GSoC Pre-Application IRC Chats
Okay, potential GSoC students. By now you’ve hopefully settled on a project idea or are narrowing it down between a couple of choices, have gotten some feedback by sending your ideas to the wp-hackers list, and/or have talked to mentors in the #wordpress-gsoc irc channel. For the next 6 days, we’ll be holding scheduled irc chats with a rotating cast of WordPress mentors, who are all looking forward to talking with you and hearing a little more about you before they start rating applications. You can use this time to ask questions, get live feedback on your proposal and just show your face (read: irc handle) so the mentors know you are serious about wanting to work with WordPress this summer.
Format: each chat will be scheduled for an hour. Below is the schedule in UTC time (linked date/time goes to world clock site for easy local time translation). At the beginning of each chat, we’ll ask which students want to be speak. We’ll put them in a random order, and give each student 5 minutes. If we have enough time to give more, we will. You can direct your questions to a specific mentor, or to the mentors at large. When your time is up, please be respectful and let the other students have their turns. You can always talk more with mentors after the scheduled chat is over, as they’ll be lurking in the room all week until the application deadline on April 8.
The chat location is irc.freenode.net #wordpress-gsoc. If you are planning to attend a chat, please leave a comment on this post and link to your proposal (on your WordPress-powered blog) so that mentors can look it over before you talk to them in irc.
Good luck!
| Date/Time | Mentors |
| Friday, 4/1/2011 23:00 UTC |
Alex M. – Viper007Bond Aaron Jorbin – jorbin Austin Matzko – filosofo Eric Mann – ericmann Chris Jean – chrisbliss18 Andrew Nacin – nacin John James Jacoby – jjj Justin Shreve – jshreve Cristi Burca – scribu Michael Erlewine -mitcho, mitchoyoshitaka Dominik Schilling – ocean90 Aaron Campbell – aaroncampbell |
| Saturday, 4/2/2011 19:00 UTC |
Cristi Burca – scribu Thorsten Ott – tott Andrew Nacin – nacin Nikolay Bachiyski – nbachiyski Pete Mall – petemall Austin Matzko – filosofo Dominik Schilling – ocean90 |
| Sunday, 4/3/2011 01:00 UTC |
Michael Erlewine -mitcho, mitchoyoshitaka Daryl Koopersmith – koopersmith Andy Skelton – skeltoac John James Jacoby – jjj Peter Westwood – westi Eric Mann – ericmann Alex M. – Viper007Bond Dominik Schilling – ocean90 Dion Hulse – dd32 |
| Monday, 4/4/2011 14:00 UTC |
Andrew Nacin – nacin Daryl Koopersmith – koopersmith Andy Skelton – skeltoac Justin Shreve – jshreve Jon Cave – duck_ Peter Westwood – westi Dan Roundhill – mrroundhill Thorsten Ott – tott Nikolay Bachiyski – nbachiyski Dion Hulse – dd32 |
| Tuesday, 4/5/2011 10:00 UTC |
Cristi Burca – scribu Nikolay Bachiyski – nbachiyski Peter Westwood – westi Dan Roundhill – mrroundhill Thorsten Ott – tott Jon Cave – duck_ John James Jacoby – jjj Dion Hulse – dd32 |
| Wednesday, 4/6/2011 17:00 UTC |
Pete Mall – petemall Aaron Campbell – aaroncampbell Austin Matzko – filosofo Thorsten Ott – tott Chris Jean – chrisbliss18 Andy Skelton – skeltoac Dan Roundhill – mrroundhill Jon Cave – duck_ Daryl Koopersmith – koopersmith Nikolay Bachiyski – nbachiyski Justin Shreve – jshreve |
Thomas Van Eyck, 
Gaurav Aggarwal 4:07 pm on April 1, 2011 Permalink
Yes i would like to attend chat. My primary proposal is available at http://logiclord.com/wp-admin-for-android-app
Anirudh 4:26 am on April 2, 2011 Permalink
I am planning to work on the “Refresh the Android App UI” idea. My proposal is available at http://anirudhspider.wordpress.com/project-idea-for-gsoc-2011/
Thomas Van Eyck 7:20 am on April 4, 2011 Permalink
I will be joining today. My proposal is posted on: http://www.thomasvaneyck.com
See you later!
thomaskul 12:29 pm on April 4, 2011 Permalink
Hi, sadly I have an unexpected appointment, so I cannot make it today. Tomorrow I will be here for sure to pick up. I would like to go over some of the details and try to finalize the scope of the project, so I can finalize the proposal. My apologies!
Capripot 10:31 am on April 4, 2011 Permalink
Hi !
I would like to discuss my proposals this afternoon, is it possible ?
Here it is my blog : http://gsoc.capripot.com/touch-optimized-admin/
Márton Molnár 8:33 pm on April 4, 2011 Permalink
Hi all! I would like to participate tomorrow (Tuesday). My proposal can be found here: http://www.molnarm.info/2011/04/01/gsoc-application/
Wojtek Szkutnik 8:26 pm on April 5, 2011 Permalink
I will be attending the next chat. Proposal: http://wojtekszkutnik.com/2011/04/google-summer-of-code-2011-proposal-enhanced-emails/
Thomas Van Eyck 3:33 pm on April 6, 2011 Permalink
I will be attending as well. I would like to discuss one more time the scope. Im still doubting if the entire filters proposal isn’t to big. Without will be perhaps too small, but with might be just to big to guarantee quality.