Re: GSoC

[Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>]

On 2017-02-07 16:41, jose.marchesi@oracle.com wrote:
> A friend of mine suggested that the GDB project should participate in
>     the Google Summer of Code.  However, the deadline to register as a
>     mentoring organization is this Thursday, in two days!  So we need 
> to
>     act fast if we want to participate.  From what I can see, the
>     application process is relatively straightforward, but somebody 
> needs
>     to take care of it (I don't think it has to be the person who will 
> be
>     the mentor, since this may depend on the actual chosen project).  I
>     can be that somebody if nobody else wants to.
> 
> Note that if for whatever reason you don't make it, or if you want to
> avoid the overhead of organizing, GDB can still participate under the
> GNU umbrella.
> 
> We already applied as a mentoring application, and are currently
> collecting project ideas in summer-of-code@gnu.org.

Ok, good to know, thanks.  I think it's still a good idea for projects 
to apply on their own to increase visibility.

Simon