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From: joshua jackson <tsunam@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] 2008 Google Summer of Code
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:49:28
Message-Id: 479F82AA.3050804@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] 2008 Google Summer of Code by George Prowse
1 George Prowse wrote:
2 > Grant Goodyear wrote:
3 >> Google has been hinting not-so-subtlely that there's going to be
4 >> a 2008 Google Summer of Code. I expect that if we want to participate,
5 >> we're going to have to have our ducks in a row by March, if not
6 >> earlier.
7 >>
8 >> So, does Gentoo want to participate this year?
9 >>
10 >> If so, who's going to run it? Who's going to help? What are
11 >> we going to do differently this year?
12 >>
13 >> I'll help if it's something people want to do, but I'd like to see
14 >> some serious changes this year. I'd like us to only accept proposals
15 >> that we actually think are quite good. In the past we've been told
16 >> that we
17 >> have N slots to fill, so we choose the best N proposals, despite the
18 >> fact that we often only get a handful of exceptional proposals. I'd
19 >> also like to see us require weekly public status reports from our
20 >> students. Quick show of hands: how many people know how what any
21 >> of our students accomplished last year? I doubt there are many,
22 >> despite the fact that some good work was done last year.
23 >>
24 >> Thoughts? Comments?
25 >>
26 >> -g2boojum-
27 >
28 > How does the SoC work within Gentoo? Do the developers suggest things
29 > they want worked on or do the users suggest things, the developers
30 > okay it and then they get worked on or what?
31 >
32 > George
33 To give a short answer, its a combination of projects suggested by
34 developer and projects submitted by the students. They get reviewed by
35 the User Rel/SOC Staff and put into an order of projects to submit to
36 Google. They then decide which ones they approve of to fund for the
37 students to work on.
38
39 Ultimately its up to google to decide on the projects and how many get
40 funded but we as the project have some say in the order they view them
41 in. This year I'm hoping to get some decent projects that are attainable
42 in the summer for students. We've had unfortunately some that have
43 gotten fairly far but didn't get finished. This will also require
44 mentors who work with the students who can help them succeed as well.
45 Its something I'll be bringing up soon as well to discuss with the
46 developer pool (as my understanding is that at least one mentor must be
47 part of the project), doesn't eliminate mentors from the community but
48 it'd be 2 instead of just one....
49
50 I need to go over more details about it but would like to apply again as
51 a project.
52
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Re: [gentoo-dev] 2008 Google Summer of Code Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>