Re: GSoC 2023

From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 9, 2023, 10:17 UTC
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD20=SScM3XA4mjiNs=rHJY3i_9MOcL8uxsFT-mn1-JH1A@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi everyone,

On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 10:34 AM Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> wrote:

> GSoC Org Applications open next week on Monday, January 23rd at 1800
> UTC and close on Tuesday, February 7th at 1800 UTC.

So Git has been accepted to participate in GSoC 2023.

I have recently received emails with "GSoC 2023: Be sure to add Org Admins ASAP (and Mentors too!)" as a subject. Unfortunately despite trying several times I haven't been able to do that. There have been emails saying that a bug was fixed, but it seems to me that there are several bugs left preventing us to do what we are asked to.

On Firefox I cannot even log into the website. On Chromium the "Add member" drop down list doesn't show any member that I can add despite the fact that many people are shows in https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/git/members

Today is supposed to be the deadline for each project to have at least 2 Org Admins for GSoC 2023, but it looks like I am the only one and cannot add a second one because of the bugs.

I have emailed gsoc-support@google.com to get support and will see what happens.

Let me know if you have ideas about this.

> The GSoC contributor application deadline is April 4 - 18:00 UTC, so
> (co-)mentors and org admins are already welcome to volunteer. We also
> need project ideas to refresh our idea page from last year
> (https://git.github.io/SoC-2022-Ideas/).

We still have time to add project ideas to https://git.github.io/SoC-2023-Ideas/ and it's still possible for (co-)mentors to volunteer. For example perhaps someone could co-mentor the "More Sparse Index Integrations" project along with Victoria.

A project idea that was discussed in the past was about improving the git-scm website and perhaps removing the Heroku dependency.

Best, Christian.