Comments inline: On 10/03/2014 11:11, "Andreas Kuckartz" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Sergio Fernández: >> And remember that you do not need to be PMC/committer; > >Correct. > >Last year there were students who submitted perfectly reasonable project >ideas to another ASF top-level project and did not even get a single >reply - which to me indicates that such a project likely is dead (I just >looked, in the case I had in mind the project fortunately is still >alive, but I wonder what had happened). > >While a mentor is required for a GSoC project a good student will not >depend on a mentor to be able to work on a project but will join the >community and do what is necessary. It probably is more difficult for a >student to work without someone guiding him or her, but at least the >*source code* is available to work with! In principal yes, the downside is that you are less likely to get GSoC students doing the projects because part of the motivator for the students is the money. If there is a lack of mentors students are likely to propose other projects thus increasing their chances of getting selected and paid (assuming they meet the goals and sign offs for the project) Rob > >> Andreas Kuckartz has proposed MARMOTTA-460, so he >> could be a potential mentor if he would be >> interested to, for example. > >Yes, I am potentially interested. My main interest is to find someone >who is interested in developing tools which help to experimentally >develop the OParl specification (http://oparl.org) [German only, >internationalization is on the agenda] and similar vocabularies. > >Cheers, >Andreas
