Joining Google Summer of Code this year?

[Christian Stimming]

Dear all,

this year another Google Summer of Code (GSoC) will be held:  
http://socghop.appspot.com/

GnuCash has participated as a "Mentoring Organization" at the GSOC in  
2007, see http://code.google.com/soc/2007/gnucash/about.html . This  
was an interesting and helpful experience, even though the initially  
expected outcome was not quite met. Nevertheless our project  
eventually had some profit by the new code and new features (CSV  
importer).

I would like to give it a try again. I will volunteer to act as a  
mentor for at least one project, and I would use this opportunity to  
really keep close contact to the student(s) who work on tasks within  
gnucash. This includes, but is not limited to, frequent email  
messages, instant messaging, and even regular phone conversations.

For the mentoring organizations, the registration phase is next week  
(between March 8 and March 12). We would need to designate an  
"organization administrator" -  last time this was Derek. Who would  
like to volunteer for this role? Derek again, maybe?

In addition to applying as mentoring organization, everyone here can  
add potential project ideas on our wiki page  
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/SoC2010 , including proposals for who can  
serve as a mentor (or backup mentor) for those projects.

Questions? Comments?

Regards,

Christian