Il giorno sab, 24/02/2007 alle 01.21 +0100, Yann Monclair ha scritto:

Hi Giovanni,

IIRC last year we tried to apply to Google's Summer of Code. I think Stephane Ducasse was involved too. We weren't accepted either as ESUG or SqF, not being "mainstream". I think that was one of the reasons to push forward SummerTalk.

I think Google SoC is a great initiative, but unfortunately, I don't think Google will accept Smalltalk projects this year again... I would love to be proven wrong!

What I would rather propose, is to build up a great SummerTalk, making great stuff with motivated students and mentors :) I was part of the first batch of SummerTalkers in 2006, and I really enjoyed the experience. My mentor was one of my teachers in University, Bernard Pottier, who is a long time Smalltalker.

If we build up to a good SummerTalk event each year, then we will stand more chances to enter google SoC, or maybe we will not even want to get in :)

I would rather encourage people to offer projects and mentorship (and sponsoring if you want to), to ESUG's SummerTalk :)

Hi Yann,

I think it's worth a try.

In case Squeak isn't accepted, we can reuse the SoC Project Ideas for SummerTalk. In case Squeak is accepted, SummerTalk can supplement SoC by funding additional projects.

Giovanni