On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Anthony Sorace <a...@9srv.net> wrote: > As part of the application process, we need to provide a template for > students to use to apply to our org (provided we're accepted). I think what > we used last year was good, but could use some improvement. In particular, I > think we can up our average quality by culling students who aren't really > serious (although there'll always be spammers who apply to everything). > > Some orgs require code samples. That's got merits, but it is a lot of > up-front work for the student working on spec (it's mostly used by larger > orgs). I'd suggest we instead target something that shows the student has > and can work with the system - put your name in a world-writable file on > sources, edit the wiki, or generate a patch (even if just to add your face). > This works for Plan 9 and Inferno, and kinda for p9p. It seems to me that > even if your project is on something else (Glendix, other 9P > implementations) you ought to be able to work with one of those three. > > Thoughts? We need a decision in the next day or so. If nobody objects or has > any other proposals, I'll do something like the above. > > Anthony >
in case of working with 9P, i think the student should understand what are the uses the protocol has seen (file servers) and give one of the implementations a try. iru -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Plan 9 Google Summer of Code" group. To post to this group, send email to plan9-g...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to plan9-gsoc+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/plan9-gsoc?hl=en.
