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/ > OK I'll volunteer to be on that committee. I am no coder so I'm probably unsuited as an individual mentor, but I do have some project mgmt skills.
I kicked off #FG-GSoC on irc.flightgear.org so we don't distract the normal chatter on #flightgear. I'll put together a list of proposed milestones that I think we should be aiming for. One very important milestone will be the finalising of the short-list of projects and their associated mentors. This should be in place by Jan 1 2011. We need to be realistic about projects though and remember that the features we really really want added to FG will not have a line of code written until May 2011 at the very earliest. So we need long-term thinking on this. An important early task MUST be to get commitment from a range of mentors so we can properly support these kids. I have made some minor changes to http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/Google_Summer_of_Code_Candidate_Projects Please add your own thoughts. Perhaps we could have a GSoC section on the spiffy new (pref django-powered) website that will be along anytime soon? Best Regards Willie Fleming ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
