VPN (was Re: SoC update)
On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 14:19 -0400, ext dclist wrote: > I would really like to see the 'make-VPN-easier' picked up if anyone > is able to mentor that. This is the sort of thing that should be > already incorporated with the device. I'm trying to find a mentor in Nokia for this one. About the VPN feature itself, if someone comes up with a wiki page or a bugzilla RFE with a rationale and objectives I will be happy adding it as wishlist in the public roadmap. -- Quim Gil - http://maemo.org ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: SoC update
On 4/2/07, Quim Gil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://maemo.org/maemowiki/GoogleSoC2007 updated, now you can see the (more or less) current status of the projects submitted. - Projects with one and only clear mentor have been assigned. - There are other projects that have mentor candidates but still some details to be clarified. More than one mentor for a same project, same mentor in several projects and things like that. - Other projects have potential mentors around but nothing I can approve by clicking the right button. - It would be good to clarify these cases asap. Community mentors have got one week to select their projects, now it's time for the backup mentors to help orphan projects, if they wish. [...] I would really like to see the 'make-VPN-easier' picked up if anyone is able to mentor that. This is the sort of thing that should be already incorporated with the device. ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: SoC update
Hello everybody, I'm the student that sent in the "Easy wireless interaction of Maemo-devices and pc's" proposal. As my project is one of the orphan project I put my original proposal and a small update resulting from the comments made on my proposal online. You can find them on http://www.realnitro.be/files/MaemoSoC.txt and http://www.realnitro.be/files/MaemoSoC_wrapped.txt Is anyone willing to mentor my proposal? Greetings, Jens Geiregat On 4/2/07, Quim Gil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://maemo.org/maemowiki/GoogleSoC2007 updated, now you can see the (more or less) current status of the projects submitted. - Projects with one and only clear mentor have been assigned. - There are other projects that have mentor candidates but still some details to be clarified. More than one mentor for a same project, same mentor in several projects and things like that. - Other projects have potential mentors around but nothing I can approve by clicking the right button. - It would be good to clarify these cases asap. Community mentors have got one week to select their projects, now it's time for the backup mentors to help orphan projects, if they wish. - I'm surprised about the small percentage of mentor votes we have for each project, even in the best ranked. I mean, all in all most of the mentors have ranked one or more projects, but only a few have gone through, say, more than 4-5. Most mentors if not all seem to be skilled and have a wide perspective. Can you help prioritizing projects with your votes, even in those projects that are not closely related to your interests? This applies to backup mentors as well. - It has been (unofficially?) said that after tomorrow Google is going to assign slots to the projects. I believe we will have more chances if we have more mentors in place and a bigger collection of opinions ranking the best candidates. -- Quim Gil - http://maemo.org ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: SoC update
On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 11:49 +0300, Quim Gil wrote: [...] > - I'm surprised about the small percentage of mentor votes we have for > each project, even in the best ranked. I mean, all in all most of the > mentors have ranked one or more projects, but only a few have gone > through, say, more than 4-5 [...] I catched up on this now. > - It has been (unofficially?) said that after tomorrow Google is going > to assign slots to the projects. I believe we will have more chances if > we have more mentors in place and a bigger collection of opinions > ranking the best candidates. I would really like to see more comments on the Java proposal. I wounder why there a non except Quim Gil's and my own up to now. Please other mentors, tell me what you are missing in the proposal or what are your oppinions. I can't imagine nobody of you has an opinion on Java for maemo. Give the student and me a chance to probably clarify things for you. Remember you have the possibility to vote neutral (N/A). Greets, Johannes. ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
SoC update
http://maemo.org/maemowiki/GoogleSoC2007 updated, now you can see the (more or less) current status of the projects submitted. - Projects with one and only clear mentor have been assigned. - There are other projects that have mentor candidates but still some details to be clarified. More than one mentor for a same project, same mentor in several projects and things like that. - Other projects have potential mentors around but nothing I can approve by clicking the right button. - It would be good to clarify these cases asap. Community mentors have got one week to select their projects, now it's time for the backup mentors to help orphan projects, if they wish. - I'm surprised about the small percentage of mentor votes we have for each project, even in the best ranked. I mean, all in all most of the mentors have ranked one or more projects, but only a few have gone through, say, more than 4-5. Most mentors if not all seem to be skilled and have a wide perspective. Can you help prioritizing projects with your votes, even in those projects that are not closely related to your interests? This applies to backup mentors as well. - It has been (unofficially?) said that after tomorrow Google is going to assign slots to the projects. I believe we will have more chances if we have more mentors in place and a bigger collection of opinions ranking the best candidates. -- Quim Gil - http://maemo.org ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
SoC update
Hi, Things are going not-bad in the Summer of Code project. We currently have 7 project proposals, 8 community mentors, 8 backup mentors (Nokia employees) and 1 administrator (myself, Nokia employee too). You can see titles and names at http://maemo.org/maemowiki/GoogleSoC2007 PROJECT PROPOSALS The deadline for student proposals is in 4 days (March 26; applications must be received by 5:00 PM Pacific time (12:00 AM UTC March 27, 2007). I haven't looked in depth to the proposals yet and I still haven't got an opinion about their quality and feasibility. We don't know either if there are more proposals being worked on, hopefully yes. In general I think it would be good to have more proposals to choose from and rank. COMMUNITY MENTORS I have been approving all the candidates that went through the Google form. No reliability checked. Mentor reliability depends a lot on the quality/feasibility of the project a mentor is tied, so it is a bit of chicken and egg game to see which projects+mentors need to be promoted at the top of the list. Currently 3 mentors have requested ownership of 1 of the 7 projects proposed. We will have 10 days or so to discuss all this internally, between all mentors. BACKUP MENTORS We will follow the plan, and these backup mentors working at Nokia won't take ownership of any project. They are there now in order to help studying proposals, provide background info etc. They will be there to help in the case a project has problems delivering. Let's leave just a 2cm open door to a possibility of an ideal project proposal having their ideal mentor counterpart in a backup mentor, and everybody agrees that it would be stupid not to take this opportunity. Hopefully we don't need to use these 2cm, though. ORGANIZATION ADMINS Currently we have just one: myself. I volunteered to bootstrap this process in order to get a SoC opportunity for maemo and the mission is accomplished now. We need one or more community administrators and I would stay as backup admin, just in case help is needed. A first rule of this game was that maemo @ SoC is a community driven initiative. The idea was brought by community people, and the best way to keep this aim is having community people in the key positions. Conclusion: we need 2 administrators, can you please decide which ones? SoC CASH There are still no candidates to get the cash paid by Google to the organizations taking part in the SoC. Just think of a cool project/group around maemo needing some cash to do great things and we will redirect the Google money there. Maemo hasn't got an entity by its own, as for today is a Nokia owned brand. Another fundamental rule of the game was Nokia or Nokia employees won't receive a cent from this program. Propose alternatives, Google doesn't need to save that money. ;) -- Quim Gil - http://maemo.org ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
