Hi Stefan,
I believe the finding was that there is enough interest to apply again across
the various partner orgs, so I will be preparing an umbrella application this
week. I’ll contact you via the gsocax list (or directly) if there are any
questions, but I don’t anticipate needing much for that.
The biggest item needed is what you’ve already got started, which is to get the
ideas page updated. Looking over your list, I would suggest 1) having at least
10 ideas, and 2) indicating what areas or projects are a priority for you this
year. That is, given equivalent applications, which would be the most
desirable topic.
Cheers!
Sean
> On Feb 7, 2017, at 2:13 AM, Stefan Tröger <stefantroe...@gmx.net> wrote:
>
> Hello Sean, BRL-CAD community,
>
> are there any updates to the GSoC participation? I hope you are positive
> about annother run with GSoC this year! We over at FreeCAD updated our ideas
> page at https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=Google_Summer_of_Code
> <https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=Google_Summer_of_Code>
>
> As there are only 2 days left for registering mentor organisations I like
> some feedback, as we would need at least a day to prepare a own registration
> if you decide to not participate as umbrella organisation.
>
> Regards,
> Stefan
>
>
>> Gesendet: Dienstag, 31. Januar 2017 um 21:14 Uhr
>> Von: "Christopher Sean Morrison" <brl...@mac.com>
>> An: gso...@googlegroups.com
>> Cc: "BRL-CAD Developer Mailing List" <brlcad-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
>> Betreff: [brlcad-devel] GSoC 2017 participation roundup discussion
>> There has been discussions and questions on the list about whether we’re
>> going to participate in GSoC again this year. I know there is support from
>> at least four BRL-CAD mentors (probably more) and FreeCAD. There are
>> incomplete actions from GSoC 2016 that need to be addressed (e.g.,
>> reimbursements and a survey), but that is on me.
>>
>> Is there interest from our orgs or any of our newest GCI mentors?
>>
>> Mentoring GSoC requires a commitment of about 5-10 hours per week (about an
>> hour a day). A mentor must be capable of reviewing work (e.g., running code
>> with their changes) and helping the student progress without them actually
>> relying on you to do something with/for them (e.g., you don’t have to be
>> able to debug their code). You cannot mentor a student that might create a
>> conflict of interest in their evaluation. If there is enough interest, and
>> it’s feeling like there may be already, then there is work needed to clean
>> up our ideas page.
>>
>> Is anyone willing to be the person in charge of setting up the project ideas
>> page?
>>
>> This is part of the org application, so it would need to happen by someone
>> (probably not me) this week, before the org application deadline. It entails
>> getting in touch with each partner org, ensuring their task list is
>> adequately defined, and ensuring that there is adequate prioritized variety.
>> I also think we need to present a more balanced and prioritized view across
>> the partner orgs, as our wiki page is inadequate. Migrating to a different
>> system (e.g., using a GitHub workflow on the OpenCAx account) is not out of
>> the question unless there simply isn’t enough time. Either way, setting up
>> the ideas page content alone will require a time commitment from someone and
>> from each org.
>>
>> Thoughts, discussion? Dissent? Encouragement? :)
>>
>> Cheers!
>> Sean
>
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