--- Djihed Afifi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Salam Nadim, > > This is pretty urgent. I sent this via IRC to you a while ago and to > the mailing list.
For serious topics (like this one), do please use the mailing-lists. I'm moving this to the 'general' list in hopes of getting other people's opinion and input plus this topic needs a wider circulation. > Check out http://code.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=10442 > > Google summer of code: google offering money for people to work on OSS > projects. OSS organisations should apply (like us). We can make a case > for some of our projects (which I'll do), and we need one administrator > as point of contact with Google. Wanna be that? > > Deadline 5-12 march Sure or if possible we can use the 'contact@' email alias - that would be best. > If you see the organisation list there are many who are more obscure > than arabeyes. + we can make a strong base for some of our much needed > projects. > > Please do reply with your view on this. Deadline is approaching. I don't think we can simply apply for the sake of applying - we need to suggest what it is we're be working on and we need to line-up who will be doing this work, no ? In other words, shouldn't we know ahead of time what it is that we're looking to get done (or accomplish) before we sign-up for anything and who will do that work ? Pointing at our "daunting" Todo list for Google's "URL for your ideas page" seems a bit overkill in that we don't know if we'll get people to sign-up for any of that. My suggestions - 1. We break out our todo list into smaller (more manageable) pieces with exact completion requirements. 2. We apply to Google's Summer.Of.Code with the list completed by #1. 3. We augment and refine the list and heavily recruit people with mention of money in hopes of that being a motivator. 4. If we end-up with no takers (worse case scenario) then some of us will have to "bite the bullet" and do some of the work - we'll need 3-4 people for this. Thoughts/directions/opinions/volunteers ? Salam. - Nadim ____________________________________________________________________________________ TV dinner still cooling? Check out "Tonight's Picks" on Yahoo! TV. http://tv.yahoo.com/
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