Getting Selected for Google Summer of Code '08
Posted by hatim
I have been selected for Google Summer of code for the second time. My writing skills and my socilazing on irc has paid off well and now it time to concentrate on my software devlopment skills. Like last year I witnessed the irc party on #gsoc @ freenode. There were almost 900 people in attendence and Leslie was trying to calm every one down by frantically typing, 'calm down' , 'chill', 'patience' every other second :). I have so far gotten emails from both Google and OpenNMS. here is an excrept from Google's email
Dear Applicant,
Congratulations! This email is being sent to inform you that your
application was accepted to take part in the Summer of Code. Please
check your student home page in the SoC web application at
http://code.google.com/soc/student_home.html to determine which of
your applications was accepted.
Over the next few days, you will be added to a special members only
......If you cannot take part for some reason, please email us at
gsoc@google.com as soon as possible so that we can allocate your slot
to another student.
Other questions and concerns should be send to gsoc@google.com
Thanks for taking part; we're very excited to see what the Summer will bring!
Congratulations once again,
The Google Summer of Code Progam Administration Team
and here from RangerRick (Ben Reed from OpenNMS)
== Hello ==
So I just wanted to send out a quick note to welcome you to the OpenNMS
community, and to thank you for getting involved in Summer of Code!
This is our first time as a mentoring organization, so we'll be learning
alongside you how to do things. If you have any questions, please don't
hesitate to contact.........the next month, it's "Community Bonding" time. Time for you to get
to know us, for us to get to know you, and for everyone to get familiar
with interacting, checking out/building/working with the OpenNMS
codebase, and all that fun stuff. Get on the mailing lists, join us in
IRC, introduce yourselves, and most importantly, have fun!
- --
Benjamin Reed
The OpenNMS Group
http://www.opennms.org/
I am already a part of the Google Student mailing list and have updated my profile for this year's project. I aslo see that this year there is some one else working on Internet2 Java OWAMP project and hopefully they will succeed this time. As for me I will be start the tasking of my project as of today (ie identifying the small tasks for the migration).
Wish me luck :)
