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Hi:

I'm in the mode of "perfect is enemy of good enough", so I'm going to send out a status right now before I keep waiting to get more done. :)

A handful of people have offered some help, project ideas, and to be the co-/backup admin (an application requirement.) Thanks! Our main needs to complete our application are:

* Ideas, ideas, ideas - SIGs take note! * A backup admin * Mentors (and teams) beginning to commit

Please read on for current status on everything: ideas, mentors, office hours, backup admin, and students.

== Ideas

We need good ideas, and around one mentor for each idea. (It's OK if we have a few more ideas than mentors assigned right now, as long as the idea list is long enough. It's job is to give students ideas on what and how to write their proposals.)

http://wiki.centos.org/GSoC/2014/Ideas

If you have an idea, fill out the template, or email it to me. If you think it needs a bit of discussion first, you can start a thread for it on centos-devel.

SIGs -- this is a great way to get work done toward your variant needs. Packaging, yum plugins, and so forth are all good approaches. It's fine (and encouraged) if the students' work ends up happening primarily in your upstream and we absorb the goodness in to CentOS Linux later.

== Mentors

You are needed, at least one for each student.

You can represent a group, such as release engineering, QA, or a SIG. The rest of your group should be prepared to work with the students on proposals and the final project.

== CentOS Office Hours

We'll use the Monday CentOS Office Hours to talk about GSoC:

http://wiki.centos.org/OfficeHours

That's at 16:00 UTC on a Google Hangout and live on YouTube or via http://www.centos.org/media.

At the moment it will be any of the Board members chatting about things, but we may have room for a few other voices if there is someone else we should include in the discussion.

== Backup admin & administrivia

I'm working the application details here:

http://wiki.centos.org/GSoC/2014/Application

We need a backup admin, it's mandatory for the application. I've heard from a few interested folks, please let me know if you are interested. I'd especially like to work with someone who hasn't administered GSoC before, so I can spread the knowledge. We can have more than one backup admin, but we definitely need one for the application.

Since I'm so new to the community, I'm going to consult the rest of the Board members for who would make good co-/backup-admins. I'll try to get that figured out early next week, let's set Tuesday end-of-day in California for that.

We also need some tags to associate with the project, such as: Linux, yum, RPM, packaging, OpenStack, Ceph, Python, etc. Suggestions welcome.

== Students

Your time to apply hasn't come yet. We need to be accepted as a mentoring org first.

But it is a great thing when existing community members who are also students apply for the projects. I've seen quite a number of very good results from that - getting paid to spend the summer making CentOS Linux or the Project better!

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