Hello -- > Are you guys going to be doing GSoC for 2008?
As Al pointed out, we will do GSoC in 2008 if Google holds the program. We have spent some time thinking about how to make it more successful for gEDA. IMO, our biggest change for 2008 will be to try to throw support to the student developers who start early and/or are already working with us. The reason is this: Many students (understandably) want some money for hacking code over the summer. For some of them, GSoC is a cool summer job. However, this doesn't necessarily lead to the best result for the gEDA project since many students don't finish their stuff before the summer (and the money) runs out. Unfortunately, it's too easy (and too common) for students to say "good bye" at the end of the summer (and money), leaving us with a pile of useless, half-finished code. We want people who will stick around and continue contributing to the project long after the summer is over. The only way to know if that will happen is to work with people who have proven themselves by already contributing to the project. They're the folks who do it because they're really interested in the project; for them the money is nice, but is only *part* of the reason they work on gEDA. Students like that are the ones we want to support. Therefore, students thinking about participating in GSoC 2008 and gEDA may want to start early in thinking about what kind of project they want to work on, contact us early, and start fiddling with the code as early as they can! Cheers, Stuart _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
