Re: Spreading the word (was: Re: Google Summer of Code 2007)

[Yen-Ju Chen]

On 3/15/07, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf <lars.sonchocky-helldorf@hamburg.de> wrote:
> Am 15.03.2007 um 22:43 schrieb Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf:
>
> >
> > Am 15.03.2007 um 22:07 schrieb Yen-Ju Chen:
> >
> >> On 3/15/07, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf <lars.sonchocky-
> >> helldorf@hamburg.de> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Am 15.03.2007 um 20:42 schrieb Adam Fedor:
> >>>
> >>> > Good News!  GNUstep was accepted as an organization in Google's
> >>> > Summer of Code 2007. Now the work begins. Please go to the SOC
> >>> wiki
> >>> > page:
> >>> >
> >>> > http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Summer_Of_Code_2007
> >>> >
> >>> > I need people to:
> >>> >
> >>> > 1) Go through the project list carefully and make sure the
> >>> projects
> >>> > are relevant and useful and everything we need is there
> >>> > 2) Sign up to be mentors!
> >>> > 3) Sign up to be students.
> >>>
> >>> Somebody blogging (ideally somebody who blogs on a regular base and
> >>> has a blog that supports digg) should blog about this and then we
> >>> could try to get into the limelight here http://digg.com/
> >>> programming.
> >>> We would need about 40 to 50 diggs to get to the frontpage then
> >>> (should be no problem if everybody here helps "digging").
> >>>
> >>> Btw. KDE already does this: http://digg.com/programming/
> >>> KDE_participating_in_Google_Summer_of_Code_2007
> >>
> >>  We can just digg the wiki page.
> >>  If you really want a blog, I have one here:
> >>  http://gnustep.blogspot.com/
> >
> > Great! I think a blog is better here (and you link the wikipage in
> > it) since those little digg buttons seem to make the difference (I
> > remember submitting a story on digg ( http://digg.com/programming/
> > GNUstep_does_what_Apple_can_t_Extend_Cocoa_to_Linux_Windows ) which
> > never came across to reach the critical mass because of a missing
> > digg button on Greg's blog.).
> >
> > I think your blog entry needs to be extended somewhat to make it a
> > more interesting and relevant read, I can do it, just give me some
> > time to write something (which I'll mail to you in turn).
>
> how about adding this text (with links) to your blog entry:

 O.K. I update everything here:
 http://gnustep.blogspot.com/2007/03/summer-of-code-2007.html
 And put a digg:
 http://digg.com/programming/GNUstep_participates_in_Google_Summer_of_Code_2007

 If people want to change anything, let me know.

 Yen-Ju

> ----
>
> GNUstep is proud to announce its participation in the Google Summer
> of Code  ( http://code.google.com/soc/ ) program.
>
> If you're a student and want to improve your OpenStep/Cocoa skills,
> practice some real cross platform programming or just learn what that
> wonderful Objective-C language is about you should apply ( http://
> groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-announce/web/guide-to-
> the-gsoc-web-app-for-student-applicants ). GNUstep has a lot of
> different projects to offer - from entry level improvements for the
> beginner to advanced tasks like porting Apple's WebKit over to
> GNUstep or improving GNUsteps integration into the MS Windows
> Platform. All ideas are listed here and you're free to add more here:
> http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php?title=Summer_Of_Code_2007 (the wiki
> needs a registration and application for write rights here:
> webmasters@gnustep.org, sorry for that - we get wiki-spammed a lot).
>
> We are a bunch of friendly people with an appreciation for the
> extraordinary - would we otherwise use Objective-C or build an
> OpenStep/Cocoa compliant framework? If you're looking for a special
> challenge aside heavily traveled C++ roads (that would be boring,
> well?), want to extend your horizons and are open minded you're welcome.
>
> If you're a GNUstep developer and want to introduce some novice to
> the marvelous world of GNUstep you should apply as a mentor.
>
> ----
>
> corrections and improvements are welcome
>
> regards, Lars