svn commit: r44595 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Thu Apr 17 17:31:46 UTC 2014

Author: pgj
Date: Thu Apr 17 17:31:45 2014
New Revision: 44595
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/44595

Log:
  - Add 2014Q1 status report for GSoC
  
  Submitted by:	gavin

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml	Thu Apr 17 17:22:59 2014	(r44594)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml	Thu Apr 17 17:31:45 2014	(r44595)
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
     <!-- XXX: Keep the number of entries updated -->
 
     <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work!  This
-      report contains 40 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
+      report contains 41 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
 
     <p>The deadline for submissions covering between April and
       June 2014 is July 7th, 2014.</p>
@@ -2652,4 +2652,70 @@ device vt_efifb</pre>
       <task>Support for other architectures (ARM, MIPS, PPC).</task>
     </help>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='misc'>
+    <title>&os; Participating in Summer of Code 2014</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Gavin</given>
+	  <common>Atkinson</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>gavin at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Glen</given>
+	  <common>Barber</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>gjb at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Wojciech</given>
+	  <common>Koszek</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>wkoszek at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links>
+      <url href="http://gsoc.FreeBSD.org" />
+      <url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2014" />
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>&os; is pleased to have been accepted as a participating
+	organization in Google's Summer of Code 2014.  This will be the
+	tenth time we have participated in the program, having been
+	selected to participate every year since its introduction.</p>
+
+      <p>This year, the administrators made a special attempt to spread
+	the word about Summer of Code around Universities, including
+	making contact with around 350 mainly Polish, British, African
+	and American universities to advertise the Summer of Code
+	program, with a particular focus on &os;'s participation.  We
+	made contact with both technical departments and student
+	societies.  Posters were produced in several languages, and &os;
+	committers and users were encouraged to distribute these posters
+	around their local universities.</p>
+
+      <p>&os; received a total of 39 proposals from students, and were
+	subsequently granted 15 slots from Google.  We are now facing
+	the unpleasant challenge of trying to decide which of the 39
+	proposals to select, taking into account the quality,
+	desirability and feasibility of each proposal, as well as
+	ensuring we will be able to provide an excellent mentoring
+	experience to each selected student.  All mentors have
+	volunteered to mentor, and we pair students with mentors
+	primarily based on the prospective mentor's areas of expertise,
+	interest in the project, also taking into account the desire to
+	pair students up with mentors in similar timezones in order to
+	improve the student experience.  The final list of accepted
+	students is expected to be announced on the 21st April.</p>
+    </body>
+  </project>
 </report>
