Below are the questions which need to be answered for the Mentoring Organization Application.
The application is due between 3 March and 12 March. Have at it!
PS I think we can leave the Google account information off of this page and just include it when we send in the application.
The Tcl/Tk community includes anybody who uses Tcl/Tk, is interested in Tcl/Tk, or just wants to be in the club! Tcl/Tk is used by a wide range of governmental, commercial and educational institutions around the globe. Many well-known and well-regarded systems such as Expect, AOLserver and YYY have been developed either in Tcl/Tk or using Tcl/Tk as an embedded language. We communicate through IRC (see question x), an active development list (see question y), a wiki (http://wiki.tcl.tk ). This September we will be holding our fifteenth annual conference.
Our application was written by the organizing committee of the annual Tcl/Tk conference, although all members of the Tcl/Tk community were encouraged to participate. The group we have put together to submit this application include members of the Tcl/Tk core team, developers from well-established Tcl/Tk projects (such as AOLserver and OpenACS), and educators.
Warm bodies!
We expect two things from participating in GSoC 2008: we will attract new members to the Tcl community and we will use this new talent to scratch various itches we have not yet had the resources to attack. We think there are many things about Tcl/Tk that are attractive and beneficial to students. The Tcl/Tk code base is very mature and clean. In addition, XXX. Therefore, working with it is an excellent opportunity for students to YYY.
We feel that acceptance of our application will have a large impact on the open source world both because Tcl/Tk is used by a range of governmental and industrial organizations and because of the number of large and influential software systems developed in Tcl/Tk including Expect and ???
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Tcl/Tk is licensed under the Tcl/Tk license (http://tcl.tk/software/tcltk/license.html ), a BSD-like license. Individual projects included with this application may have different open source licenses as indicated in the project descriptions.
Subscription information and list archives can be found at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tcl-core .
Of course, we encourage you to use TkChat (http://wiki.tcl.tk/2619 )! However, many people connect up with us via irc://irc.freenode.net/tcl . The IRC channel is mirrored to/from the groupchat at [email protected].
Students should use the application template available at GSoc 2008 Student Application.
Your name here!
I will collect names from ideas page before submitting the application. Please contact me with your Google account information.
We are selecting mentors by looking at enthusiasm, expertise and their ability to get projects done. We judge these factors y examinging the potential mentor's previous involvement in the Tcl/Tk community and their development history.
The two most important factors in keeping students involved in their project are frequent communication between mentor and student (and between student and others in the Tcl/Tk community), monitoring their progress so students do not flounder when they run into difficulty, and structuring the project so that the time between achievable milestones is short.
Can we request that a professor at their institution be an adjunct Mentor of some sort? I'm not sure that this will help. But what might be worthwhile is to ask for references from a professor (or HS teacher since some applicants might be rising freshmen.
We specify a backup Mentor with each project included in our application. In addition, we have identified a pool of professionals with suitable teaching, CS and Tcl internals knowledge to be tapped if both Mentor and Backup fail.
The Tcl community is quite open, friendly, and easy to get along with.
The ability to code in Tcl provides a leg up in several non-programming careers like chip design, telecommunications, engineering, etc.
Second, we will schedule several irc-based presentation sessions throughout the time period...
We will offer an opportunity to make a presentation and submit a paper at the annual conference to successful projects
We will offer an opportunity to receive a second award for "Best Student Paper" at the conference.
First, we expect successful projects are likely to be included in commercial and/or open source offerings. Therefore students will ..
Second, we will use the portion of the funds that go the mentoring organization in order to fund the students' attendance at the Tcl/Tk Conference in October. In addition, successful students will be offered a publication credit for writing up their work for the annual Tcl/Tk conference.