Next week there is a summit at Google in Mountain View on the summer of code.

The purpose of the summit is to bring together mentors from successful organizations to discuss several topics: how to improve GSoC, how Google can do more for open source, and what you as mentors and representatives of your development communities can do to help one another.

AJ and I will be there to represent the Debian project; and therefore I’d like to know what your impressions about the “summer of code” were. And of course how GSoC could be improved etc. - you’ve read the “official mission statement”.

I’m not only asking mentors; I’m asking everybody interested with opensource. There are some things where having been a mentor is useful - e.g. for streamlining the screening process - but there are lots of things where you don’t really need much prior knowledge.

One thing, which is very interesting, is trying to do more cooperation among organizations during (or due to) the summer of code.

So please send me your comments to erich@debian.org.