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

[Sanne Grinovero]

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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