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Subject: Re: Summer of Code
From: lsmith@php.net (Lukas Smith)

Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

> I think we can lump them all together under PHP.  And while having 
> suggestions is definitely good, we also need to stay open to interesting 
> proposals.

Ok, how do we get on that list?
Do we have friends inside google?

I poked some more and the stuff I first found seemed to indicate a 
foundation as a requirement:
http://code.google.com/summfaq.html#what_is_a_mentoring_organ

But poking some more I found this not to be the case:
http://code.google.com/soc/mentorfaq.html#5

I guess we need to cover the following steps:
http://code.google.com/soc/mentorfaq.html#3

Quoted here for lazy people:
3. How does the program work?

    1. Organizations who would like to participate in Summer of Code 
2006 should choose an organization administrator(s) to represent them
    2. Organization administrators submit their organization's interest 
by emailing soc2006support@google.com
    3. Google notifies of acceptance and creates the organization's 
account on the Summer of Code site
    4. Organizations sign up mentors and publish their pool of project ideas
    5. Students submit to Google proposals to work with particular 
mentoring organizations; Google routes to the mentor organization, and 
the proposals are ranked by mentors working with those organizations.
    6. Accepted students start work based on their proposals; mentors 
give guidance throughout the duration of the program
    7. Mentors provide mid-term evaluations of student progress
    8. Mentors provide a final review of student work, and each student 
provides a single overall review of her/his mentor
    9. Student uploads completed program to Google site

regards,
Lukas