The critical first step seems to be to get OpenACS listed as a
participating mentoring organization. (It
looks like a
student can fill in "Other" for mentoring organization rather than
picking one listed, but depending on that that would
severely
limit the number of OpenACS student candidates - bad.)
Malte, Google doesn't seem to give specific instructions on how to get
signed up as a mentoring organization, but you're on the OpenACS Core
Team, so I recommend you just contact Google ASAP and ask them what to
do. (Who to give the $500 to at the end of the summer is trivial, not
need to worry about that now. If necessary OpenACS can just turn down
the money and tell Google to keep it.)
Btw, Marc G. Fournier posted about this on the PostgreSQL Hackers
list, but so far PostgreSQL isn't listed as a mentoring organization
either. Nor is AOLserver or Tcl. Possibly co-ordinate with the
PostgreSQL, AOLserver, and Tcl folks to get all the major
projects OpenACS uses signed up?
