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On 04/04/2010 03:21 AM, Jacob Godserv wrote: |
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> The purpose of this e-mail is to express deep interest in contributing |
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> towards Gentoo in ways that I am most effective during GSoC, and ask |
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> what the expectations are for an applicant. Since I already have a |
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> job, the questions are written with that in mind: |
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> *) In your experience, how much time does a student spend on a |
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> project? I understand you aren't the student who does the work, or |
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> that students vary greatly, so I will be satisfied with whatever you |
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> can give me for an answer. |
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If you are not able to work full time on the project, then it's likely |
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that other students who can are preferred over you if their applications |
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are as good. For project planning purposes I will be requiring my |
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students to log the hours they spend on tasks so that we can track velocity. |
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> *) Who are these projects designed for? Are they designed for Gentoo? |
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> Or are they designed for a specific skill level? In other words, are |
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> they just a list of things that need to get done, and a student can |
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> pick the one that seems to fit them best Or are they all meant to be |
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> handled by a particular crowd, who can pick whatever? |
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The project ideas are mostly something that mentors think would benefit |
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Gentoo either as a whole or in the are of Gentoo that they themselves |
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works on. All ideas are open for everyone but if you for example take a |
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look at the Gentoo/Java subjects it helps in writing a good application |
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to already have some experience using our stuff. |
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> *) I always get very nervous whenever there are deadlines, because I |
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> know, in the field of programming at least, deadlines are |
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> extraordinarily hard to meet. What factors do you think determine |
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> success in a project? What made or broke previous students' plans? |
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Deadlines motivate people. For my own students I'll be doing project |
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management with them so you are not left to setting deadlines yourself. |
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I mainly require the applications to have good set of deliverables for |
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midterm and the whole project and then work iteratively towards those goals. |
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Regards, |
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Petteri |
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