IO.js as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code

[mcollina]

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2015/help_page#2._What_should_a_mentoring_organization

The deadline for applying is the 20th of February.

[mikeal]

For the most part, you need to be a registered non-profit to do this.

I had a request come in from someone that wanted to work on the crazy math stuff we started in node-forward and I was able to get Mikola to mentor him and the jQuery Foundation to be the supporting organization.

If people have additional things they want to do as part of SoC I can try to do the same kind of match making :)

[domenic]

I wonder if Google has some way to sponsor work on other open-source projects with Google as the sponsor organization. I should ask around.

[luke-john]

So I'm not sure that's correct about needing to be a registered non-profit.

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2014/help_page#5._What_are_the_eligibility_requirements

There is some work involved in setting up infrastructure and managing a program like this.

The following is an example of what would need to be setup for applying to run a summer of code;
http://code.timvideos.us/summer-of-code/

[bnoordhuis]

I'm up for being a mentor. Doesn't look like it's all that different from what I already do most. :-)

[ghost]

I think Google can be the sponsoring organization because in the FAQ they say, "If Google is a student's sponsoring organization, then the student keeps copyright to her/his code." which implied that Google can be a sponsoring organization.

[stuartweir]

I would most definitely be interested in something like this if it was available.

[kevinmartin]

The project does not need to be a legally incorporated entity.

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[ghost]

I found the same thing as @kevinmartin when I was looking for information.

[mcollina]

If anybody would make the submission I would be really happy. As an example
of projects, we could propose a pure-node implementation of gyp.
Il giorno ven 20 feb 2015 alle 18:20 Benjamin [email protected] ha
scritto:

I found the same thing as @kevinmartin https://github.com/KevinMartin
when I was looking for information.

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[mikeal]

Isn't pyg a potential replacement for gyp? https://github.com/indutny/pyg @indutny ?

[piscisaureus]

Isn't pyg a potential replacement for gyp? https://github.com/indutny/pyg @indutny ?

Yes but written in C, hence for node's purpose we're facing a bootstrapping problem.

[indutny]

@piscisaureus C compiler is not a bootstraping problem :)

[PhilippGrulich]

Hey guys i'm reale interested in joining The gsoc and contributing to this project. Does somebody has made a Submission or is an Mentor for this year and has a good Project idea?

[mscdex]

I'm guessing this can be closed since the deadline has now passed for GSoC 2015?

[ghost]

@mscdex Yeah