Re: updating the project ideas list

2018-03-10 Thread Dashamir Hoxha
On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 5:52 PM, Molly de Blanc wrote: > But is Debian an umbrella organization? :P > I would say it depends on the definition made by GSoC. If you include projects that are not directly related to your organization, then you are an umbrella organization (and

Re: updating the project ideas list

2018-03-10 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 10/03/18 17:52, Molly de Blanc wrote: > But is Debian an umbrella organization? :P I agree there is a difference between whether Google sees us that way and whether we see ourselves that way. There was a big debate on debian-devel recently[1] about Debian's relevance because of the problems

Re: Re: updating the project ideas list

2018-03-10 Thread Dashamir Hoxha
Having a look at GSoC guides, I came across this: https://google.github.io/gsocguides/mentor/org-application.html#a-note-on-umbrella-orgs Google’s program administrators actually look quite fondly on the umbrella organizations that participate each year. It serves a dual purpose: it allows

Re: updating the project ideas list

2018-02-17 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2018-02-17, Dashamir Hoxha wrote: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 9:47 PM, Vagrant Cascadian > wrote: >> My assumption and/or preference would be that projects clearly related >> to Debian or very directly beneficial to Debian be given first >> consideration. Maybe that's a

Re: updating the project ideas list

2018-02-17 Thread Dashamir Hoxha
On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 9:47 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2018/Projects/EasyGnuPG > > One of its tasks is to make a Debian package for it. Another thing is that the automated tests have been developed on an Ubuntu environment. They

Re: updating the project ideas list

2018-02-16 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2018-02-16, Daniel Pocock wrote: > I understand there have been a few discussions about the project ideas > list and the variety of projects, some of which are very much core > Debian activities and others being about the wider free software eco-system. > > I don't want to start the full

updating the project ideas list

2018-02-16 Thread Daniel Pocock
Hi all, I understand there have been a few discussions about the project ideas list and the variety of projects, some of which are very much core Debian activities and others being about the wider free software eco-system. I don't want to start the full discussion about that just yet: this