From dionys ΞΑ gmail.com Sat Jan 17 09:03:36 2009 From: dionys ΞΑ gmail.com (Denis Ibaev) Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:03:36 +0300 Subject: [Kazan.pm] Fwd: [pm_groups] Summer of Code 2009 - engaging with students In-Reply-To: <200901082324.22666.scratchcomputing@gmail.com> References: <200901082324.22666.scratchcomputing@gmail.com> Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Eric Wilhelm Date: 2009/1/9 Subject: [pm_groups] Summer of Code 2009 - engaging with students To: pm_groups ΞΑ pm.org λΟΠΙΡ: tpf-steering ΞΑ perl.org, directors ΞΑ lists.parrot.org Hi everybody, It's very cold here. Time to start thinking about summer! The student proposals for Google's Summer of Code will be due in a couple short months and Google has just given word that the program will indeed be on again this year. For 2008, we had a great turnout of willing and able mentors, but only about 16 student applications. This implies that we need to try to reach more students and encourage them to apply for summer of code this year. We'll probably start to see more information from Google about SOC 2009 within a month or so. For now: http://tinyurl.com/9r55v3 Last year taught us that the returning organizations which started early were more successful in recruiting students. While we can't say for sure that Perl/Parrot will be accepted as mentor organizations, we'll get a very late start if we wait. If it (knock on wood) doesn't happen, the Perl community will still benefit from efforts to connect with more students. The following are just a few ideas of what your local Perl Mongers group could do to help. Please forward this to your mailing list or discuss it at your next meeting. Find out if your local university has Perl in the curriculum. If so, get in touch with the professors and let them know about your local Perl Mongers group. Ask if they would be interested in you speaking to their class or giving a presentation on-campus. If the computer science department doesn't seem interested in Perl, you might find users (or potential users) in other departments. Think about all of the niche data-crunching for which Perl gets used. Find grad students who might be doing that - whatever their major might be. Are any members of your group recently graduated? If so, the contacts they still have might be a great place to start, especially in non-cs disciplines. Even in very specialized applications, the chances are that the Perl community contains a mentor with a related background. Finally, I would be interested in hearing from any Perl Mongers groups which have been involved with on-campus activities or are meeting on campus. Please send me mail about what you are doing, or even write about it on use.perl. Thanks, Eric -- Request pm.org Technical Support via support ΞΑ pm.org pm_groups mailing list pm_groups ΞΑ pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/pm_groups