{"thread":{"id":"12737","subject":"Google Summer of Code 2008 is on!","startedAt":"2008-03-18T04:21:51Z","lastAt":"2008-03-18T04:21:51Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Shawn O. Pearce"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"72341","messageId":"20080318042151.GM8410@spearce.org","threadId":"12737","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Google Summer of Code 2008 is on!","fromName":"Shawn O. Pearce","fromEmail":"spearce@spearce.org","sentAt":"2008-03-18T04:21:51Z","receivedAt":"2008-03-18T04:21:51Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"spearce@spearce.org","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/34844?v=4"},"body":"Git has been accepted to Google Summer of Code 2008, our second\nyear particpating in this exciting program.\n\n  http://code.google.com/soc/2008/git/about.html\n\nThere is a nice categorized list of the other 175 accepted\norganizations listed here:\n\n  http://genmapp.org/gsoc/mentors_by_category.htm\n\n\nStudents interested in applying to Git for this year's summer of\ncode should look at the program FAQ, and especially the timeline:\n\n  http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2008/faqs.html\n  http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2008/faqs.html#0.1_timeline\n\nStudent applications are March 24th through March 31st.  But you\ncan start getting active now.\n\n\nInterested students should take a look at our ideas page and\napplication template:\n\n  http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/SoC2008Ideas\n  http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/SoC2008Template\n\nStudents can directly contact a potential mentor by email or #git\non IRC, or to start discussing a project of interest on the mailing\nlist itself.  All Git related projects are welcome, so if you have\nan interesting idea not listed on our ideas page, speak up!\n\n\nAnyone who has been here a while and is interested in being a\nmentor, please contact me off-list and I'll give you the details.\nWe want mentors who are passionate about the student project they\nare paired up with, and who know that particular part of Git well\nenough to help a student who is new to Git (and open source) do\nsomething really exciting this summer.\n\n-- \nShawn.\n"}]}