Google Summer of Code 2009 - Organization Application

> Folks, its that time of year again.  We need to apply to be a
> mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2009.
> 
> Deadline is this Friday around noon PST.
> 
> I have updated the application document on the wiki with the
> current questions and more up-to-date answers:
> 
>   http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/SoC2009Application
> 
> Please make any comments in the next day or so, so that we can
> address them and have time to upload the completed application
> before their cut-off deadline.

> "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
> 
> >   http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/SoC2009Application
> 
> About SoC2009Application: why it refers to SoC2008Template?

> >  * San Francisco in October, just after the Google Summer of Code
> > Mentor
>
> Considering that (assuming git is accepted as mentoring organization)
> we can ask Google for 2 airplane tickets, I'm voting for this option
> ;).

> I thought that it was only one international airplane ticket last year,
> except perhaps when there are no US based mentor. And we are not sure that
> Google or another company in the Bay Area will be able to host us this
> year. So the cost of hosting the GitTogether might be higher than the cost
> of a few airplane tickets.

> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 08:05, Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> wrote:
> > I thought that it was only one international airplane ticket last year,
> > except perhaps when there are no US based mentor. And we are not sure that
> > Google or another company in the Bay Area will be able to host us this
> > year. So the cost of hosting the GitTogether might be higher than the cost
> > of a few airplane tickets.
> 
> Last year Google provided two international airplane tickets and was
> able to host us, we can at least ask them to host us again this year
> (if that is what we decide on).

> Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 08:05, Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> wrote:
> > > I thought that it was only one international airplane ticket last 
> > > year, except perhaps when there are no US based mentor. And we are 
> > > not sure that Google or another company in the Bay Area will be able 
> > > to host us this year. So the cost of hosting the GitTogether might 
> > > be higher than the cost of a few airplane tickets.
> > 
> > Last year Google provided two international airplane tickets and was 
> > able to host us, we can at least ask them to host us again this year 
> > (if that is what we decide on).
> 
> Did Google do two international tickets last year for Git?

> On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> > 
> > Did Google do two international tickets last year for Git?
> 
> I do not think so.  Mugwump got the international airplane ticket, AFAIR, 
> and warthog the local "ticket".

>>> Last year Google provided two international airplane tickets and was 
>>> able to host us, we can at least ask them to host us again this year 
>>> (if that is what we decide on).
>>>       
>> Did Google do two international tickets last year for Git?
>>     
>
> I do not think so.  Mugwump got the international airplane ticket, AFAIR, 
> and warthog the local "ticket".
>   

> Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 08:05, Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> wrote:
>> > I thought that it was only one international airplane ticket last year,
>> > except perhaps when there are no US based mentor. And we are not sure that
>> > Google or another company in the Bay Area will be able to host us this
>> > year. So the cost of hosting the GitTogether might be higher than the cost
>> > of a few airplane tickets.
>>
>> Last year Google provided two international airplane tickets and was
>> able to host us, we can at least ask them to host us again this year
>> (if that is what we decide on).
>
> Did Google do two international tickets last year for Git?  Hmm,
> don't go spreading that word around.  Very few groups got that
> amount of travel money for the mentor summit.  Maybe none others.
>
> IMHO, _if_ Git is accepted this year, and _if_ the mentor summit is
> held this fall as it has been in the past, Google will most likely
> cover only one ticket, especially if we actually also supported a
> GitTogether immediately after.
>
>> Shawn, how likely is it that Google will provide hosting for another
>> GitTogether this year?
>
> I will ask.
>
> Last year it was difficult on LH.  Despite the fact that most of
> the attendees probably never even met her, she put a lot of work
> into the GitTogether behind the scenes.  Without her efforts,
> the GitTogether simply would not have happened here.
>
> It was also *immediately* after the biggest event of the year
> that she and her team run (GSoC mentor summit), and really close
> to two other very big events that they run.  They were working
> pretty much 7 days a week for over 3 months straight, and were
> really looking forward to some time off when I threw GitTogether
> '08 into their calendar.
>
> I'm not sure I can ask LH to put her and her team through that again.
> I want to continue living.  :-)
>
> There is also the most popular issue of budgets.  GitTogether '08
> wasn't free for us.  Its cheaper than anything we would get from a
> conference venue/hotel outside the Googleplex, but it still was a
> non-trivial sum.  We simply may not have the funds for it this year.

>
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> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> > There is also the most popular issue of budgets. ??GitTogether '08
> > wasn't free for us. ??Its cheaper than anything we would get from a
> > conference venue/hotel outside the Googleplex, but it still was a
> > non-trivial sum. ??We simply may not have the funds for it this year.
> 
> Let me know if I can help out at all.  If Google doesn't want to host
> it, but everyone still wants to string together the GSOC summit and
> this, I'm sure GitHub can find a nice venue for us and get some food
> and whatnot.  Or, if we can simply 'sponsor' it or something - give
> the Goog money to host it for us, however that might work.  We want to
> help this happen again this year, so keep me in the loop and we can
> make sure it gets handled somehow.