[fpc-devel] Google summer of code

[Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho]

Ah, one idea I just had is to submit Free Pascal and Lazarus as one
mentoring organization. If anyone need, I can help writing the
application.

I collected some useful info from Google FAQ:

> How does a mentoring organization apply?

The organization should choose a single administrator to submit its
application via the GSoC web app between March 5-12, 2007

> What should a mentoring organization application look like?

In addition to anything else your organization would like to submit as
an application, Google will be asking (at least) the following
questions as part of the application process:

   1. Describe your organization.
   2. Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2007?
What do you hope to gain by participating?
   3. Did your organization participate in GSoC 2005 or 2006? If so,
please summarize your involvement and the successes and failures of
your student projects.
   4. If your organization has not previously participated in GSoC,
have you applied in the past? If so, for what year(s)?
   5. Who will your organization administrator be? Please include
Google Account information.
   6. What license does your project use?
   7. What is the URL for your ideas page?
   8. What is the main development mailing list for your organization?
   9. What is the main IRC channel for your organization?
  10. Does your organization have an application template you would
like to see students use? If so, please provide it now.
  11. Who will be your backup organization administrator? Please
include Google Account information.
  12. Who will your mentors be? Please include Google Account Information.
  13. What criteria did you use to select these individuals as
mentors? Please be as specific as possible.
  14. What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students?
  15. What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors?
  16. What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with
your project's community before, during and after the program?
  17. What will you do to ensure that your accepted students stick
with the project after GSoC concludes?