On 17 March 2015 at 07:08, Alexandro Colorado <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi seems Google Summer of Code is in high peak nowadays, but I think if we > are > willing to get some help we need to promote the program. I think a good > blogpost could be a good first step. Maybe some articles could follow up > and > get the ball rolling. > In general a good idea, but a bit late, the students are already starting to select projects. > > At this moment I know we dont have any tasks that students can do but I > think > a good think tank could get us to where we want to go. > Well let us start with the beginning, I do not think we have any mentors, at least no one signed up, and I am not sure new mentors can be added so late in the process. > > A few month back there was a discussion about OpenOffice 5.0. Imacat also > was > on a office suite (or spreadsheet) thinktank. These ideas could become > small > projects for us. > I would not hope that 5.0 is a "small" project. Again we should start small, right now we seem unable to get started on 4.1.2 Before we start daydreaming about 5.0 we need to - find a release manager for 4.1.2 - Determine which fixes goes into 4.1.2 - Make the release - Get it tested - and finally get it voted on. Not much a student can help with here (GSocC is mainly programming). rgds jan i. > Last year there was a CMIS project for AOO, I am not sure if it was > finished > succesfully but would be good to hear the stories on what followed up and > some > lessons learned.
