I mostly agree with Lionel's post. Some small remarks: - I agree with project ownership. Not suggesting a defined project would certainly help having better project proposals. There are many projects this year that just plainly lacks some insight. However, I would still suggest some interesting path to follow (for those who needs insipiration) and/or mention some of the current issues/discussions we currently have in GTG (so that a proposed project also fit our plans).
- We should mention that there is also the GOPW program that offers many mentoring possibilities, without the mandatory no coding requirements. There are a lot of needs that are not specially code-related (documentation, design, etc.), therefore the emphasis on coding abilities matters actually more for GSoC than GOPW. - I fully agree with Lionel on the fact that a list of skills is mostly useless. What I'm interested in is: did you understand what the problem (what it *really* is)? do you have a plan? will you be able to carry it on (if not completely, at least bootstrap it correcty!)? Bertrand On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Lionel Dricot <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Of course, if other people agree with that. > > Le 19/04/12 13:16, Radina Matic a écrit : >> Great post, Lionel! Interesting and useful... :) >> >> Would it be OK if I took out the main points and post them on the >> GTG blog? Together with the link to your post, of course. >> >> Cheers, Radina >> >> >> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 11:54, Lionel Dricot <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Maybe we could switch the technical part and talk about Summer of >> Code. >> >> This year, GTG alone received 15 student proposals. I've even told >> several students to not apply because they were too late anyway. >> >> Some proposals were great and it was a pitty to dismiss them. >> >> But, to be honnest, some proposals were simply not good enough. >> >> I've tried to give advice for next year here: >> http://ploum.net/post/be-selected-student-for-soc >> >> >> Le 19/04/12 09:27, Radina Matic a écrit : >>> Hey guys/gals, anybody has a nice idea for the technical topic >>> that we could put into this week's blog? >> >>> It could cover any of the items on the Recent Changes doc that >>> Ricardo compiled, or some other concept or idea... >> >>> Izidor replied to a couple of comments on our Google+ >>> <https://plus.google.com/105207030598591212625/posts> page that >>> could also be interesting (dynamic quickadd and server >>> synchronization without any web interface). Anybody interested >>> in elaborating these ideas...? >> >>> Let me know, R. >> >>> PS: I could try to jot something down, but it would not be so, >>> well... technical... :( >> >> >>> _______________________________________________ Mailing list: >>> https://launchpad.net/~gtg-contributors >> <https://launchpad.net/%7Egtg-contributors> Post to : >>> [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> Unsubscribe : >>> https://launchpad.net/~gtg-contributors >> <https://launchpad.net/%7Egtg-contributors> More help : >>> https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> >> _______________________________________________ Mailing list: >> https://launchpad.net/~gtg-contributors >> <https://launchpad.net/%7Egtg-contributors> Post to : >> [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> Unsubscribe : >> https://launchpad.net/~gtg-contributors >> <https://launchpad.net/%7Egtg-contributors> More help : >> https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAk+P9S4ACgkQMvYGdShAWjhmjgCeJXX+FzA59GJ1ZG19048MwQio > +BcAoJfk3sH1kKO/ivCVa97h3DYU21TZ > =DCb5 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~gtg-contributors > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~gtg-contributors > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Bertrand Rousseau _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~gtg-contributors Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~gtg-contributors More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
