[tahoe-dev] No Google Summer of Code for you!

[zooko]

No Google Summer of Code for you!  But how about an all-volunteer,  
shoestring budget summer of code, instead?

Tahoe was not accepted to be one of the 150 organizations that google  
will pay a student to hack on this summer.

They give feedback to rejected organizations, explaining why they  
weren't chosen.  Our feedback was: "Ideas list needs more things like  
programming languages one needs to know, categorization by easy  
medium and hard".

So this means that the 1000 students that google is going to pay to  
hack on open source projects this summer will not be offered Tahoe as  
one of their options.  However, we have such good mentor volunteers,  
and such good ideas, that I'm really hoping to find some other way to  
rope some young hacker into learning under our tutelage this summer.

The first possibility is that the Python Software Foundation might  
let one of the students assigned to them work on a Tahoe project this  
summer.  The next step on that path is for our mentors to write to  
the Python Software Foundation GSoC organizer, Arc Riley  
<arcriley at gmail.com> introducing yourself and saying you are  
affiliated with the Tahoe project and would mentor a student this  
summer.

The next possibility is that some students will volunteer to hack on  
Tahoe this summer in return for the benefit of experience and for the  
chance to work with excellent mentors.  The next step on that path is  
for any students out there reading this to write to one or more of  
the mentors listed on http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/GSoCIdeas  
saying that you would like to work on a project this summer.

Please let me know if you're interested!

Regards,

Zooko