Perl and 2008 Google Summer of Code.

Organizations

The Perl Foundation has been officially accepted as a mentor organization.

Eric Wilhelm will be directing traffic and assisting all of these cooperating "departments".

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• TPF primary admin: Eric Wilhelm <ewilhelm at cpan dot org>
• Backup: Richard Dice <rdice at perlfoundation dot org>

Departments:

• Perl 6 and Parrot
• pilot: Jerry Gay <jerry.gay+soc2008 at gmail dot com>
• co-pilot: Will Coleda
• Perl 5 Modules and Applications
• pilot: Steffen Müller <smueller at cpan dot org>
• co-pilot: Alberto Simões <ambs at cpan dot org>
• Catalyst
• pilot: Jonathan Rockway <jon at jrock dot us>
• co-pilot: Kieren Diment <kieren at diment dot org>
• Moose
• pilot: Stevan Little <stevan.little at iinteractive dot com>
• co-pilot: Chris Prather <chris.prather at iinteractive dot com>
• BPS (svk, Jifty, RT, Shipwright)
• pilot: Jesse Vincent <jessev at gmail dot com>
• co-pilot: Chia Liang Kao <clkao at gmail dot com>
• Bricolage
• pilot: David Wheeler <david at kineticode dot com>
• co-pilot: Matt Rolf <rolfm at denison dot edu>

The manager (pilot) for each department will be responsible for:

• whipping all project ideas into shape - more details to be found on the gsoc2008_projects page.
• co-ordinating mentors to review and rate applications from students
• fielding questions from 'lost' students (or mentors) during March
• making final decisions in the application ranking process.

When coding begins,coursework the managers will be expected to keep their mentors and students on track and will keep the administrator informed on a weekly basis assignment.

If you have questions, please "ask" in #soc-help on irc.perl.org.

Todo before March 20th:

• tell local students about the opportunity and encourage them to propose a project.

Mailing List:

For students, mentors and managers:

Important Dates, from the FAQ:

http://code.google.com/soc/2008/