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George Prowse wrote: |
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> Grant Goodyear wrote: |
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>> Google has been hinting not-so-subtlely that there's going to be |
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>> a 2008 Google Summer of Code. I expect that if we want to participate, |
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>> we're going to have to have our ducks in a row by March, if not |
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>> earlier. |
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>> So, does Gentoo want to participate this year? |
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>> If so, who's going to run it? Who's going to help? What are |
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>> we going to do differently this year? |
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>> I'll help if it's something people want to do, but I'd like to see |
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>> some serious changes this year. I'd like us to only accept proposals |
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>> that we actually think are quite good. In the past we've been told |
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>> that we |
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>> have N slots to fill, so we choose the best N proposals, despite the |
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>> fact that we often only get a handful of exceptional proposals. I'd |
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>> also like to see us require weekly public status reports from our |
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>> students. Quick show of hands: how many people know how what any |
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>> of our students accomplished last year? I doubt there are many, |
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>> despite the fact that some good work was done last year. |
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>> Thoughts? Comments? |
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>> -g2boojum- |
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> How does the SoC work within Gentoo? Do the developers suggest things |
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> they want worked on or do the users suggest things, the developers |
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> okay it and then they get worked on or what? |
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> |
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> George |
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To give a short answer, its a combination of projects suggested by |
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developer and projects submitted by the students. They get reviewed by |
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the User Rel/SOC Staff and put into an order of projects to submit to |
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Google. They then decide which ones they approve of to fund for the |
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students to work on. |
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Ultimately its up to google to decide on the projects and how many get |
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funded but we as the project have some say in the order they view them |
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in. This year I'm hoping to get some decent projects that are attainable |
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in the summer for students. We've had unfortunately some that have |
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gotten fairly far but didn't get finished. This will also require |
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mentors who work with the students who can help them succeed as well. |
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Its something I'll be bringing up soon as well to discuss with the |
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developer pool (as my understanding is that at least one mentor must be |
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part of the project), doesn't eliminate mentors from the community but |
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it'd be 2 instead of just one.... |
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I need to go over more details about it but would like to apply again as |
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a project. |
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