Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of SummerOfCodeWelcomeMail

Timestamp:

Apr 8, 2015, 8:22:17 PM (9 years ago)

Author:

neverpanic (Clemens Lang)

Comment:

Let's keep a copy of the mail we usually send to students on acceptance on file somewhere

SummerOfCodeWelcomeMail

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+{{{
+Hello $STUDENT, $STUDENT, $STUDENT
+
+you have been accepted into Google Summer of Code $YEAR and will work for
+MacPorts over the summer. Congratulations, we are happy to have you!
+
+First of all let me welcome you to our organization. I am looking
+forward to a good summer with an interesting project to be implemented
+which will push the MacPorts project further.
+
+Please read our guidelines we put together here:
+<http://trac.macports.org/wiki/SummerOfCodeGuidelines>
+Please keep them in mind during the program as they are meant to avoid
+any problems with your project, your progress or anything else. If you
+have additions to it, further questions or comments, just talk to us.
+
+We are now in the so called community bonding period. This means, we can
+get to know each other better and refine some parts of your proposals
+until the actual coding starts. For this I would like you to get in
+contact with your mentor. Please discuss how often you want to meet
+(once/twice a week for example) and which communication method works
+best for you (Mail, IRC, IM, Skype, ...). You might have submitted an
+initial roadmap as part of your proposal, but we need to stick to some
+milestones and therefore it should match the program timeline if not
+already the case.
+
+Most important dates are:
+
+ * $MIDTERM_DATE: Mid-term evaluations start
+   It would be good to have something to present here. Not only to us
+   the mentors, but also to other developers and maintainers
+
+ * $PENCILSDOWN_DATE: Pencils down
+   After this timeline you should spend the last week only for hot
+   bugfixes and use the time to document your code where not done yet
+   and merge your branch back into MacPorts trunk
+
+Coding is supposed to start on $KICKOFF_DATE, prepare your task in a way which
+allows you to start right away at this date. Of course you can also
+start earlier once you discussed everything with your mentor, we don't
+want to hold you back. :-)
+
+As Google Summer of Code student you will get access to our Subversion
+repository. To create your account, you need to choose a handle (which
+will become your @macports.org address) and a mail address we should
+forward incoming mails to.
+
+How experienced are you with using version control and Subversion in
+particular? If need be, we can arrange a short introduction on IRC or at
+least give you some hints.
+
+As a general rule, we as mentors are here to assist you with your
+project, so please just ask if you need assistance with anything.
+}}}