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Re: Application submissions under the GNU umbrella
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Christopher Allan Webber |
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Re: Application submissions under the GNU umbrella |
Date: |
Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:16:14 -0500 |
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Alright, great, thanks!
Jose E. Marchesi writes:
> So I'm happy that MediaGoblin is in under the GNU umbrella for GSoC!
> However, it's not super clear to me how it works out for a few things
> re: application submissions:
>
> - What should MediaGoblin mentors do? Basically, get an account on
> Melange if they don't already and sign up as GNU mentors? Is there
> any way I should be verifying who is and isn't a mentor?
>
> Just send us a list of people which are authorised to mentor mediagoblin
> projects. Otherwise when accepting mentors we do a basic
> authentication, like searching for the name of the requestor in the
> development mailing list of the project.
>
> - How is voting on proposals for MediaGoblin going to work? I assume
> MediaGoblin mentors are the only ones who really need to vote on
> MediaGoblin proposals; I've mentored GSoC before but never done this
> under an umbrella org.
>
> It is up to you (mediagoblin maintainer and developers) to decide how to
> rank your student applications. In the IRC meeting next week
> (Wednesday) we will decide the amount of slots we will be asking for GNU
> overall, and at that point you must have a clear idea about how many
> essential and desired applications you have. At some point Google will
> communicate us how many slots do we have. Then we will distribute the
> slots among the projects.