[hibernate-dev] Everyone: Need volunteers for mentoring GSOC

[Gunnar Morling]

Ahaha, ok. I took previous contribution as a given for active
participants on hibernate-dev and people considering to mentor ;)
Sorry I misread.

2016-03-03 12:38 GMT+01:00 Sanne Grinovero <sanne at hibernate.org>:
> I asked for mentors, not students.
>
> On Thu, 3 Mar 2016 11:05 Gunnar Morling, <gunnar at hibernate.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'll write up the proposal for the batch job for mass indexing and
>> submit it to
>> https://developer.jboss.org/wiki/JBossCommunityGoogleSummerOfCode2016Ideas.
>>
>> > It would need to be someone who's regularly contributing already...
>>
>> Personally I don't think that's needed and also it's not in the spirit of
>> GSoC.
>>
>> The program is meant to bring students *into* OSS development. Of
>> course having experience in that area doesn't harm, but it's no
>> requirement. Much more important is the general attitude (willingness
>> to learn etc.) as well as general programming knowledge.
>>
>> Student's applications start on March 14th, so whatever we feel like
>> going for, should be in that proposal list by then.
>>
>> --Gunnar
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 2016-03-01 18:27 GMT+01:00 Sanne Grinovero <sanne at hibernate.org>:
>> > Hi all,
>> > earlier today in our IRC meeting [1] we discussed ideas for Google
>> > Summer of Code;
>> > mostly related Hibernate Search but not only:
>> >
>> > Quoting the previous summary by Gunnar:
>> >   1 - Java Batch API job for HSEARCH mass indexing
>> >   2 - Solr backend
>> >   3 - HSEARCH support for JHipster
>> >   4 - HSEARCH support for Spring Data
>> >   5 - Async API for ORM/OGM/HSEARCH
>> > [It's not a closed list, you can also propose additional ideas.]
>> >
>> > is anyone on this mailing list interested enough on these subjects to
>> > volunteer mentoring?
>> >
>> > I mentored two students last year and we had nice results, but I won't
>> > be able to mentor this summer.
>> >
>> > It would need to be someone who's regularly contributing already, and
>> > ideally someone familiar with the technology we're integrating with:
>> > most of the above proposals are about integrating with some other
>> > standard or framework.
>> >
>> > For example I wouldn't mentor on JHipster as all I know about it is
>> > what I've seen in a couple of presentations... but if the student is
>> > not too junior he can also be tasked with reaching out to "the other"
>> > community to get guidance.
>> >
>> > But for that I'd want us to be able to make some introductions at
>> > least, to have some kind of "co-mentor" volunteered by the other
>> > community/project.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Sanne
>> >
>> >
>> > 1 -
>> > http://transcripts.jboss.org/meeting/irc.freenode.org/hibernate-dev/2016/hibernate-dev.2016-03-01-14.04.html
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