Reagan Thomas wrote: > Curtis Olson wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Gene Buckle <ge...@deltasoft.com >> <mailto:ge...@deltasoft.com>> wrote: >> >> Curt, could the lack of enthusiasm been more due to the short >> timeframe >> than anything else? AFAIK, the GSoC participants are thinking >> about their >> entry *months* in advance. >> >> Why not make a note to revist a GSoC entry about 2-3 months >> before the >> 2011 entry deadline? That gives you guys plenty of time to >> identify the >> best use of the GSoC resources for FlightGear and a well prepared >> proposal >> would go a long way towards getting it accepted. >> >> >> Hi Gene, >> >> What you are sayin' makes sense. >> >> Why don't we form a GSOC "committee" for lack of a better name. This >> committee could start thinking and preparing right now, or at least a >> couple months in advance. I'm willing to participate, but I can't >> commit to pulling lead and carrying all the load myself. Do we have >> anyone who would want to take charge of this effort, get things >> rolling, get things organized, keep track of deadlines, and just do >> whatever it takes to push this through for next year? We need a >> couple dedicated people to step forward and take charge here. >> Otherwise we'll be sayin' the same things at this time next year. :-) >> >> Regards, >> >> Curt. >> -- >> Curtis Olson: http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt/ >> <http://baron.flightgear.org/%7Ecurt/> > Hi, Curt. > > Another F/OSS project I've been watching for years is BZFlag. They've > participated in GSoC three years in a row and seem to have been pretty > successful each time. They've also been quite good at documenting > their efforts; reading their GSoC wiki pages could be a great guide > for future FG GSoC efforts (see > http://my.bzflag.org/w/Google_Summer_of_Code ). One thing that's > pretty clear is that the first burden of success is on the mentors to > be available for the students. Using IRC seems to have worked out > pretty well, even with many time zones between the student and mentor. > > I think FG is an excellent candidate project for GSoC because it > involves so many different and interesting disciplines. It should be > easy to attract bright and enthusiastic students. To pull it off, > though, requires advance planning and a genuine commitment of time on > the part of seasoned developers who are to be mentors. As an example, > in spite of previous successes with GSoC, BZFlag is not participating > this year... because they need to get their next release out! > > -Reagan > I should have included this link to their 2007 GSoC "post mortem": http://my.bzflag.org/gsoc/bzflag_gsoc2007_post_mortem.pdf
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