I would suggest that we go directly for the GNU solution. It seems like Google prefers to have big organisations taking part. Maybe this makes the management easier for Google, I don't know.
But as you wrote, it is more important whether we have contributors interested. Last year was a full success as both GSOC student came from the bigger GNUstep community. And yes, I would mentor again. It really uses up some time, but I did learn a lot last year. Fred Am 01.02.2011 13:38, schrieb David Chisnall: > Is it worth submitting our own application this year? We could try > another GNUstep Ecosystem one, and try to sneak into the GNU one for > GNUstep if it fails. > > More importantly, do we have any student developers who are > interested? In the past, we've had a lot of success from existing > developers who have been able to fund themselves over the summer to > work full time on GNUstep, but much less success from people trying > to make their first contributions as part of the GSoC. > > I'd be happy to mentor again, and we can draft a proposal at FOSDEM > if there are interested students... > > David > > On 31 Jan 2011, at 08:33, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote: > >> The website for the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is up: >> http://www.google-melange.com/ >> >> The timeline is here: >> http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2011/timeline >> >> >> the first important date for our project is February 28 19:00 UTC, when the mentoring organizations can begin submitting applications to Google. >> >> >> cheers, >> >> Lars _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
