{"id":69,"date":"2007-09-14T10:42:01","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T08:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2007\/09\/14\/gsoc-mentor-summit-2007\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T11:29:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T09:29:03","slug":"gsoc-mentor-summit-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2007\/09\/14\/gsoc-mentor-summit-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"GSOC Mentor Summit 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockbox.org\/\">Rockbox<\/a> was a participating mentor organization of <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/soc\/2007\/\">Google&#8217;s Summer of Code 2007<\/a>, and I was the organization administrator in our end. It turned out to be a rather easy job and in the end I didn&#8217;t end up mentoring anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/google_150x58.gif\" title=\"Google\" alt=\"Google\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" height=\"58\" hspace=\"15\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"150\">Now they&#8217;re arranging a Summit in Mountain View, California in the beginning of October (like they obviously did <a href=\"http:\/\/google-code-updates.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/google-summer-of-code-mentor-summit.html\">last year<\/a>) and Rockbox as organization is invited to send three representatives. They are even graciously funding people to go there, and they pay for a night at a hotel and food. Very grand indeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If my life had been different at this point I would&#8217;ve been thrilled to go there. Now, with two small kids it&#8217;s just not practically possible. I&#8217;ve already stretched my &#8220;allowance&#8221; from my family by the upcoming week-long trip to China in mid-October. So while it wouldn&#8217;t cost me personally much money-wise, it unfortunately doesn&#8217;t fit right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rockbox was a participating mentor organization of Google&#8217;s Summer of Code 2007, and I was the organization administrator in our end. It turned out to be a rather easy job and in the end I didn&#8217;t end up mentoring anyone. Now they&#8217;re arranging a Summit in Mountain View, California in the beginning of October (like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2007\/09\/14\/gsoc-mentor-summit-2007\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GSOC Mentor Summit 2007<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rockbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28216,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/28216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}