Hi Marty, good points. Do you have resources to get involved into GSoC? Could you be a mentor?
Best, Mario On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Marty Jack <[email protected]> wrote: > I continue to think one of the best uses of a summer student would be to take > a look at LXDE as if coming into it fresh, and see what getting-started and > ongoing management tools are expected. > > This is a little more than coding feverishly. You do not want to end up with > a bloated thing that replicates everything available in GNOME or KDE. This > is part of what in my view has gone wrong with Xfce in its latest release. > If people want the comforts of GNOME or KDE, they should run GNOME or KDE. > You want sufficient finesse to give people what they need, such as a way to > configure their input devices, without overdesign. It would require getting > familiar with what's available in the competitive DEs and making intelligent > choices. > > One possible output of that would be a configuration application that pulls > together the existing several tools into a single one that probably has > buttons you can drill down into to set different things. Then in each area, > you design a lightweight yet sufficient parameter setting application. > > And a getting started HOWTO that takes care of answering most of the > questions a new user would have about how to do things. > > The other observation I would make is that putting ten coders on a project > produces far more code than we would want in LXDE. At some point soon, LXDE > will be sufficiently fleshed out to be called "done" in the sense that adding > things to it erodes the lightness in an undesirable way. > > We have also talked about redoing the internals of GPicView on top of the > ImageView library same as Viewnior uses, which would be a nice little project > for someone, but might be too easy to challenge someone for an entire summer. > > On 03/23/2010 10:25 AM, Shae Smittle wrote: >> I hope to apply as a student. I will hopefully be able to work a little >> more on lxde after my round of mid-term exams tomorrow. I would love to >> discuss ideas for what to do for SoC. >> >> Shae >> >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 6:19 AM, Arne Bleckert <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Mario Behling schrieb: >> > Dear all, >> > >> > we are in the preparation phase for the GSoC program. >> > >> > 1. MENTORS >> > Right now, we need to form a team of mentors. >> > a) We need primary mentors who can take care of students during >> the summer. >> > b) We need backup mentors in case primary mentors are temporarily >> absent. >> > Please reply to this email if you would be able to support the program >> > with mentorship or know somebody who could be a mentor. >> > >> > 2. MORE IDEAS >> > We need more ideas on the idea page. It would be good if we can give >> > students some choices. Prospectus students should also add their ideas >> > here, please: http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Google_Summer_of_Code_2010 . >> > There is also an older page of LXDE to dos. Maybe you can get some >> > ideas here as well: http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXDE_To_Do >> > >> > 3. STUDENT APPLICATIONS >> > Who is interested to apply as a student for LXDE? It would be a good >> > idea to start discussing ideas on this list. Personally, it would be >> > great if we could also support contributors, who have been already >> > active in the LXDE community. >> > >> > 4. ALLOCATION OF STUDENT SLOTS >> > Students slots will be allocated by Google according to the percentage >> > of all applications to all projects in GSoC. This means the more >> > applications we get, the more choice we have to take students in and >> > the more students we can actually take in. >> >> Since I don't have much time this summer due to my bachelor thesis I >> normally wouldn't apply. But if the Mentors are choosing the students(?) >> I could just apply to increase perceantage. What do you think? >> >> >> > >> > I am looking forward to your replies. >> > >> > All the best, >> > >> > Mario >> > >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 _______________________________________________ Lxde-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list
