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I’m guessing most of you will be aware of the Google Summer of Code project. Plone has participated for the last two years and will be applying to participate again this year. I’ve taken up the job of bothering people until they help out, so consider yourself bothered!

Mentoring

Are you interested in mentoring a student? If you’re chosen as a mentor you’ll be assigned a student who has submitted a proposal to participate in SoC. It’ll be your job to get this student involved and up to speed as a Plone developer. You should expect to commit between 30 and 60 minutes a day, with up to an additional two hours a week for testing and commenting on the student’s code.

You’re acting as the face of the Plone Foundation, supporting somebody who may be about to start university, or may be a post-doctoral student. They’ll be passionate, willing to learn but not necessarily
experienced with Plone.

Above all, you’ll be ensuring the student stays motivated and on trac, giving praise and helping with problems and helping him integrate with the community by shouting successes to the whole planet (see what I did there? )

Join our OpenPlans project to get more information on volunteering.

Ideas

Students submit their own ideas for projects, but we need to provide a list of possibilities to get their brains churning. Do you have an itch with Plone that you want scratched? Submit it as a possible idea and you may pique a student’s interest. There’s no need for you to mentor a project you suggest if you don’t want to or feel you’re not able, but we really appreciate the ideas.

Students

We’re glad to hear you’re interested in working with Plone! Please stop by #plone-soc on freenode and join our open plans, we’d love to hear your feedback on our ideas so far, but more importantly, we want to meet you!