SoC April 2007

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[Fwd: Some Thoughts on Community Bonding]
by Giovanni Corriga 27 Apr '07

27 Apr '07

Hi all, Leslie Hawthorn from Google explains what we're supposed to do before the Summer of Code actually begins. Giovanni

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Students - Tax forms
by Giovanni Corriga 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

Hi all, you students should have received a tax form from Google that you will have to fill in. It certifies that the work you're going to do for Google during the summer will take place inside the US (if you're a US resident) or outside the US (if you're not a US resident). The Summer of Code FAQ has a section on this: http://code.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=10731 Giovanni

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Welcome to Squeak's Summer of Code!
by Giovanni Corriga 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

Hello, and welcome to Squeak's Summer of Code! I apologize for waiting so much before sending this message, but now here we are. As you know, your proposals have been selected for Squeak's Summer of Code. Fine, but now what? Here's a list of things you need to know and/or do for your SoC project (you probably already know most of them). Mentors Get in contact with your mentor, and discuss and decide how you should interact with him during the summer: email, IM, IRC etc. Also, since we've plenty of available mentors, we'll be assigning each student a second mentor to help him. We're currently in the process of assigning them; as soon as we complete the assignment, we'll tell you who shall be your second mentor. This second mentor will also act as backup in case the first one can't continue mentoring you. Mailing lists Subscribe to the main Squeak mailing lists. These include the Beginners and Squeak-dev mailing lists, and are the places where most of the Squeak community lives. You should also subscribe to the SoC mailing list and to the other mailing lists that your mentor may suggest. Almost all mailing lists are hosted on http://lists.squeakfoundation.org . Contact data We need to be able to get in touch with you if the need arises. Please send a message to me ( giovanni(a)corriga.net ) with your contact info: other email addresses that you check often, IRC and IM contacts, even a phone number. Squeaksource Get yourself an account on Squeaksource, if you don't have one. Squeaksource ( http://www.squeaksource.com ) is a centralized monticello server, with some extra features like web/wiki pages, integration with SqueakMap etc. Many of the packages you'll work on have their home on Squeaksource. The tools and the library If this is the first time you work with a Smalltalk system, then you have to get acquainted with the development tools: code browser, method finder, monticello browser, debugger, etc. etc. Also, start to learn the structure of the class library. Ask you mentors for help on this, and try to develop some small applications to get your feet wet in Smalltalk. Weekly IRC meetings and reports During the summer months, we're going to hold a short IRC meeting at the beginning of each week. During this meeting we'll quickly go over what you've done in the past week, what you're planning to do in the current week, what problems you did encounter. Summer of Squeak Blog I've created a blog called Summer of Squeak ( http://blog.summer.squeak.org ) that will be used to track your SoC projects. I invite you to join the blog and post regularly about your work. If you want to join, please contact me and I'll add you to the blog. ESUG Conference ESUG (the European Smalltalk User Group) organizes a yearly conference of Smalltalk pratictioners. This year's conference will be held in Lugano from August 25th to August 31th. Since the conference will be held in the last week of the Summer of Code, it would be cool if the students could meet in person. You can apply for a student volunteer job at the conference: if you're accepted ESUG will pay your admittance to the conference and your accomodations for the days of the conference, in exchange for some light work during the conference. We're also planning some other activities that could be held immediately before or after the conference, so you should seriously consider being a student volunteer. If you have any questions or comments, don't hesitate to contact your mentor or to send a message to this mailing list. Giovanni

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Mentors
by Giovanni Corriga 23 Apr '07

23 Apr '07

Hi all, since only five slots were allocated to us by Google, we have more mentors than needed. Five of the mentors have been automatically assigned when we selected the projects; this leaves nine more mentors free. I propose that we assign a second, backup mentor to each student, and have the remaining four mentors be ready in case they're needed. I invite you to reply to this message if you're interested to be the second mentor for one the accepted students. Giovanni

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Google's notes on Organization Selections and Student Allocations Criteria
by Giovanni Corriga 23 Apr '07

23 Apr '07

Hi, The SoC organizers from Google have published some notes on their organization selection and student allocations criteria. Here they are: http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-announce/web/notes-on-… http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-announce/web/notes-on-… Giovanni

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Thanks for your partecipation!
by Giovanni Corriga 16 Apr '07

16 Apr '07

Hi! First of all, I apologize for the lateness of this message. As the admin of Squeak's Summer of Code group, I'd like to thank you for having looked at Squeak for a SoC project. We're sorry that we couldn't accept your application. The reasons why we couldn't accept all the applications we've received are many: if you want to know why your application(s) weren't accepted, feel free to send us a message to soc(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org . We're also available for advices and remarks in order to help you submit a better application for next year's Summer of Code. If you're still interested in working on a Squeak project during the summer, you may want to consider applying to the SummerTalk program. This is a program, similar to the Google Summer of Code, sponsored by ESUG, the European Smalltalk User Group. You may find more information on this at http://www.esug.org/promotionactions/summertalk2007/ . Don't worry about the April 10th deadline - it has been postponed. And don't forget that we would be happy anyway to have you in our community, even out of the SoC or SummerTalk programs. You can reach us via the website http://www.squeak.org , via the various Squeak mailing lists and via the #squeak IRC channel on freenode.org . Again, we Squeakers would like to thank you for your partecipation! Ciao, Giovanni

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Summer of Squeak blog
by Giovanni Corriga 15 Apr '07

15 Apr '07

Hi all, I've created a new blog named Summer of Squeak. This blog's purpose is to let the community track the progress of Squeak's Summer of Code and SummerTalk projects. I hope that the students and mentors will be join me in publishing articles for this blog. The blog may be found at http://blog.summer.squeak.org . Many thanks to Ken Causey who helped set up the squeak.org URL. Ciao, Giovanni

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Introducing... the Squeak Summer of Code 2007 projects
by Giovanni Corriga 14 Apr '07

14 Apr '07

Hi all, it is a great pleasure for me, as the admin of the Squeak Summer of Code effort, to introduce to you the five projects that have been selected for this year's Summer of Code. They are: "Developing a package model" by Damien Cassou, mentored by Stephane Ducasse http://code.google.com/soc/squeak/appinfo.html?csaid=9B60DEDD661792 "Improving the Compiler frameworks" by Mathieu Suen, mentored by Marcus Denker http://code.google.com/soc/squeak/appinfo.html?csaid=B6CC5BC1D4980409 "A Squeak HTML/CSS Viewer" by Jerome Chauveau, mentored by Todd Blanchard http://code.google.com/soc/squeak/appinfo.html?csaid=A3971F7D4BDF294 "Collaborative Development" by Benjamin Vanderheyden Schroeder, mentored by Ralph Johnson http://code.google.com/soc/squeak/appinfo.html?csaid=7F2C204FBF7A2D4F "One Wiki to Rule Them All" by Oleg Korsak, mentored by Keith Patrick Hodges http://code.google.com/soc/squeak/appinfo.html?csaid=3780B118670665F3 This five projects have been selected among the 35 proposals submitted by 25 students. This hasn't been an easy task for the mentors, because the good proposals were many and the competition fierce. I'd like to thank all the students who applied, and invite all of them to propose us a project for the 2008 edition of the Summer of Code. But in the end Squeak could get more than just this five projects: I have been contacted by a couple of students who are still interested in working on their proposed projects, either under the SummerTalk banner, or just in their spare time. Again, I'd like to thank all the students and the mentors involved in this effort for all the work they've done. Thanks, guys! Ciao, Giovanni

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Thanks for Soc
by Mathieu Suen 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

Hi, I happy to annonce you that I have been accepted for Google Summer of Code to improve the NewCompiler. I would like to thanks every one that have vote for my application. I would also thanks Giovanni Corriga for is strong implication. Also thanks to Marcus Denker to have propose this project and to mentoring it. Marcus have already give me a todo list and I am exited to start it. :) If you want to follow my project or if you have any question about NewCompiler, AST, Closure, SmaCC it's always you can subscrib to the NewCompiler mailing list at: http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/newcompiler Mth

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Mentors meeting on IRC: Tuesday, April 10th, 17:00 UTC
by Giovanni Corriga 11 Apr '07

11 Apr '07

Hi all, I propose that all the mentors meet on IRC on Tuesday in order to finalize the accepted applications list. The meeting will be hold on the irc.freenode.org server in the #squeak-soc channel. The meeting will start next Tuesday, April 10th, at 17:00 UTC, that is at: 19:00 CET 18:00 GMT (6:00 pm) 13:00 EST (1:00 pm) 12:00 CST (12:00 pm) 11:00 MST (11:00 am) 10:00 PST (10:00 am) Ciao, Giovanni

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