I've done it before, with some good results. (and some bad ones too) The mentors willing to help is a big one... a student will probably soak up 3-4 hours a week in the first weeks as they get their feet wet. most of mine just pinged me directly until they got the message to ping the mailing list ;-0. open source development is dramatically different than the assignments they do @college and it takes a bit of getting used to for them.
The projects should be smallish in nature.. they have 3 months or something to complete it, and most of them don't work full time on it. so if you think it would take yourself a month to do, it would be suitable for them to do in 3. and also you want a clearly defined deliverable at the end of it. as for an idea. I think a complex example using cassandra as a back end would be useful, so that others can take that project and see how to do things. On Jan 28, 2010, at 6:30 AM, Krishna Sankar wrote: > Good. I think we need two things: > a) List of projects / features that are possible candidates > b) Mentors willing to help > > And of course, a SoC wiki page or part of a page, for potential students to > look at. I can get a crack at setting up the page and identifying a few ideas > as a starting point. Thoughts ? > Cheers > <k/> > > On Jan 27, 2010, at Wed Jan 27, 10, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > >> I hadn't thought about that, but it's a great idea. >> >> I imagine the ASF will be a qualified organization once again with no >> further work necessary on our part in that area, so all we'd need to >> do would be come up with projects of appropriate scope. >> >> Any ideas there? >> >> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Krishna Sankar <ksanka...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Folks, >>> As many of you might have seen, the Google SoC 2010 is >>> approaching[1]. Would it be a good idea to start collecting a few ideas and >>> explore SoC possibilities ? >>> <k/> >>> [1] >>> http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-discuss/browse_thread/thread/d839c0b02ac15b3f > -- Ian Holsman i...@holsman.net
