Le 14 juin 05 à 21:04, David Chisnall a écrit :
On 11 Jun 2005, at 19:34, Alex Perez wrote:
Jesse Ross wrote:
Well, CoreData requires KVO, and I was actually chatting with
Stefan Urbanek about it on IRC a few days ago, wondering aloud to
him what it might cost if we paid a student or perhaps an
unemployed Eastern European programmer who knew what they were
doing (so we could get as much out of our money as possible).
There are probably other routes which may be better, but I was
just brainstorming.
My department is always on the look-out for interesting third-year
projects for undergraduates (to count as 1/3 of their final year
mark). These have to be `practical, problem solving, projects' for
accreditation, and a couple of the lecturers have mentioned to me
that it's hard to keep thinking up interesting ones. Some come
from industry - a company suggests a project, gives some
supervision, and then gets some free work done. If we would like
some work done in this way, then let me know and I will talk to
people.
The catch is that projects are selected around Easter, and started
in September, but it's worth thinking about for next year (we might
be able to get someone this year who didn't get the project they
wanted, but this generally happens more with the less-able
students, since projects are first awarded to those who do best in
their exams. On the other hand, some of the better coders don't
always do well in Computer Science exams...).
Hm indeed that's a good idea -- perhaps not for this year, as you say
it's perhaps too late.
But trying to "sell" the idea of working on an opensource project
doing interesting stuff could very well work, indeed !
For example -- what about improving ProjectCenter ? :D
The nice thing (for the students) would be that with ObjC+GNUstep
+Gorm, I'm sure they can pull off very impressing stuff to show..
--
Nicolas Roard
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
-Arthur C. Clarke
