:***@microsoft.com>>
To: "***@community.apache.org<mailto:***@community.apache.org>" <***@community.apache.org<mailto:***@community.apache.org>>
Cc: "Sally Khudairi" <***@apache.org<mailto:***@apache.org>>, "***@apache.org<mailto:***@apache.org>" <***@apache.org<mailto:***@apache.org>>
Subject: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
Date: Thu, Mar 12, 2015 15:56

Sally we could weave this into the diversity angle, as a reminder I intend to use the state of the feather to acknowledge that we have mostly failed to move the needle on diversity in our community, that very little works (GSoC is a good example of something that does work), accept we donât have significant cash resources to make a big difference and therefore we have invited TEALs to present, organize a BOF and have a table in the expo area. TEALs help get people like our vast army of volunteers into high schools to help improve CS education. My hope is that by supporting activities like this we can have a small impact on the quality and breadth of CS education for those coming to us as contributors in later years.

What do you think? If this works for you I could link you to the TEALs people to help with content for a blog.

Oh, and I will be at ApacheCon.

Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

A subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation

-----Original Message-----

From: Suresh Marru [mailto:***@apache.org]

Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 12:50 PM

To: ***@community.apache.org<mailto:***@community.apache.org>

Cc: Sally Khudairi; ***@apache.org<mailto:***@apache.org>

Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015

Hi Sally,

I am sure Ross and few others from ComDev will also be there at ApacheCon and should be able to provide details on GSoC at ASF. I will be there as well and also have a talk accepted on the same topic - http://sched.co/2P6f <http://sched.co/2P6f>

Please let me know if you would like to promote anything specific on GSoC, I will be happy to help and will appreciate your efforts.

Suresh

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
Perfect, thanks!
Cheers,
Uli

Post by Sally Khudairi
Got it. OK.
Let me pull something together and get back to you in a day or so. Does that work for you?
Cheers,
Sally
---------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------
*Sent:* Thursday, 12 March 2015, 13:54
*Subject:* Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google
Summer of Code 2015
Hi Sally,
yes, I'm the GSoC lead again.
I don't know who from ComDev will be at ApacheCon but I guess at
least Ross will. There's nothing planned at the moment.
Cheers,
Uli

Thanks, Uli.
I did post about it in our weekly news round-up.
Happy to work with you on a press release. Who is the ASF lead on GSoC. You?
Who from ComDev will be at ApacheCon? Are you planning to do something special there?
Cheers,
Sally
--------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------
*Sent:* Thursday, 12 March 2015, 13:31
*Subject:* Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google
Summer of Code 2015
And again recycling this. I think we missed 2014 so I want to make
sure to get an announcement out this year.
Cheers,
Uli

2012

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:21:40 +0100
Hey Sally & Co.,
this year we won't forget to provide you with some infos on our
GSoC endeavours. Yesterday, we have been accepted as a mentoring
organization for Google Summer of Code 2015 [1],[2]. This means
that over the summer, our committers will mentor students that are
sponsored by Google and will be working on our projects. The program helps us not only to get some code written but also to introduce students into open source development and hopefully recruit some new long-term committers.
More information on the program is available at [3]. Students are
now encouraged to discuss ideas with the respective projects and
begin drafting proposals. An extensive list of already existing
project ideas is available at [4]. The actual application phase is
from March 16 until March 27,

coding

Sally Khudairi

2015-03-16 12:58:22 UTC

Hi Ross --a quick follow-up on this.
As you may have been following our emails, we're aiming to issue the ASF press release tomorrow.Â How would you like to go about integrating the TEALs angle? Should this be something we work around for ApacheCon? Or did you have something else in mind?
I'm happy to take the conversation off-list whilst we sort out the details.
Thanks again,Sally

From: Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) <***@microsoft.com>
To: Sally Khudairi <***@yahoo.com>; "***@community.apache.org" <***@community.apache.org>
Cc: Sally Khudairi <***@apache.org>; "***@apache.org" <***@apache.org>
Sent: Thursday, 12 March 2015, 16:15
Subject: RE: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015

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From: Sally Khudairi [mailto:***@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 1:15 PM
To: Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH); ***@community.apache.org
Cc: Sally Khudairi; ***@apache.org
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015 Â Thanks, Ross. Â I'd like to explore this further with you. When do you leave the country? Â Chat soon, Â Sally Â [From the mobile; please excuse top-posting, spelling/spacing errors, and brevity] Â ----- Reply message -----
From: "Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH)" <***@microsoft.com>
To: "***@community.apache.org" <***@community.apache.org>
Cc: "Sally Khudairi" <***@apache.org>, "***@apache.org" <***@apache.org>
Subject: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
Date: Thu, Mar 12, 2015 15:56

Sally we could weave this into the diversity angle, as a reminder I intend to use the state of the feather to acknowledge that we have mostly failed to move the needle on diversity in our community, that very little works (GSoC is a good example of something that does work), accept we donât have significant cash resources to make a big difference and therefore we have invited TEALs to present, organize a BOF and have a table in the expo area. TEALs help get people like our vast army of volunteers into high schools to help improve CS education. My hope is that by supporting activities like this we can have a small impact on the quality and breadth of CS education for those coming to us as contributors in later years. Â What do you think? If this works for you I could link you to the TEALs people to help with content for a blog. Â Oh, and I will be at ApacheCon. Â Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. A subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation Â -----Original Message----- From: Suresh Marru [mailto:***@apache.org] Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 12:50 PM To: ***@community.apache.org Cc: Sally Khudairi; ***@apache.org Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015 Â Hi Sally, Â I am sure Ross and few others from ComDev will also be there at ApacheCon and should be able to provide details on GSoC at ASF. I will be there as well and also have a talk accepted on the same topic - http://sched.co/2P6f <http://sched.co/2P6f> Â Please let me know if you would like to promote anything specific on GSoC, I will be happy to help and will appreciate your efforts. Â Suresh Â > On Mar 12, 2015, at 1:59 PM, Ulrich StÃ€rk <***@spielviel.de> wrote: > > Perfect, thanks! > > Cheers, > > Uli > > On 2015-03-12 18:57, Sally Khudairi wrote: >> Got it. OK. >> >> Let me pull something together and get back to you in a day or so. Does that work for you? >> >> Cheers, >> Sally >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ------------------------------- >> *From:* Ulrich StÃ€rk <***@spielviel.de> >> *To:* Sally Khudairi <***@apache.org>; "***@apache.org" >> <***@apache.org> >> *Cc:* "***@community.apache.org" <***@community.apache.org> >> *Sent:* Thursday, 12 March 2015, 13:54 >> *Subject:* Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google >> Summer of Code 2015 >> >> Hi Sally, >> >> yes, I'm the GSoC lead again. >> >> I don't know who from ComDev will be at ApacheCon but I guess at >> least Ross will. There's nothing planned at the moment. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Uli >> >> On 2015-03-12 18:42, Sally Khudairi wrote: >>> Thanks, Uli. >>> >>> I did post about it in our weekly news round-up. >>> >>> Happy to work with you on a press release. Who is the ASF lead on GSoC. You? >>> >>> Who from ComDev will be at ApacheCon? Are you planning to do something special there? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Sally >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> -------------------------------- >>> *From:* Ulrich StÃ€rk <***@spielviel.de <mailto:***@spielviel.de> >>> <mailto:***@spielviel.de <mailto:***@spielviel.de>>> >>> *To:* "***@apache.org <mailto:***@apache.org> >>> <mailto:***@apache.org <mailto:***@apache.org>>" >>> <***@apache.org <mailto:***@apache.org> <mailto:***@apache.org >>> <mailto:***@apache.org>>>; >> Sally Khudairi <***@apache.org <mailto:***@apache.org> >> <mailto:***@apache.org <mailto:***@apache.org>>> >>> *Cc:* "***@community.apache.org <mailto:***@community.apache.org> >>> <mailto:***@community.apache.org <mailto:***@community.apache.org>>" >>> <***@community.apache.org <mailto:***@community.apache.org> >> <mailto:***@community.apache.org <mailto:***@community.apache.org>>> >>> *Sent:* Thursday, 12 March 2015, 13:31 >>> *Subject:* Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google >>> Summer of Code 2015 >>> >>> And again recycling this. I think we missed 2014 so I want to make >>> sure to get an announcement out this year. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Uli >>> >>> On 2013-04-09 14:11, Ulrich StÃ€rk wrote: >>>> Recycling last years email on the topic. All dates and links >>>> updated. It would be cool if we could get this out asap. Is there anything else you need? >>>> >>>> Uli >>>> >>>> -------- Original Message -------- >>>> Subject: Apache Software Foundation accepted as a mentoring >>>> organization for Google Summer of Code >>> 2012 >>>> Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:21:40 +0100 >>>> From: Ulrich StÃ€rk <***@spielviel.de <mailto:***@spielviel.de> >>>> <mailto:***@spielviel.de <mailto:***@spielviel.de>> >>>> <mailto:***@spielviel.de <mailto:***@spielviel.de> >> <mailto:***@spielviel.de <mailto:***@spielviel.de>>>> >>>> To: ***@apache.org <mailto:***@apache.org> >>>> <mailto:***@apache.org <mailto:***@apache.org>> >>>> <mailto:***@apache.org <mailto:***@apache.org> >>>> <mailto:***@apache.org <mailto:***@apache.org>>> >>>> CC: ***@community.apache.org <mailto:***@community.apache.org> >>>> <mailto:***@community.apache.org <mailto:***@community.apache.org>> >>>> <mailto:***@community.apache.org <mailto:***@community.apache.org> >> <mailto:***@community.apache.org <mailto:***@community.apache.org>>> >>>> >>>> Hey Sally & Co., >>>> >>>> this year we won't forget to provide you with some infos on our >>>> GSoC endeavours. Yesterday, we have been accepted as a mentoring >>>> organization for Google Summer of Code 2015 [1],[2]. This means >>>> that over the summer, our committers will mentor students that are >>>> sponsored by Google and will be working on our projects. The program helps us not only to get some code written but also to introduce students into open source development and hopefully recruit some new long-term committers. >>>> More information on the program is available at [3]. Students are >>>> now encouraged to discuss ideas with the respective projects and >>>> begin drafting proposals. An extensive list of already existing >>>> project ideas is available at [4]. The actual application phase is >>>> from March 16 until March 27, >>> coding >>>> will take place from May 25 to August 21. See [5] for the detailed timeline. >>>> >>>> Can you please run any press release past us >>>> (***@community.apache.org <mailto:***@community.apache.org> >> <mailto:***@community.apache.org <mailto:***@community.apache.org>> >>> <mailto:***@community.apache.org <mailto:***@community.apache.org> <mailto:***@community.apache.org <mailto:***@community.apache.org>>>) before publishing? >> >> >> >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> Uli >>>> >>>> [1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015 >>>> <http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015> >>>> [2] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/apache >>>> <http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/apache> >>>> [3] >>>> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/googl >>>> e/gsoc2015/help_page >>>> <http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/goog >>>> le/gsoc2015/help_page> [4] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas >>>> <http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas> >>>> [5] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2015 >>>> <http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2015>

Sally Khudairi

2015-03-13 21:42:16 UTC

Okiedoke! I'll make the adjustment.

Thanks, Greg!

[From the mobile; please excuse top-posting, spelling/spacing errors, and brevity]

----- Reply message -----
From: "Greg Stein" <***@gmail.com>
To: "Sally Khudairi" <***@apache.org>
Cc: "Ulrich StÃ€rk" <***@spielviel.de>, "***@apache.org" <***@apache.org>, "***@community.apache.org" <***@community.apache.org>
Subject: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
Date: Fri, Mar 13, 2015 17:22

The very first year was 2005. Thus, 2015 would be the 11th GSoC.
As one of the two people to launch/create GSoC, you can call me authoritative on the dates :-P

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Sally Khudairi <***@apache.org> wrote:
Whaaaaat?

Really? I had it in the "Did You Know?" section last week as 10th also.

AND, more importantly, if my calculations are off, then in

https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/date/20141119

the 2013 entry as "eighth consecutive year" is wrong too.

Who has the correct count? It really is 11? Not that I don't trust you, I now am feeling quite lost.

Cheers,

Sally

________________________________

From: Ulrich StÃ€rk <***@spielviel.de>

To: "***@apache.org" <***@apache.org>

Cc: ***@community.apache.org; Sally Khudairi <***@apache.org>

Sent: Friday, 13 March 2015, 17:09

Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015

Hey Sally,

I just read the announcement and it says "The ASF has been accepted as a Google Summer of Code

mentoring organization for the 10th consecutive year".

If I'm not mistaken it's the 11th year ;)

Cheers,

Uli

Thanks, Uli.
I did post about it in our weekly news round-up.
Happy to work with you on a press release. Who is the ASF lead on GSoC. You? Who from ComDev will be at ApacheCon? Are you planning to do something special there?
Cheers,Sally
Â Sent: Thursday, 12 March 2015, 13:31
Â Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
And again recycling this. I think we missed 2014 so I want to make sure to get an announcement out
this year.
Cheers,
Uli

Sally Khudairi

2015-03-13 23:13:52 UTC

Fixed https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/date/20150313

and fixed https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/date/20150306

I'll forward the draft press release before the end of the weekend so we can announce first thing on Tuesday.

Bon weekend,
Sally

________________________________
From: Sally Khudairi <***@yahoo.com>
To: Greg Stein <***@gmail.com>; Sally Khudairi <***@apache.org>
Cc: Ulrich Stärk <***@spielviel.de>; "***@apache.org" <***@apache.org>; "***@community.apache.org" <***@community.apache.org>
Sent: Friday, 13 March 2015, 17:42
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015

Okiedoke! I'll make the adjustment.

Thanks, Greg!

[From the mobile; please excuse top-posting, spelling/spacing errors, and brevity]

----- Reply message -----
From: "Greg Stein" <***@gmail.com>
To: "Sally Khudairi" <***@apache.org>
Cc: "Ulrich Stärk" <***@spielviel.de>, "***@apache.org" <***@apache.org>, "***@community.apache.org" <***@community.apache.org>
Subject: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
Date: Fri, Mar 13, 2015 17:22

The very first year was 2005. Thus, 2015 would be the 11th GSoC.

As one of the two people to launch/create GSoC, you can call me authoritative on the dates :-P

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Sally Khudairi <***@apache.org> wrote:

Whaaaaat?

Thanks, Uli.
I did post about it in our weekly news round-up.
Happy to work with you on a press release. Who is the ASF lead on GSoC. You? Who from ComDev will be at ApacheCon? Are you planning to do something special there?
Cheers,Sally
Sent: Thursday, 12 March 2015, 13:31
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
And again recycling this. I think we missed 2014 so I want to make sure to get an announcement out
this year.
Cheers,
Uli

Sally Khudairi

2015-03-13 23:35:19 UTC

Fixed https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/date/20141119 as well.

Bon weekend!

-Sally

----- Original Message -----
From: Sally Khudairi <***@apache.org>
To: Ulrich Stärk <***@spielviel.de>; Greg Stein <***@gmail.com>
Cc: "***@apache.org" <***@apache.org>; "***@community.apache.org" <***@community.apache.org>
Sent: Friday, 13 March 2015, 19:13
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015

Fixed https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/date/20150313

and fixed https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/date/20150306

I'll forward the draft press release before the end of the weekend so we can announce first thing on Tuesday.

Bon weekend,
Sally

________________________________

From: Sally Khudairi <***@yahoo.com>
To: Greg Stein <***@gmail.com>; Sally Khudairi <***@apache.org>
Cc: Ulrich Stärk <***@spielviel.de>; "***@apache.org" <***@apache.org>; "***@community.apache.org" <***@community.apache.org>
Sent: Friday, 13 March 2015, 17:42
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015

Okiedoke! I'll make the adjustment.

Thanks, Greg!

[From the mobile; please excuse top-posting, spelling/spacing errors, and brevity]

----- Reply message -----
From: "Greg Stein" <***@gmail.com>
To: "Sally Khudairi" <***@apache.org>
Cc: "Ulrich Stärk" <***@spielviel.de>, "***@apache.org" <***@apache.org>, "***@community.apache.org" <***@community.apache.org>
Subject: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
Date: Fri, Mar 13, 2015 17:22

The very first year was 2005. Thus, 2015 would be the 11th GSoC.

As one of the two people to launch/create GSoC, you can call me authoritative on the dates :-P

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Sally Khudairi <***@apache.org> wrote:

Whaaaaat?

Thanks, Uli.
I did post about it in our weekly news round-up.
Happy to work with you on a press release. Who is the ASF lead on GSoC. You? Who from ComDev will be at ApacheCon? Are you planning to do something special there?
Cheers,Sally
Sent: Thursday, 12 March 2015, 13:31
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
And again recycling this. I think we missed 2014 so I want to make sure to get an announcement out
this year.
Cheers,
Uli

Sally Khudairi

2015-03-15 21:37:18 UTC

Thanks, Uli!

I'll incorporate your suggestions and forward the revised draft shortly.

How do you feel about your proposed quotes?

Chat soon,
Sally

[From the mobile; please excuse top-posting, spelling/spacing errors, and brevity]

----- Reply message -----
From: "Ulrich StÃ€rk" <***@spielviel.de>
To: <***@community.apache.org>, "Greg Stein" <***@gmail.com>
Cc: "***@apache.org" <***@apache.org>, "Sally Khudairi" <***@apache.org>
Subject: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
Date: Sun, Mar 15, 2015 17:14

Thank you Sally,

my two comments are inline.

Cheers,

Uli

Will do.

Post by Sally Khudairi
Thanks so much, Sally
= = =
DRAFT :: NOT FOR DISSEMINATION
The Apache Software Foundation Accepted as a Google Summer of Code 2015 Mentoring Organization
Hundreds of students mentored in "The Apache Way" of community-driven development since the
program's inception in 2005.
Forest Hill, MD â17 March 2015â The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer
developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives,
announced today that it has been accepted as a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) mentoring
organization for the 11th consecutive year.
The Google Summer of Code program offers student developers stipends to write code for various
Open Source projects over a three month period. This year, students will be paired with mentors
from 137 Open Source, free software, and technology-related groups that include CERN, GNU
Project, KDE, MIT Media Lab, WikiMedia Foundation, and many more.
The ASF was amongst the initial 39 organizations selected to participate in the very first GSoC
in 2005, and has participated every year since. At the ASF, the GSoC program is overseen by the
Apache Community Development project, which comprises volunteers who help guide newcomers to The
Apache Software Foundation, provide insight and advice on The Apache Way of meritocratic
development, including how to contribute to Apache projects and to the Open Source community
at-large.
"Over the summer, Apache Committers will mentor students that are sponsored by Google and will be
working on many of our projects," said Ulrich StÃ€rk, Vice President of Community Development at
the ASF. "The program helps us to not only get some great code written, but also to introduce
students into Open Source development and hopefully recruit some new long-term Committers."
Now through 27 March, students are encouraged to discuss ideas with mentoring organizations and
begin drafting proposals for those projects of interest. Coding will begin 25 May and end 21

Post by Sally Khudairi
"GSoC gives students the chance to work on industry-leading Open Source projects, collaborate
with diverse communities, and gain real world experience related to their academic pursuits,"
added StÃ€rk. "We are proud to have mentored so many talented students over the years, and
furthered our mission of providing software products for the public good. It's a rewarding
experience both for the students and the Apache community at-large."
Since the program's inception, GSoC has brought together over 8,500 successful student
participants from over countries and over 8,000 mentors from 109 countries worldwide to produce
over 55 million lines of code.
"Being accepted once again as a Google Summer of Code mentoring organization reinforces The
Apache Software Foundation's leadership in community-driven development," said ASF Vice Chairman
Greg Stein, who, in 2005 co-created the GSoC program while working at Google. "Hundreds of
students have been mentored in 'The Apache Way' --many have continued on to become long-term code
committers on a variety of Apache projects, with some active program participants elected as ASF
Members."
Information on the ASF's participation in Google Summer of Code is available at
http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html
About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation
oversees more than 350 leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server --the world's
most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as "The Apache
Way," more than 500 individual Members and 4,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop
freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of
software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively
participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's
official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(c)(3) charitable organization,
funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including Budget Direct, Cerner, Citrix,
Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Hortonworks, HP, IBM, InMotion Hosting, iSigma, Matt
Mullenweg, Microsoft, Pivotal, Produban, WANdisco, and Yahoo. For more information, visit
http://www.apache.org/ or follow https://twitter.com/TheASF
Â© The Apache Software Foundation. "Apache", "Apache HTTP Server", and "ApacheCon", are trademarks
of The Apache Software Foundation. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.
# # #
[MEDIA CONTACT:SALLY] ________________________________
mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
Thanks, Greg!
That works --better to be a bit wordy and clear vs. brief and vague <g>
We can always write "QUOTE," said Greg Stein, ASF Vice Chairman (and co-creator of the GSoC
program, while working at Google in 2005).
Now for the quote itself... I'll put that in the draft that I'll be sending over later.
Cheers & chat soon, Sally
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
Sure, that sounds great! âŠ are you looking for something like "co-creator of the GSoC program,
while working at Google in 2005" ?? That's a bit of a mouthful, but is that the direction you're
thinking?
And please go ahead an draft up a quote. I'm not quite sure the angle you're looking at, so best
if you go first :-)
Thx, -g
Greg,

Post by Sally Khudairi
Really? I had it in the "Did You Know?" section last week as 10th also.
AND, more importantly, if my calculations are off, then in
https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/date/20141119
the 2013 entry as "eighth consecutive year" is wrong too.
Who has the correct count? It really is 11? Not that I don't trust you, I now am feeling
quite lost.
Cheers, Sally
13 March 2015, 17:09
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
Hey Sally,
I just read the announcement and it says "The ASF has been accepted as a Google Summer of
Code mentoring organization for the 10th consecutive year".
If I'm not mistaken it's the 11th year ;)
Cheers,
Uli

Thanks, Uli. I did post about it in our weekly news round-up. Happy to work with you on a
press release. Who is the ASF lead on GSoC. You? Who from ComDev will be at ApacheCon? Are
you planning to do something special there? Cheers,Sally From: Ulrich StÃ€rk
12 March 2015, 13:31 Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google
Summer of Code 2015
And again recycling this. I think we missed 2014 so I want to make sure to get an
announcement out this year.
Cheers,
Uli

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
Recycling last years email on the topic. All dates and links updated. It would be cool if
we could get this out asap. Is there anything else you need?
Uli
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Apache Software Foundation accepted as a
mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2012 Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:21:40
Hey Sally & Co.,
this year we won't forget to provide you with some infos on our GSoC endeavours.
Yesterday, we have been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code
2015 [1],[2]. This means that over the summer, our committers will mentor students that
are sponsored by Google and will be working on our projects. The program helps us not
only to get some code written but also to introduce students into open source development
and hopefully recruit some new long-term committers. More information on the program is
available at [3]. Students are now encouraged to discuss ideas with the respective
projects and begin drafting proposals. An extensive list of already existing project
ideas is available at [4]. The actual application phase is from March 16 until March 27,
coding will take place from May 25 to August 21. See [5] for the detailed timeline.
publishing?
Thanks,
Uli
[1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015 [2]
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/apache [3]
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2015/help_page
[4] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas [5]
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2015

Ulrich Stärk

2015-03-15 21:48:39 UTC

Hi Sally,

I think they are great as they are. Thanks a lot!

Cheers,

Uli

Post by Sally Khudairi
Thanks, Uli!
I'll incorporate your suggestions and forward the revised draft shortly.
How do you feel about your proposed quotes?
Chat soon,
Sally
[From the mobile; please excuse top-posting, spelling/spacing errors, and brevity]
----- Reply message -----
Subject: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
Date: Sun, Mar 15, 2015 17:14
Thank you Sally,
my two comments are inline.
Cheers,
Uli

Will do.

Post by Sally Khudairi
Thanks so much, Sally
= = =
DRAFT :: NOT FOR DISSEMINATION
The Apache Software Foundation Accepted as a Google Summer of Code 2015 Mentoring Organization
Hundreds of students mentored in "The Apache Way" of community-driven development since the
program's inception in 2005.
Forest Hill, MD â17 March 2015â The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer
developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives,
announced today that it has been accepted as a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) mentoring
organization for the 11th consecutive year.
The Google Summer of Code program offers student developers stipends to write code for various
Open Source projects over a three month period. This year, students will be paired with mentors
from 137 Open Source, free software, and technology-related groups that include CERN, GNU
Project, KDE, MIT Media Lab, WikiMedia Foundation, and many more.
The ASF was amongst the initial 39 organizations selected to participate in the very first GSoC
in 2005, and has participated every year since. At the ASF, the GSoC program is overseen by the
Apache Community Development project, which comprises volunteers who help guide newcomers to The
Apache Software Foundation, provide insight and advice on The Apache Way of meritocratic
development, including how to contribute to Apache projects and to the Open Source community
at-large.
"Over the summer, Apache Committers will mentor students that are sponsored by Google and will be
working on many of our projects," said Ulrich StÃ€rk, Vice President of Community Development at
the ASF. "The program helps us to not only get some great code written, but also to introduce
students into Open Source development and hopefully recruit some new long-term Committers."
Now through 27 March, students are encouraged to discuss ideas with mentoring organizations and
begin drafting proposals for those projects of interest. Coding will begin 25 May and end 21

Post by Sally Khudairi
"GSoC gives students the chance to work on industry-leading Open Source projects, collaborate
with diverse communities, and gain real world experience related to their academic pursuits,"
added StÃ€rk. "We are proud to have mentored so many talented students over the years, and
furthered our mission of providing software products for the public good. It's a rewarding
experience both for the students and the Apache community at-large."
Since the program's inception, GSoC has brought together over 8,500 successful student
participants from over countries and over 8,000 mentors from 109 countries worldwide to produce
over 55 million lines of code.
"Being accepted once again as a Google Summer of Code mentoring organization reinforces The
Apache Software Foundation's leadership in community-driven development," said ASF Vice Chairman
Greg Stein, who, in 2005 co-created the GSoC program while working at Google. "Hundreds of
students have been mentored in 'The Apache Way' --many have continued on to become long-term code
committers on a variety of Apache projects, with some active program participants elected as ASF
Members."
Information on the ASF's participation in Google Summer of Code is available at
http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html
About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation
oversees more than 350 leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server --the world's
most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as "The Apache
Way," more than 500 individual Members and 4,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop
freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of
software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively
participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's
official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(c)(3) charitable organization,
funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including Budget Direct, Cerner, Citrix,
Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Hortonworks, HP, IBM, InMotion Hosting, iSigma, Matt
Mullenweg, Microsoft, Pivotal, Produban, WANdisco, and Yahoo. For more information, visit
http://www.apache.org/ or follow https://twitter.com/TheASF
Â© The Apache Software Foundation. "Apache", "Apache HTTP Server", and "ApacheCon", are trademarks
of The Apache Software Foundation. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.
# # #
[MEDIA CONTACT:SALLY] ________________________________
mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
Thanks, Greg!
That works --better to be a bit wordy and clear vs. brief and vague <g>
We can always write "QUOTE," said Greg Stein, ASF Vice Chairman (and co-creator of the GSoC
program, while working at Google in 2005).
Now for the quote itself... I'll put that in the draft that I'll be sending over later.
Cheers & chat soon, Sally
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
Sure, that sounds great! âŠ are you looking for something like "co-creator of the GSoC program,
while working at Google in 2005" ?? That's a bit of a mouthful, but is that the direction you're
thinking?
And please go ahead an draft up a quote. I'm not quite sure the angle you're looking at, so best
if you go first :-)
Thx, -g
Greg,

Post by Sally Khudairi
Really? I had it in the "Did You Know?" section last week as 10th also.
AND, more importantly, if my calculations are off, then in
https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/date/20141119
the 2013 entry as "eighth consecutive year" is wrong too.
Who has the correct count? It really is 11? Not that I don't trust you, I now am feeling
quite lost.
Cheers, Sally
13 March 2015, 17:09
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
Hey Sally,
I just read the announcement and it says "The ASF has been accepted as a Google Summer of
Code mentoring organization for the 10th consecutive year".
If I'm not mistaken it's the 11th year ;)
Cheers,
Uli

Thanks, Uli. I did post about it in our weekly news round-up. Happy to work with you on a
press release. Who is the ASF lead on GSoC. You? Who from ComDev will be at ApacheCon? Are
you planning to do something special there? Cheers,Sally From: Ulrich StÃ€rk
12 March 2015, 13:31 Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google
Summer of Code 2015
And again recycling this. I think we missed 2014 so I want to make sure to get an
announcement out this year.
Cheers,
Uli

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
Recycling last years email on the topic. All dates and links updated. It would be cool if
we could get this out asap. Is there anything else you need?
Uli
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Apache Software Foundation accepted as a
mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2012 Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:21:40
Hey Sally & Co.,
this year we won't forget to provide you with some infos on our GSoC endeavours.
Yesterday, we have been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code
2015 [1],[2]. This means that over the summer, our committers will mentor students that
are sponsored by Google and will be working on our projects. The program helps us not
only to get some code written but also to introduce students into open source development
and hopefully recruit some new long-term committers. More information on the program is
available at [3]. Students are now encouraged to discuss ideas with the respective
projects and begin drafting proposals. An extensive list of already existing project
ideas is available at [4]. The actual application phase is from March 16 until March 27,
coding will take place from May 25 to August 21. See [5] for the detailed timeline.
publishing?
Thanks,
Uli
[1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015 [2]
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/apache [3]
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2015/help_page
[4] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas [5]
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2015

Sally Khudairi

2015-03-15 22:13:19 UTC

Hello again!

Below is the revised version that incorporates your changes, Uli. If you can please let me know if this meets your approval, I'd appreciate it!

Warm regards,
Sally

= = =

DRAFT :: NOT FOR DISSEMINATION

The Apache Software Foundation Accepted as a Google Summer of Code 2015 Mentoring Organization

Hundreds of students mentored in "The Apache Way" of community-driven development since the program's inception in 2005.

Forest Hill, MD –17 March 2015– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today that it has been accepted as a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) mentoring organization for the 11th consecutive year.

The Google Summer of Code program offers student developers stipends to write code for various Open Source projects over a three month period. This year, students will be paired with mentors from 137 Open Source, free software, and technology-related groups that include CERN, GNU Project, KDE, MIT Media Lab, WikiMedia Foundation, and many more.

The ASF was amongst the initial 39 organizations selected to participate in the very first GSoC in 2005, and has participated every year since. At the ASF, the GSoC program is overseen by the Apache Community Development project, which comprises volunteers who help guide newcomers to The Apache Software Foundation, provide insight and advice on The Apache Way of meritocratic development, including how to contribute to Apache projects and to the Open Source community at-large.

"Over the summer, Apache Committers will mentor students that are sponsored by Google and will be working on many of our projects," said Ulrich Stärk, Vice President of Community Development at the ASF. "The program helps us to not only get some great code written, but also to introduce students into Open Source development and hopefully recruit some new long-term Committers."

Students are encouraged to discuss ideas with mentoring organizations and finalize proposals for projects of interest by the 27 March deadline. ASF mentors have proposed 129 ideas for Apache projects in Big Data, Cloud, Enterprise Integration, Enterprise Search, Project Management, Semantic Web & Linked Data, along with other categories. Students may choose from the Apache "Ideas Page" at http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas or suggest their own project for approval. Coding will begin 25 May and end 21 August.

"GSoC gives students the chance to work on industry-leading Open Source projects, collaborate with diverse communities, and gain real world experience related to their academic pursuits," added Stärk. "We are proud to have mentored so many talented students over the years, and furthered our mission of providing software products for the public good. It's a rewarding experience both for the students and the Apache community at-large."

Since the program's inception, GSoC has brought together over 8,500 successful student participants from over countries and over 8,000 mentors from 109 countries worldwide to produce over 55 million lines of code.

"Being accepted once again as a Google Summer of Code mentoring organization reinforces The Apache Software Foundation's leadership in community-driven development," said ASF Vice Chairman Greg Stein, who, in 2005 co-created the GSoC program while working at Google. "Hundreds of students have been mentored in 'The Apache Way' --many have continued on to become long-term code committers on a variety of Apache projects, with some active program participants elected as ASF Members."

Information on the ASF's participation in Google Summer of Code is available at http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html

About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than 350 leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server --the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way," more than 500 individual Members and 4,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(c)(3) charitable organization, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including Budget Direct, Cerner, Citrix, Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Hortonworks, HP, IBM, InMotion Hosting, iSigma, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, Pivotal, Produban, WANdisco, and Yahoo. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/ or follow https://twitter.com/TheASF

© The Apache Software Foundation. "Apache", "Apache HTTP Server", and "ApacheCon", are trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

# # #

________________________________
From: Ulrich Stärk <***@spielviel.de>
To: Sally Khudairi <***@yahoo.com>
Cc: "***@community.apache.org" <***@community.apache.org>; Greg Stein <***@gmail.com>; "***@apache.org" <***@apache.org>; Sally Khudairi <***@apache.org>
Sent: Sunday, 15 March 2015, 17:48
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015

Hi Sally,

I think they are great as they are. Thanks a lot!

Cheers,

Uli

Am 15.03.2015 um 22:37 schrieb Sally Khudairi <***@yahoo.com>:

Thanks, Uli!

Post by Sally Khudairi
I'll incorporate your suggestions and forward the revised draft shortly.
How do you feel about your proposed quotes?
Chat soon,
Sally
[From the mobile; please excuse top-posting, spelling/spacing errors, and brevity]
----- Reply message -----
Subject: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
Date: Sun, Mar 15, 2015 17:14
Hi everyone --as promised, below is the draft announcement.
Please review and forward any additions/corrections no later than 5PM ET tomorrow (Monday) in
order for us to announce on Tuesday. Should we be able to finalize before then (by 9PM ET TODAY),
we can go live Monday morning if you'd like. Also, if someone can please update the ASF
boilerplate at http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/apache to the one at the
bottom of the draft announcement (below), that would be great. Will do. >
Thanks so much, Sally
= = =
DRAFT :: NOT FOR DISSEMINATION
The Apache Software Foundation Accepted as a Google Summer of Code 2015 Mentoring Organization
Hundreds of students mentored in "The Apache Way" of community-driven development since the
program's inception in 2005.
Forest Hill, MD –17 March 2015– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer
developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives,
announced today that it has been accepted as a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) mentoring
organization for the 11th consecutive year.
The Google Summer of Code program offers student developers stipends to write code for various
Open Source projects over a three month period. This year, students will be paired with mentors
from 137 Open Source, free software, and technology-related groups that include CERN, GNU
Project, KDE, MIT Media Lab, WikiMedia Foundation, and many more.
The ASF was amongst the initial 39 organizations selected to participate in the very first GSoC
in 2005, and has participated every year since. At the ASF, the GSoC program is overseen by the
Apache Community Development project, which comprises volunteers who help guide newcomers to The
Apache Software Foundation, provide insight and advice on The Apache Way of meritocratic
development, including how to contribute to Apache projects and to the Open Source community
at-large.
"Over the summer, Apache Committers will mentor students that are sponsored by Google and will be
working on many of our projects," said Ulrich Stärk, Vice President of Community Development at
the ASF. "The program helps us to not only get some great code written, but also to introduce
students into Open Source development and hopefully recruit some new long-term Committers."
Now through 27 March, students are encouraged to discuss ideas with mentoring organizations and
begin drafting proposals for those projects of interest. Coding will begin 25 May and end 21 I'd make it more clear that March 27 is the student application *deadline*. To me "begin drafting"

sounds like they could start only then (but then I'm not a native speaker so it could totally be OK
to write it like that). > August. Thus far, 33 ideas have been proposed for Apache projects in Big Data, Cloud, Enterprise

Post by Sally Khudairi
Integration, Enterprise Search, Project Management, Semantic Web & Linked Data, along with other
categories. The complete Apache "Ideas Page" is at http://s.apache.org/cDg That sounds a bit as if students have already submitted ideas for projects, which is not the case.

We (our mentors) have created a list of project ideas (the official URL is http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas) from which students may choose (or better yet, come up with
something on their own). Currently that list has 129 entries. >

Post by Sally Khudairi
"GSoC gives students the chance to work on industry-leading Open Source projects, collaborate
with diverse communities, and gain real world experience related to their academic pursuits,"
added Stärk. "We are proud to have mentored so many talented students over the years, and
furthered our mission of providing software products for the public good. It's a rewarding
experience both for the students and the Apache community at-large."
Since the program's inception, GSoC has brought together over 8,500 successful student
participants from over countries and over 8,000 mentors from 109 countries worldwide to produce
over 55 million lines of code.
"Being accepted once again as a Google Summer of Code mentoring organization reinforces The
Apache Software Foundation's leadership in community-driven development," said ASF Vice Chairman
Greg Stein, who, in 2005 co-created the GSoC program while working at Google. "Hundreds of
students have been mentored in 'The Apache Way' --many have continued on to become long-term code
committers on a variety of Apache projects, with some active program participants elected as ASF
Members."
Information on the ASF's participation in Google Summer of Code is available at
http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html >
About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation
oversees more than 350 leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server --the world's
most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as "The Apache
Way," more than 500 individual Members and 4,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop
freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of
software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively
participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's
official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(c)(3) charitable organization,
funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including Budget Direct, Cerner, Citrix,
Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Hortonworks, HP, IBM, InMotion Hosting, iSigma, Matt
Mullenweg, Microsoft, Pivotal, Produban, WANdisco, and Yahoo. For more information, visit
http://www.apache.org/ or follow https://twitter.com/TheASF >
© The Apache Software Foundation. "Apache", "Apache HTTP Server", and "ApacheCon", are trademarks
of The Apache Software Foundation. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.
# # #
[MEDIA CONTACT:SALLY] ________________________________
mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
Thanks, Greg!
That works --better to be a bit wordy and clear vs. brief and vague <g>
We can always write "QUOTE," said Greg Stein, ASF Vice Chairman (and co-creator of the GSoC
program, while working at Google in 2005).
Now for the quote itself... I'll put that in the draft that I'll be sending over later.
Cheers & chat soon, Sally
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
Sure, that sounds great! … are you looking for something like "co-creator of the GSoC program,
while working at Google in 2005" ?? That's a bit of a mouthful, but is that the direction you're
thinking?
And please go ahead an draft up a quote. I'm not quite sure the angle you're looking at, so best
if you go first :-)
Thx, -g
Greg,

Post by Sally Khudairi
Really? I had it in the "Did You Know?" section last week as 10th also.
AND, more importantly, if my calculations are off, then in
https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/date/20141119 >>>
the 2013 entry as "eighth consecutive year" is wrong too.
Who has the correct count? It really is 11? Not that I don't trust you, I now am feeling
quite lost.
Cheers, Sally
13 March 2015, 17:09
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
Hey Sally,
I just read the announcement and it says "The ASF has been accepted as a Google Summer of
Code mentoring organization for the 10th consecutive year".
If I'm not mistaken it's the 11th year ;)
Cheers,
Uli

Thanks, Uli. I did post about it in our weekly news round-up. Happy to work with you on a
press release. Who is the ASF lead on GSoC. You? Who from ComDev will be at ApacheCon? Are
you planning to do something special there? Cheers,Sally From: Ulrich Stärk
12 March 2015, 13:31 Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google
Summer of Code 2015
And again recycling this. I think we missed 2014 so I want to make sure to get an
announcement out this year.
Cheers,
Uli

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
Recycling last years email on the topic. All dates and links updated. It would be cool if
we could get this out asap. Is there anything else you need?
Uli
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Apache Software Foundation accepted as a
mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2012 Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:21:40
Hey Sally & Co.,
this year we won't forget to provide you with some infos on our GSoC endeavours.
Yesterday, we have been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code
2015 [1],[2]. This means that over the summer, our committers will mentor students that
are sponsored by Google and will be working on our projects. The program helps us not
only to get some code written but also to introduce students into open source development
and hopefully recruit some new long-term committers. More information on the program is
available at [3]. Students are now encouraged to discuss ideas with the respective
projects and begin drafting proposals. An extensive list of already existing project
ideas is available at [4]. The actual application phase is from March 16 until March 27,
coding will take place from May 25 to August 21. See [5] for the detailed timeline.
publishing?
Thanks,
Uli
[1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015 [2]
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/apache [3]
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2015/help_page >>>>> [4] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas [5]
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2015 >>>>>

Ulrich Stärk

2015-03-16 08:22:21 UTC

Looks good to me. Thanks a ton Sally!

Cheers,

Uli

Post by Sally Khudairi
Hello again!
Below is the revised version that incorporates your changes, Uli. If you can please let me know if this meets your approval, I'd appreciate it!
Warm regards,
Sally
= = =
DRAFT :: NOT FOR DISSEMINATION
The Apache Software Foundation Accepted as a Google Summer of Code 2015 Mentoring Organization
Hundreds of students mentored in "The Apache Way" of community-driven development since the program's inception in 2005.
Forest Hill, MD –17 March 2015– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today that it has been accepted as a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) mentoring organization for the 11th consecutive year.
The Google Summer of Code program offers student developers stipends to write code for various Open Source projects over a three month period. This year, students will be paired with mentors from 137 Open Source, free software, and technology-related groups that include CERN, GNU Project, KDE, MIT Media Lab, WikiMedia Foundation, and many more.
The ASF was amongst the initial 39 organizations selected to participate in the very first GSoC in 2005, and has participated every year since. At the ASF, the GSoC program is overseen by the Apache Community Development project, which comprises volunteers who help guide newcomers to The Apache Software Foundation, provide insight and advice on The Apache Way of meritocratic development, including how to contribute to Apache projects and to the Open Source community at-large.
"Over the summer, Apache Committers will mentor students that are sponsored by Google and will be working on many of our projects," said Ulrich Stärk, Vice President of Community Development at the ASF. "The program helps us to not only get some great code written, but also to introduce students into Open Source development and hopefully recruit some new long-term Committers."
Students are encouraged to discuss ideas with mentoring organizations and finalize proposals for projects of interest by the 27 March deadline. ASF mentors have proposed 129 ideas for Apache projects in Big Data, Cloud, Enterprise Integration, Enterprise Search, Project Management, Semantic Web & Linked Data, along with other categories. Students may choose from the Apache "Ideas Page" at http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas or suggest their own project for approval. Coding will begin 25 May and end 21 August.
"GSoC gives students the chance to work on industry-leading Open Source projects, collaborate with diverse communities, and gain real world experience related to their academic pursuits," added Stärk. "We are proud to have mentored so many talented students over the years, and furthered our mission of providing software products for the public good. It's a rewarding experience both for the students and the Apache community at-large."
Since the program's inception, GSoC has brought together over 8,500 successful student participants from over countries and over 8,000 mentors from 109 countries worldwide to produce over 55 million lines of code.
"Being accepted once again as a Google Summer of Code mentoring organization reinforces The Apache Software Foundation's leadership in community-driven development," said ASF Vice Chairman Greg Stein, who, in 2005 co-created the GSoC program while working at Google. "Hundreds of students have been mentored in 'The Apache Way' --many have continued on to become long-term code committers on a variety of Apache projects, with some active program participants elected as ASF Members."
Information on the ASF's participation in Google Summer of Code is available at http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html
About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than 350 leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server --the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way," more than 500 individual Members and 4,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(c)(3) charitable organization, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including Budget Direct, Cerner, Citrix, Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Hortonworks, HP, IBM, InMotion Hosting, iSigma, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, Pivotal, Produban, WANdisco, and Yahoo. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/ or follow https://twitter.com/TheASF
© The Apache Software Foundation. "Apache", "Apache HTTP Server", and "ApacheCon", are trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
# # #
________________________________
Sent: Sunday, 15 March 2015, 17:48
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
Hi Sally,
I think they are great as they are. Thanks a lot!
Cheers,
Uli
Thanks, Uli!

Post by Sally Khudairi
"GSoC gives students the chance to work on industry-leading Open Source projects, collaborate
with diverse communities, and gain real world experience related to their academic pursuits,"
added Stärk. "We are proud to have mentored so many talented students over the years, and
furthered our mission of providing software products for the public good. It's a rewarding
experience both for the students and the Apache community at-large."
Since the program's inception, GSoC has brought together over 8,500 successful student
participants from over countries and over 8,000 mentors from 109 countries worldwide to produce
over 55 million lines of code.
"Being accepted once again as a Google Summer of Code mentoring organization reinforces The
Apache Software Foundation's leadership in community-driven development," said ASF Vice Chairman
Greg Stein, who, in 2005 co-created the GSoC program while working at Google. "Hundreds of
students have been mentored in 'The Apache Way' --many have continued on to become long-term code
committers on a variety of Apache projects, with some active program participants elected as ASF
Members."
Information on the ASF's participation in Google Summer of Code is available at
http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html >
About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation
oversees more than 350 leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server --the world's
most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as "The Apache
Way," more than 500 individual Members and 4,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop
freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of
software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively
participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's
official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(c)(3) charitable organization,
funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including Budget Direct, Cerner, Citrix,
Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Hortonworks, HP, IBM, InMotion Hosting, iSigma, Matt
Mullenweg, Microsoft, Pivotal, Produban, WANdisco, and Yahoo. For more information, visit
http://www.apache.org/ or follow https://twitter.com/TheASF >
© The Apache Software Foundation. "Apache", "Apache HTTP Server", and "ApacheCon", are trademarks
of The Apache Software Foundation. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.
# # #
[MEDIA CONTACT:SALLY] ________________________________
mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
Thanks, Greg!
That works --better to be a bit wordy and clear vs. brief and vague <g>
We can always write "QUOTE," said Greg Stein, ASF Vice Chairman (and co-creator of the GSoC
program, while working at Google in 2005).
Now for the quote itself... I'll put that in the draft that I'll be sending over later.
Cheers & chat soon, Sally
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
Sure, that sounds great! … are you looking for something like "co-creator of the GSoC program,
while working at Google in 2005" ?? That's a bit of a mouthful, but is that the direction you're
thinking?
And please go ahead an draft up a quote. I'm not quite sure the angle you're looking at, so best
if you go first :-)
Thx, -g
Greg,

Post by Sally Khudairi
Really? I had it in the "Did You Know?" section last week as 10th also.
AND, more importantly, if my calculations are off, then in
https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/date/20141119 >>>
the 2013 entry as "eighth consecutive year" is wrong too.
Who has the correct count? It really is 11? Not that I don't trust you, I now am feeling
quite lost.
Cheers, Sally
13 March 2015, 17:09
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
Hey Sally,
I just read the announcement and it says "The ASF has been accepted as a Google Summer of
Code mentoring organization for the 10th consecutive year".
If I'm not mistaken it's the 11th year ;)
Cheers,
Uli

Thanks, Uli. I did post about it in our weekly news round-up. Happy to work with you on a
press release. Who is the ASF lead on GSoC. You? Who from ComDev will be at ApacheCon? Are
you planning to do something special there? Cheers,Sally From: Ulrich Stärk
12 March 2015, 13:31 Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google
Summer of Code 2015
And again recycling this. I think we missed 2014 so I want to make sure to get an
announcement out this year.
Cheers,
Uli

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
Recycling last years email on the topic. All dates and links updated. It would be cool if
we could get this out asap. Is there anything else you need?
Uli
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Apache Software Foundation accepted as a
mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2012 Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:21:40
Hey Sally & Co.,
this year we won't forget to provide you with some infos on our GSoC endeavours.
Yesterday, we have been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code
2015 [1],[2]. This means that over the summer, our committers will mentor students that
are sponsored by Google and will be working on our projects. The program helps us not
only to get some code written but also to introduce students into open source development
and hopefully recruit some new long-term committers. More information on the program is
available at [3]. Students are now encouraged to discuss ideas with the respective
projects and begin drafting proposals. An extensive list of already existing project
ideas is available at [4]. The actual application phase is from March 16 until March 27,
coding will take place from May 25 to August 21. See [5] for the detailed timeline.
publishing?
Thanks,
Uli
[1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015 [2]
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/apache [3]
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2015/help_page >>>>> [4] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas [5]
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2015 >>>>>

Sally Khudairi

2015-03-16 08:29:58 UTC

Fantastic --thanks, Uli!

Now we wait for Greg. I'll be issuing this announcement early tomorrow morning ET (UTC -5). I presume that's OK with you, yes?

Also, does ComDev have a Twitter handle?

Warm regards,
Sally

[From the mobile; please excuse top-posting, spelling/spacing errors, and brevity]

----- Reply message -----
From: "Ulrich StÃ€rk" <***@spielviel.de>
To: "***@community.apache.org" <***@community.apache.org>
Cc: "Greg Stein" <***@gmail.com>, "***@apache.org" <***@apache.org>, "Sally Khudairi" <***@apache.org>
Subject: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
Date: Mon, Mar 16, 2015 04:22

Looks good to me. Thanks a ton Sally!

Cheers,

Uli

Post by Sally Khudairi
Hello again!
Below is the revised version that incorporates your changes, Uli. If you can please let me know if this meets your approval, I'd appreciate it!
Warm regards,
Sally
= = =
DRAFT :: NOT FOR DISSEMINATION
The Apache Software Foundation Accepted as a Google Summer of Code 2015 Mentoring Organization
Hundreds of students mentored in "The Apache Way" of community-driven development since the program's inception in 2005.
Forest Hill, MD â17 March 2015â The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today that it has been accepted as a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) mentoring organization for the 11th consecutive year.
The Google Summer of Code program offers student developers stipends to write code for various Open Source projects over a three month period. This year, students will be paired with mentors from 137 Open Source, free software, and technology-related groups that include CERN, GNU Project, KDE, MIT Media Lab, WikiMedia Foundation, and many more.
The ASF was amongst the initial 39 organizations selected to participate in the very first GSoC in 2005, and has participated every year since. At the ASF, the GSoC program is overseen by the Apache Community Development project, which comprises volunteers who help guide newcomers to The Apache Software Foundation, provide insight and advice on The Apache Way of meritocratic development, including how to contribute to Apache projects and to the Open Source community at-large.
"Over the summer, Apache Committers will mentor students that are sponsored by Google and will be working on many of our projects," said Ulrich StÃ€rk, Vice President of Community Development at the ASF. "The program helps us to not only get some great code written, but also to introduce students into Open Source development and hopefully recruit some new long-term Committers."
Students are encouraged to discuss ideas with mentoring organizations and finalize proposals for projects of interest by the 27 March deadline. ASF mentors have proposed 129 ideas for Apache projects in Big Data, Cloud, Enterprise Integration, Enterprise Search, Project Management, Semantic Web & Linked Data, along with other categories. Students may choose from the Apache "Ideas Page" at http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas or suggest their own project for approval. Coding will begin 25 May and end 21 August.
"GSoC gives students the chance to work on industry-leading Open Source projects, collaborate with diverse communities, and gain real world experience related to their academic pursuits," added StÃ€rk. "We are proud to have mentored so many talented students over the years, and furthered our mission of providing software products for the public good. It's a rewarding experience both for the students and the Apache community at-large."
Since the program's inception, GSoC has brought together over 8,500 successful student participants from over countries and over 8,000 mentors from 109 countries worldwide to produce over 55 million lines of code.
"Being accepted once again as a Google Summer of Code mentoring organization reinforces The Apache Software Foundation's leadership in community-driven development," said ASF Vice Chairman Greg Stein, who, in 2005 co-created the GSoC program while working at Google. "Hundreds of students have been mentored in 'The Apache Way' --many have continued on to become long-term code committers on a variety of Apache projects, with some active program participants elected as ASF Members."
Information on the ASF's participation in Google Summer of Code is available at http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html
About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than 350 leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server --the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way," more than 500 individual Members and 4,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(c)(3) charitable organization, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including Budget Direct, Cerner, Citrix, Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Hortonworks, HP, IBM, InMotion Hosting, iSigma, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, Pivotal, Produban, WANdisco, and Yahoo. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/ or follow https://twitter.com/TheASF
Â© The Apache Software Foundation. "Apache", "Apache HTTP Server", and "ApacheCon", are trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
# # #
________________________________
Sent: Sunday, 15 March 2015, 17:48
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
Hi Sally,
I think they are great as they are. Thanks a lot!
Cheers,
Uli
Thanks, Uli!

Post by Sally Khudairi
I'll incorporate your suggestions and forward the revised draft shortly.
How do you feel about your proposed quotes?
Chat soon,
Sally
[From the mobile; please excuse top-posting, spelling/spacing errors, and brevity]
----- Reply message -----
Subject: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
Date: Sun, Mar 15, 2015 17:14
Hi everyone --as promised, below is the draft announcement.
Please review and forward any additions/corrections no later than 5PM ET tomorrow (Monday) in
order for us to announce on Tuesday. Should we be able to finalize before then (by 9PM ET TODAY),
we can go live Monday morning if you'd like. Also, if someone can please update the ASF
boilerplate at http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/apache to the one at the
bottom of the draft announcement (below), that would be great. Will do. >
Thanks so much, Sally
= = =
DRAFT :: NOT FOR DISSEMINATION
The Apache Software Foundation Accepted as a Google Summer of Code 2015 Mentoring Organization
Hundreds of students mentored in "The Apache Way" of community-driven development since the
program's inception in 2005.
Forest Hill, MD â17 March 2015â The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer
developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives,
announced today that it has been accepted as a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) mentoring
organization for the 11th consecutive year.
The Google Summer of Code program offers student developers stipends to write code for various
Open Source projects over a three month period. This year, students will be paired with mentors
from 137 Open Source, free software, and technology-related groups that include CERN, GNU
Project, KDE, MIT Media Lab, WikiMedia Foundation, and many more.
The ASF was amongst the initial 39 organizations selected to participate in the very first GSoC
in 2005, and has participated every year since. At the ASF, the GSoC program is overseen by the
Apache Community Development project, which comprises volunteers who help guide newcomers to The
Apache Software Foundation, provide insight and advice on The Apache Way of meritocratic
development, including how to contribute to Apache projects and to the Open Source community
at-large.
"Over the summer, Apache Committers will mentor students that are sponsored by Google and will be
working on many of our projects," said Ulrich StÃ€rk, Vice President of Community Development at
the ASF. "The program helps us to not only get some great code written, but also to introduce
students into Open Source development and hopefully recruit some new long-term Committers."
Now through 27 March, students are encouraged to discuss ideas with mentoring organizations and
begin drafting proposals for those projects of interest. Coding will begin 25 May and end 21 I'd make it more clear that March 27 is the student application *deadline*. To me "begin drafting"

Post by Sally Khudairi
"GSoC gives students the chance to work on industry-leading Open Source projects, collaborate
with diverse communities, and gain real world experience related to their academic pursuits,"
added StÃ€rk. "We are proud to have mentored so many talented students over the years, and
furthered our mission of providing software products for the public good. It's a rewarding
experience both for the students and the Apache community at-large."
Since the program's inception, GSoC has brought together over 8,500 successful student
participants from over countries and over 8,000 mentors from 109 countries worldwide to produce
over 55 million lines of code.
"Being accepted once again as a Google Summer of Code mentoring organization reinforces The
Apache Software Foundation's leadership in community-driven development," said ASF Vice Chairman
Greg Stein, who, in 2005 co-created the GSoC program while working at Google. "Hundreds of
students have been mentored in 'The Apache Way' --many have continued on to become long-term code
committers on a variety of Apache projects, with some active program participants elected as ASF
Members."
Information on the ASF's participation in Google Summer of Code is available at
http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html >
About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation
oversees more than 350 leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server --the world's
most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as "The Apache
Way," more than 500 individual Members and 4,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop
freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of
software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively
participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's
official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(c)(3) charitable organization,
funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including Budget Direct, Cerner, Citrix,
Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Hortonworks, HP, IBM, InMotion Hosting, iSigma, Matt
Mullenweg, Microsoft, Pivotal, Produban, WANdisco, and Yahoo. For more information, visit
http://www.apache.org/ or follow https://twitter.com/TheASF >
Â© The Apache Software Foundation. "Apache", "Apache HTTP Server", and "ApacheCon", are trademarks
of The Apache Software Foundation. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.
# # #
[MEDIA CONTACT:SALLY] ________________________________
mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
Thanks, Greg!
That works --better to be a bit wordy and clear vs. brief and vague <g>
We can always write "QUOTE," said Greg Stein, ASF Vice Chairman (and co-creator of the GSoC
program, while working at Google in 2005).
Now for the quote itself... I'll put that in the draft that I'll be sending over later.
Cheers & chat soon, Sally
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
Sure, that sounds great! âŠ are you looking for something like "co-creator of the GSoC program,
while working at Google in 2005" ?? That's a bit of a mouthful, but is that the direction you're
thinking?
And please go ahead an draft up a quote. I'm not quite sure the angle you're looking at, so best
if you go first :-)
Thx, -g
Greg,

Post by Sally Khudairi
Really? I had it in the "Did You Know?" section last week as 10th also.
AND, more importantly, if my calculations are off, then in
https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/date/20141119 >>>
the 2013 entry as "eighth consecutive year" is wrong too.
Who has the correct count? It really is 11? Not that I don't trust you, I now am feeling
quite lost.
Cheers, Sally
13 March 2015, 17:09
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
Hey Sally,
I just read the announcement and it says "The ASF has been accepted as a Google Summer of
Code mentoring organization for the 10th consecutive year".
If I'm not mistaken it's the 11th year ;)
Cheers,
Uli

Thanks, Uli. I did post about it in our weekly news round-up. Happy to work with you on a
press release. Who is the ASF lead on GSoC. You? Who from ComDev will be at ApacheCon? Are
you planning to do something special there? Cheers,Sally From: Ulrich StÃ€rk
12 March 2015, 13:31 Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google
Summer of Code 2015
And again recycling this. I think we missed 2014 so I want to make sure to get an
announcement out this year.
Cheers,
Uli

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
Recycling last years email on the topic. All dates and links updated. It would be cool if
we could get this out asap. Is there anything else you need?
Uli
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Apache Software Foundation accepted as a
mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2012 Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:21:40
Hey Sally & Co.,
this year we won't forget to provide you with some infos on our GSoC endeavours.
Yesterday, we have been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code
2015 [1],[2]. This means that over the summer, our committers will mentor students that
are sponsored by Google and will be working on our projects. The program helps us not
only to get some code written but also to introduce students into open source development
and hopefully recruit some new long-term committers. More information on the program is
available at [3]. Students are now encouraged to discuss ideas with the respective
projects and begin drafting proposals. An extensive list of already existing project
ideas is available at [4]. The actual application phase is from March 16 until March 27,
coding will take place from May 25 to August 21. See [5] for the detailed timeline.
publishing?
Thanks,
Uli
[1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015 [2]
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/apache [3]
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2015/help_page >>>>> [4] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas [5]
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2015 >>>>>

Ulrich Stärk

2015-03-16 16:27:13 UTC

I'm fine with whatever schedule suits you best ;)

And no, to my knowledge, ComDev does not have its own Twitter handle.

Cheers,

Uli

Post by Sally Khudairi
Fantastic --thanks, Uli!
Now we wait for Greg. I'll be issuing this announcement early tomorrow
morning ET (UTC -5). I presume that's OK with you, yes?
Also, does ComDev have a Twitter handle?
Warm regards,
Sally
[From the mobile; please excuse top-posting, spelling/spacing errors, and brevity]
----- Reply message -----
Subject: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
Date: Mon, Mar 16, 2015 04:22
Looks good to me. Thanks a ton Sally!
Cheers,
Uli

Post by Sally Khudairi
Hello again!
Below is the revised version that incorporates your changes, Uli. If you
can please let me know if this meets your approval, I'd appreciate it!
Warm regards,
Sally
= = =
DRAFT :: NOT FOR DISSEMINATION
The Apache Software Foundation Accepted as a Google Summer of Code 2015
Mentoring Organization
Hundreds of students mentored in "The Apache Way" of community-driven
development since the program's inception in 2005.
Forest Hill, MD –17 March 2015– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF),
the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350
Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today that it has been
accepted as a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) mentoring organization for
the 11th consecutive year.
The Google Summer of Code program offers student developers stipends to
write code for various Open Source projects over a three month period.
This year, students will be paired with mentors from 137 Open Source,
free software, and technology-related groups that include CERN, GNU
Project, KDE, MIT Media Lab, WikiMedia Foundation, and many more.
The ASF was amongst the initial 39 organizations selected to participate
in the very first GSoC in 2005, and has participated every year since.
At the ASF, the GSoC program is overseen by the Apache Community
Development project, which comprises volunteers who help guide newcomers
to The Apache Software Foundation, provide insight and advice on The
Apache Way of meritocratic development, including how to contribute to
Apache projects and to the Open Source community at-large.
"Over the summer, Apache Committers will mentor students that are
sponsored by Google and will be working on many of our projects," said
Ulrich Stärk, Vice President of Community Development at the ASF. "The
program helps us to not only get some great code written, but also to
introduce students into Open Source development and hopefully recruit
some new long-term Committers."
Students are encouraged to discuss ideas with mentoring organizations
and finalize proposals for projects of interest by the 27 March
deadline. ASF mentors have proposed 129 ideas for Apache projects in Big
Data, Cloud, Enterprise Integration, Enterprise Search, Project
Management, Semantic Web & Linked Data, along with other categories.
Students may choose from the Apache "Ideas Page" at
http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas or suggest their own project for
approval. Coding will begin 25 May and end 21 August.
"GSoC gives students the chance to work on industry-leading Open Source
projects, collaborate with diverse communities, and gain real world
experience related to their academic pursuits," added Stärk. "We are
proud to have mentored so many talented students over the years, and
furthered our mission of providing software products for the public
good. It's a rewarding experience both for the students and the Apache
community at-large."
Since the program's inception, GSoC has brought together over 8,500
successful student participants from over countries and over 8,000
mentors from 109 countries worldwide to produce over 55 million lines of
code.
"Being accepted once again as a Google Summer of Code mentoring
organization reinforces The Apache Software Foundation's leadership in
community-driven development," said ASF Vice Chairman Greg Stein, who,
in 2005 co-created the GSoC program while working at Google. "Hundreds
of students have been mentored in 'The Apache Way' --many have continued
on to become long-term code committers on a variety of Apache projects,
with some active program participants elected as ASF Members."
Information on the ASF's participation in Google Summer of Code is
available at http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html
About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than 350
leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server --the world's
most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process
known as "The Apache Way," more than 500 individual Members and 4,500
Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available
thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache
License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists,
mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user
conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(c)(3) charitable
organization, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors
including Budget Direct, Cerner, Citrix, Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook,
Google, Hortonworks, HP, IBM, InMotion Hosting, iSigma, Matt Mullenweg,
Microsoft, Pivotal, Produban, WANdisco, and Yahoo. For more information,
visit http://www.apache.org/ or follow https://twitter.com/TheASF
© The Apache Software Foundation. "Apache", "Apache HTTP Server", and
"ApacheCon", are trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation. All other
brands and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
# # #
________________________________
Sent: Sunday, 15 March 2015, 17:48
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
Hi Sally,
I think they are great as they are. Thanks a lot!
Cheers,
Uli
Thanks, Uli!

Post by Sally Khudairi
I'll incorporate your suggestions and forward the revised draft shortly.
How do you feel about your proposed quotes?
Chat soon,
Sally
[From the mobile; please excuse top-posting, spelling/spacing errors, and brevity]
----- Reply message -----
Subject: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
Date: Sun, Mar 15, 2015 17:14
Thank you Sally, my two comments are inline. Cheers, Uli On 2015-03-15
Hi everyone --as promised, below is the draft announcement.
Please review and forward any additions/corrections no later than 5PM
ET tomorrow (Monday) in
order for us to announce on Tuesday. Should we be able to finalize
before then (by 9PM ET TODAY),
we can go live Monday morning if you'd like. Also, if someone can please update the ASF
boilerplate at
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/apache to the
one at the
bottom of the draft announcement (below), that would be great. Will do.
Thanks so much, Sally
= = =
DRAFT :: NOT FOR DISSEMINATION
The Apache Software Foundation Accepted as a Google Summer of Code 2015
Mentoring Organization
Hundreds of students mentored in "The Apache Way" of community-driven
development since the
program's inception in 2005.
Forest Hill, MD –17 March 2015– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF),
the all-volunteer
developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source
projects and initiatives,
announced today that it has been accepted as a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) mentoring
organization for the 11th consecutive year.
The Google Summer of Code program offers student developers stipends to
write code for various
Open Source projects over a three month period. This year, students
will be paired with mentors
from 137 Open Source, free software, and technology-related groups that
include CERN, GNU
Project, KDE, MIT Media Lab, WikiMedia Foundation, and many more.
The ASF was amongst the initial 39 organizations selected to
participate in the very first GSoC
in 2005, and has participated every year since. At the ASF, the GSoC
program is overseen by the
Apache Community Development project, which comprises volunteers who
help guide newcomers to The
Apache Software Foundation, provide insight and advice on The Apache
Way of meritocratic
development, including how to contribute to Apache projects and to the
Open Source community
at-large.
"Over the summer, Apache Committers will mentor students that are
sponsored by Google and will be
working on many of our projects," said Ulrich Stärk, Vice President of
Community Development at
the ASF. "The program helps us to not only get some great code written,
but also to introduce
students into Open Source development and hopefully recruit some new
long-term Committers."
Now through 27 March, students are encouraged to discuss ideas with
mentoring organizations and
begin drafting proposals for those projects of interest. Coding will
begin 25 May and end 21 I'd make it more clear that March 27 is the
student application *deadline*. To me "begin drafting"

sounds like they could start only then (but then I'm not a native
speaker so it could totally be OK
to write it like that). > August. Thus far, 33 ideas have been proposed
for Apache projects in Big Data, Cloud, Enterprise

Post by Sally Khudairi
Integration, Enterprise Search, Project Management, Semantic Web &
Linked Data, along with other
categories. The complete Apache "Ideas Page" is at
http://s.apache.org/cDg That sounds a bit as if students have already
submitted ideas for projects, which is not the case.

We (our mentors) have created a list of project ideas (the official URL
is http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas) from which students may choose (or
better yet, come up with
something on their own). Currently that list has 129 entries. >

Post by Sally Khudairi
"GSoC gives students the chance to work on industry-leading Open Source
projects, collaborate
with diverse communities, and gain real world experience related to
their academic pursuits,"
added Stärk. "We are proud to have mentored so many talented students
over the years, and
furthered our mission of providing software products for the public
good. It's a rewarding
experience both for the students and the Apache community at-large."
Since the program's inception, GSoC has brought together over 8,500 successful student
participants from over countries and over 8,000 mentors from 109
countries worldwide to produce
over 55 million lines of code.
"Being accepted once again as a Google Summer of Code mentoring
organization reinforces The
Apache Software Foundation's leadership in community-driven
development," said ASF Vice Chairman
Greg Stein, who, in 2005 co-created the GSoC program while working at
Google. "Hundreds of
students have been mentored in 'The Apache Way' --many have continued
on to become long-term code
committers on a variety of Apache projects, with some active program
participants elected as ASF
Members."
Information on the ASF's participation in Google Summer of Code is available at
http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html >
About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the
all-volunteer Foundation
oversees more than 350 leading Open Source projects, including Apache
HTTP Server --the world's
most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic
process known as "The Apache
Way," more than 500 individual Members and 4,500 Committers
successfully collaborate to develop
freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of
users worldwide: thousands of
software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively
participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and
ApacheCon, the Foundation's
official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US
501(c)(3) charitable organization,
funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including Budget
Direct, Cerner, Citrix,
Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Hortonworks, HP, IBM, InMotion
Hosting, iSigma, Matt
Mullenweg, Microsoft, Pivotal, Produban, WANdisco, and Yahoo. For more
information, visit
http://www.apache.org/ or follow https://twitter.com/TheASF >
© The Apache Software Foundation. "Apache", "Apache HTTP Server", and
"ApacheCon", are trademarks
of The Apache Software Foundation. All other brands and trademarks are
the property of their
respective owners.
# # #
[MEDIA CONTACT:SALLY] ________________________________
Cc: Ulrich Stärk
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a
mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
Thanks, Greg!
That works --better to be a bit wordy and clear vs. brief and vague <g>
We can always write "QUOTE," said Greg Stein, ASF Vice Chairman (and
co-creator of the GSoC
program, while working at Google in 2005).
Now for the quote itself... I'll put that in the draft that I'll be sending over later.
Cheers & chat soon, Sally
14 March 2015, 18:36
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
Sure, that sounds great! … are you looking for something like
"co-creator of the GSoC program,
while working at Google in 2005" ?? That's a bit of a mouthful, but is
that the direction you're
thinking?
And please go ahead an draft up a quote. I'm not quite sure the angle
you're looking at, so best
if you go first :-)
Thx, -g
Greg,

Post by Sally Khudairi
I'd like to put a placeholder for a quote for you in the announcement
as well (the lead quote
will be coming from Uli).
How would you like to have your attribution described in relation to
GSoC? "ASF Vice Chairman
Of course, I'll be happy to get a quote directly from you (vs. having
to de-Sally-fy my
proposed blurb) :-)
If you don't want to be quoted, that's OK; I can use Ross as backup.
Thanks so much,
Sally
To: Sally Khudairi
March 2015, 17:22
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
The very first year was 2005. Thus, 2015 would be the 11th GSoC.
As one of the two people to launch/create GSoC, you can call me
authoritative on the dates :-P
Whaaaaat?

Post by Sally Khudairi
Really? I had it in the "Did You Know?" section last week as 10th also.
AND, more importantly, if my calculations are off, then in
https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/date/20141119 >>>
the 2013 entry as "eighth consecutive year" is wrong too.
Who has the correct count? It really is 11? Not that I don't trust
you, I now am feeling
quite lost.
Cheers, Sally
________________________________ From: Ulrich Stärk
13 March 2015, 17:09
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google
Summer of Code 2015
Hey Sally,
I just read the announcement and it says "The ASF has been accepted
as a Google Summer of
Code mentoring organization for the 10th consecutive year".
If I'm not mistaken it's the 11th year ;)
Cheers,
Uli

Thanks, Uli. I did post about it in our weekly news round-up. Happy
to work with you on a
press release. Who is the ASF lead on GSoC. You? Who from ComDev
will be at ApacheCon? Are
Ulrich Stärk
12 March 2015, 13:31 Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring
organization for Google
Summer of Code 2015
And again recycling this. I think we missed 2014 so I want to make sure to get an
announcement out this year.
Cheers,
Uli

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
Recycling last years email on the topic. All dates and links
updated. It would be cool if
we could get this out asap. Is there anything else you need?
Uli
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Apache Software
Foundation accepted as a
mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2012 Date: Sat, 17
Mar 2012 23:21:40
Hey Sally & Co.,
this year we won't forget to provide you with some infos on our
GSoC endeavours.
Yesterday, we have been accepted as a mentoring organization for
Google Summer of Code
2015 [1],[2]. This means that over the summer, our committers will
mentor students that
are sponsored by Google and will be working on our projects. The
program helps us not
only to get some code written but also to introduce students into
open source development
and hopefully recruit some new long-term committers. More
information on the program is
available at [3]. Students are now encouraged to discuss ideas with
the respective
projects and begin drafting proposals. An extensive list of already
existing project
ideas is available at [4]. The actual application phase is from
March 16 until March 27,
coding will take place from May 25 to August 21. See [5] for the
detailed timeline.
Can you please run any press release past us
publishing?
Thanks,
Uli
[1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015 [2]
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/apache [3]
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2015/help_page

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
[4] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas [5]

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2015 >>>>>

Sally Khudairi

2015-03-16 16:38:28 UTC

OK. Thanks, Uli!

Greg --does the proposed quote meet your approval?

Chat soon,
Sally

[From the mobile; please excuse top-posting, spelling/spacing errors, and brevity]

----- Reply message -----
From: ""Ulrich StÃ€rk"" <***@spielviel.de>
To: <***@community.apache.org>
Cc: <***@apache.org>, <***@apache.org>
Subject: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
Date: Mon, Mar 16, 2015 12:27

I'm fine with whatever schedule suits you best ;)

And no, to my knowledge, ComDev does not have its own Twitter handle.

Cheers,

Uli

Post by Sally Khudairi
Fantastic --thanks, Uli!
Now we wait for Greg. I'll be issuing this announcement early tomorrow
morning ET (UTC -5). I presume that's OK with you, yes?
Also, does ComDev have a Twitter handle?
Warm regards,
Sally
[From the mobile; please excuse top-posting, spelling/spacing errors, and
brevity]
----- Reply message -----
Subject: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of
Code 2015
Date: Mon, Mar 16, 2015 04:22
Looks good to me. Thanks a ton Sally!
Cheers,
Uli

Post by Sally Khudairi
Hello again!
Below is the revised version that incorporates your changes, Uli. If you
can please let me know if this meets your approval, I'd appreciate it!
Warm regards,
Sally
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DRAFT :: NOT FOR DISSEMINATION
The Apache Software Foundation Accepted as a Google Summer of Code 2015
Mentoring Organization
Hundreds of students mentored in "The Apache Way" of community-driven
development since the program's inception in 2005.
Forest Hill, MD â17 March 2015â The Apache Software Foundation (ASF),
the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350
Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today that it has been
accepted as a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) mentoring organization for
the 11th consecutive year.
The Google Summer of Code program offers student developers stipends to
write code for various Open Source projects over a three month period.
This year, students will be paired with mentors from 137 Open Source,
free software, and technology-related groups that include CERN, GNU
Project, KDE, MIT Media Lab, WikiMedia Foundation, and many more.
The ASF was amongst the initial 39 organizations selected to participate
in the very first GSoC in 2005, and has participated every year since.
At the ASF, the GSoC program is overseen by the Apache Community
Development project, which comprises volunteers who help guide newcomers
to The Apache Software Foundation, provide insight and advice on The
Apache Way of meritocratic development, including how to contribute to
Apache projects and to the Open Source community at-large.
"Over the summer, Apache Committers will mentor students that are
sponsored by Google and will be working on many of our projects," said
Ulrich StÃ€rk, Vice President of Community Development at the ASF. "The
program helps us to not only get some great code written, but also to
introduce students into Open Source development and hopefully recruit
some new long-term Committers."
Students are encouraged to discuss ideas with mentoring organizations
and finalize proposals for projects of interest by the 27 March
deadline. ASF mentors have proposed 129 ideas for Apache projects in Big
Data, Cloud, Enterprise Integration, Enterprise Search, Project
Management, Semantic Web & Linked Data, along with other categories.
Students may choose from the Apache "Ideas Page" at
http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas or suggest their own project for
approval. Coding will begin 25 May and end 21 August.
"GSoC gives students the chance to work on industry-leading Open Source
projects, collaborate with diverse communities, and gain real world
experience related to their academic pursuits," added StÃ€rk. "We are
proud to have mentored so many talented students over the years, and
furthered our mission of providing software products for the public
good. It's a rewarding experience both for the students and the Apache
community at-large."
Since the program's inception, GSoC has brought together over 8,500
successful student participants from over countries and over 8,000
mentors from 109 countries worldwide to produce over 55 million lines of
code.
"Being accepted once again as a Google Summer of Code mentoring
organization reinforces The Apache Software Foundation's leadership in
community-driven development," said ASF Vice Chairman Greg Stein, who,
in 2005 co-created the GSoC program while working at Google. "Hundreds
of students have been mentored in 'The Apache Way' --many have continued
on to become long-term code committers on a variety of Apache projects,
with some active program participants elected as ASF Members."
Information on the ASF's participation in Google Summer of Code is
available at http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html
About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than 350
leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server --the world's
most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process
known as "The Apache Way," more than 500 individual Members and 4,500
Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available
thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache
License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists,
mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user
conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(c)(3) charitable
organization, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors
including Budget Direct, Cerner, Citrix, Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook,
Google, Hortonworks, HP, IBM, InMotion Hosting, iSigma, Matt Mullenweg,
Microsoft, Pivotal, Produban, WANdisco, and Yahoo. For more information,
visit http://www.apache.org/ or follow https://twitter.com/TheASF
Â© The Apache Software Foundation. "Apache", "Apache HTTP Server", and
"ApacheCon", are trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation. All other
brands and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
# # #
________________________________
Sent: Sunday, 15 March 2015, 17:48
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer
of Code 2015
Hi Sally,
I think they are great as they are. Thanks a lot!
Cheers,
Uli
Thanks, Uli!

Post by Sally Khudairi
I'll incorporate your suggestions and forward the revised draft
shortly.
How do you feel about your proposed quotes?
Chat soon,
Sally
[From the mobile; please excuse top-posting, spelling/spacing errors,
and brevity]
----- Reply message -----
Subject: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of
Code 2015
Date: Sun, Mar 15, 2015 17:14
Thank you Sally, my two comments are inline. Cheers, Uli On 2015-03-15
Hi everyone --as promised, below is the draft announcement.
Please review and forward any additions/corrections no later than 5PM
ET tomorrow (Monday) in
order for us to announce on Tuesday. Should we be able to finalize
before then (by 9PM ET TODAY),
we can go live Monday morning if you'd like. Also, if someone can
please update the ASF
boilerplate at
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/apache to the
one at the
bottom of the draft announcement (below), that would be great. Will do.
Thanks so much, Sally
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DRAFT :: NOT FOR DISSEMINATION
The Apache Software Foundation Accepted as a Google Summer of Code 2015
Mentoring Organization
Hundreds of students mentored in "The Apache Way" of community-driven
development since the
program's inception in 2005.
Forest Hill, MD â17 March 2015â The Apache Software Foundation (ASF),
the all-volunteer
developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source
projects and initiatives,
announced today that it has been accepted as a Google Summer of Code
(GSoC) mentoring
organization for the 11th consecutive year.
The Google Summer of Code program offers student developers stipends to
write code for various
Open Source projects over a three month period. This year, students
will be paired with mentors
from 137 Open Source, free software, and technology-related groups that
include CERN, GNU
Project, KDE, MIT Media Lab, WikiMedia Foundation, and many more.
The ASF was amongst the initial 39 organizations selected to
participate in the very first GSoC
in 2005, and has participated every year since. At the ASF, the GSoC
program is overseen by the
Apache Community Development project, which comprises volunteers who
help guide newcomers to The
Apache Software Foundation, provide insight and advice on The Apache
Way of meritocratic
development, including how to contribute to Apache projects and to the
Open Source community
at-large.
"Over the summer, Apache Committers will mentor students that are
sponsored by Google and will be
working on many of our projects," said Ulrich StÃ€rk, Vice President of
Community Development at
the ASF. "The program helps us to not only get some great code written,
but also to introduce
students into Open Source development and hopefully recruit some new
long-term Committers."
Now through 27 March, students are encouraged to discuss ideas with
mentoring organizations and
begin drafting proposals for those projects of interest. Coding will
begin 25 May and end 21 I'd make it more clear that March 27 is the
student application *deadline*. To me "begin drafting"

sounds like they could start only then (but then I'm not a native
speaker so it could totally be OK
to write it like that). > August. Thus far, 33 ideas have been proposed
for Apache projects in Big Data, Cloud, Enterprise

Post by Sally Khudairi
Integration, Enterprise Search, Project Management, Semantic Web &
Linked Data, along with other
categories. The complete Apache "Ideas Page" is at
http://s.apache.org/cDg That sounds a bit as if students have already
submitted ideas for projects, which is not the case.

We (our mentors) have created a list of project ideas (the official URL
is http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas) from which students may choose (or
better yet, come up with
something on their own). Currently that list has 129 entries. >

Post by Sally Khudairi
"GSoC gives students the chance to work on industry-leading Open Source
projects, collaborate
with diverse communities, and gain real world experience related to
their academic pursuits,"
added StÃ€rk. "We are proud to have mentored so many talented students
over the years, and
furthered our mission of providing software products for the public
good. It's a rewarding
experience both for the students and the Apache community at-large."
Since the program's inception, GSoC has brought together over 8,500
successful student
participants from over countries and over 8,000 mentors from 109
countries worldwide to produce
over 55 million lines of code.
"Being accepted once again as a Google Summer of Code mentoring
organization reinforces The
Apache Software Foundation's leadership in community-driven
development," said ASF Vice Chairman
Greg Stein, who, in 2005 co-created the GSoC program while working at
Google. "Hundreds of
students have been mentored in 'The Apache Way' --many have continued
on to become long-term code
committers on a variety of Apache projects, with some active program
participants elected as ASF
Members."
Information on the ASF's participation in Google Summer of Code is
available at
http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html >
About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the
all-volunteer Foundation
oversees more than 350 leading Open Source projects, including Apache
HTTP Server --the world's
most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic
process known as "The Apache
Way," more than 500 individual Members and 4,500 Committers
successfully collaborate to develop
freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of
users worldwide: thousands of
software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the
community actively
participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and
ApacheCon, the Foundation's
official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US
501(c)(3) charitable organization,
funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including Budget
Direct, Cerner, Citrix,
Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Hortonworks, HP, IBM, InMotion
Hosting, iSigma, Matt
Mullenweg, Microsoft, Pivotal, Produban, WANdisco, and Yahoo. For more
information, visit
http://www.apache.org/ or follow https://twitter.com/TheASF >
Â© The Apache Software Foundation. "Apache", "Apache HTTP Server", and
"ApacheCon", are trademarks
of The Apache Software Foundation. All other brands and trademarks are
the property of their
respective owners.
# # #
[MEDIA CONTACT:SALLY] ________________________________
Cc: Ulrich StÃ€rk
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a
mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015
Thanks, Greg!
That works --better to be a bit wordy and clear vs. brief and vague <g>
We can always write "QUOTE," said Greg Stein, ASF Vice Chairman (and
co-creator of the GSoC
program, while working at Google in 2005).
Now for the quote itself... I'll put that in the draft that I'll be
sending over later.
Cheers & chat soon, Sally
To: Sally Khudairi
14 March 2015, 18:36
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer
of Code 2015
Sure, that sounds great! âŠ are you looking for something like
"co-creator of the GSoC program,
while working at Google in 2005" ?? That's a bit of a mouthful, but is
that the direction you're
thinking?
And please go ahead an draft up a quote. I'm not quite sure the angle
you're looking at, so best
if you go first :-)
Thx, -g
Greg,

Post by Sally Khudairi
I'd like to put a placeholder for a quote for you in the announcement
as well (the lead quote
will be coming from Uli).
How would you like to have your attribution described in relation to
GSoC? "ASF Vice Chairman
Of course, I'll be happy to get a quote directly from you (vs. having
to de-Sally-fy my
proposed blurb) :-)
If you don't want to be quoted, that's OK; I can use Ross as backup.
Thanks so much,
Sally
To: Sally Khudairi
March 2015, 17:22
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google
Summer of Code 2015
The very first year was 2005. Thus, 2015 would be the 11th GSoC.
As one of the two people to launch/create GSoC, you can call me
authoritative on the dates :-P
Whaaaaat?

Post by Sally Khudairi
Really? I had it in the "Did You Know?" section last week as 10th
also.
AND, more importantly, if my calculations are off, then in
https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/date/20141119 >>>
the 2013 entry as "eighth consecutive year" is wrong too.
Who has the correct count? It really is 11? Not that I don't trust
you, I now am feeling
quite lost.
Cheers, Sally
________________________________ From: Ulrich StÃ€rk
13 March 2015, 17:09
Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google
Summer of Code 2015
Hey Sally,
I just read the announcement and it says "The ASF has been accepted
as a Google Summer of
Code mentoring organization for the 10th consecutive year".
If I'm not mistaken it's the 11th year ;)
Cheers,
Uli

Thanks, Uli. I did post about it in our weekly news round-up. Happy
to work with you on a
press release. Who is the ASF lead on GSoC. You? Who from ComDev
will be at ApacheCon? Are
Ulrich StÃ€rk
Khudairi
12 March 2015, 13:31 Subject: Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring
organization for Google
Summer of Code 2015
And again recycling this. I think we missed 2014 so I want to make
sure to get an
announcement out this year.
Cheers,
Uli

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
Recycling last years email on the topic. All dates and links
updated. It would be cool if
we could get this out asap. Is there anything else you need?
Uli
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Apache Software
Foundation accepted as a
mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2012 Date: Sat, 17
Mar 2012 23:21:40
Hey Sally & Co.,
this year we won't forget to provide you with some infos on our
GSoC endeavours.
Yesterday, we have been accepted as a mentoring organization for
Google Summer of Code
2015 [1],[2]. This means that over the summer, our committers will
mentor students that
are sponsored by Google and will be working on our projects. The
program helps us not
only to get some code written but also to introduce students into
open source development
and hopefully recruit some new long-term committers. More
information on the program is
available at [3]. Students are now encouraged to discuss ideas with
the respective
projects and begin drafting proposals. An extensive list of already
existing project
ideas is available at [4]. The actual application phase is from
March 16 until March 27,
coding will take place from May 25 to August 21. See [5] for the
detailed timeline.
Can you please run any press release past us
publishing?
Thanks,
Uli
[1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015 [2]
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/apache [3]
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2015/help_page

Post by Ulrich StÃ¤rk
[4] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas [5]

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2015 >>>>>

Sally Khudairi

2015-03-16 23:04:02 UTC