{"id":767,"date":"2008-04-09T02:41:43","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T07:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/09\/gsoc-mentors-reviewing-students"},"modified":"2008-04-09T02:41:46","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T07:41:46","slug":"gsoc-mentors-reviewing-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/09\/gsoc-mentors-reviewing-students","title":{"rendered":"GSoC: mentors reviewing students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MySQL has till the 18th to review all the student applications we&#8217;ve had for the <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/soc\/2008\/\">Google Summer of Code 2008<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve had 48 applications (it was 49 before one withdrew), up from the 35 that we had last year &#8211; growth! Currently, we also have 3 non-MySQL&#8217;ers being mentors (this is expected to grow), and we&#8217;ve also invited the phpMyAdmin team to mentor folk with their projects in mind, as its a very popular web-based UI.<\/p>\n<p>What really is interesting is that out of the 48 applications, 13 already have owners wanting them! That&#8217;s 13 mentors, ready to go with the early applicants, and this can only mean good news (i.e. more to come). <\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hope that Google provides us more than our previous 10 slots, as in the early stages, we already have a 27% approval rating of students and their projects. Interesting times ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/gsoc\" rel=\"tag\">gsoc<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/gsoc2008\" rel=\"tag\">gsoc2008<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/mysql\" rel=\"tag\">mysql<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/google\" rel=\"tag\">google<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/summer%20of%20code\" rel=\"tag\">summer of code<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20GSoC%3A%20mentors%20reviewing%20students&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F04%2F09%2Fgsoc-mentors-reviewing-students&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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MediaWiki doesn't have great banner support,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;MySQL&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1383,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/03\/20\/mysql-participates-in-google-summer-of-code-2009","url_meta":{"origin":767,"position":4},"title":"MySQL participates in Google Summer of Code 2009!","date":"20\/3\/2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I was a little worried last week with regards to our Google Summer of Code status, but I'm glad to see that MySQL has been accepted, for a third year running, for the Google Summer of Code 2009. Mentors & students alike, check out the ideas page. 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