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Hiya all, |
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Let's do a quick re-cap of Summer of Code '06: |
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Gentoo had 14 project slots, out of these fourteen two were on Gentoo |
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external Gentoo project which I will leave out of the re-cap. |
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That leaves us with twelve projects, four of which were being worked on |
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by at the time current Gentoo developers. Leaving us eight "newcomers," |
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out of these eight four has been recruited and I belicve an additional |
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one is in the recruitment queue. |
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Some of the projects have been picked up and are being worked on daily, |
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some we've had problems getting acceptance for from the projects where |
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they would be most suited (Beacon - GDP), and some may have fizzled off |
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and died when SoC ended (be that because the student were no longer |
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involved and didn't feel that they were welcomed into the community |
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post-soc, or be that because it just didn't end up being a small idea |
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turned explosion). |
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Summer of Code 2006 was thrown together practically overnight, we jumped |
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onboard after the deadline, by pure luck, and due to lack of planning |
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ended up with whatever projects people could think up in no time and |
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what mentors felt comfortable mentoring at said time. |
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Based on the timeframe and having to jump into the deep end I'd say SoC |
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was a tremendous success for us, not least as a recruitment tool. And of |
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course, it feels great to put something back into the community. |
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Summer of Code '07 is about to kick off, those of us who participated in |
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one form or another last year are pretty geared up to do it again. This |
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time around we've got a chance to plan better, apply in time.. |
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Should we SoC? Of course we should! Can we think up projects? Do we have |
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willing mentors? Will Google have us once more? (with feeling) |
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Summer of Code itself should be a lot more organised this year, OSPO has |
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put a fair chunk of work into getting things up to speed and has |
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listened to the feedback of both students and mentoring organisations |
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from last year. |
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-- Christel |
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