Re: Google Summer of Code 2010

2010-03-04 Thread Quentin Mathé
Le 4 mars 2010 à 03:24, Gregory Casamento a écrit : I think that's a good plan. I'm late in the discussion, but that sounds good. You can count me as a mentor too. On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 5:49 PM, David Chisnall thera...@sucs.org wrote: On 3 Mar 2010, at 19:57, Fred Kiefer wrote: What we

Re: Google Summer of Code 2010

2010-03-03 Thread Nicola Pero
I think GSoC is probably a good idea, and I guess I could mentor for it, but I doubt that I'd be very good at mentoring. People have talked about having to chase students and try to get them to do the work, and I'm just never able to do that sort of thing effectively. The potential

Re: Google Summer of Code 2010

2010-03-03 Thread David Chisnall
On 3 Mar 2010, at 19:57, Fred Kiefer wrote: What we need to decide soon is whether we try a GNUstep/Etoile project or go for the bigger GNU one. Chances are higher that the later will get accepted, but there it might turn out harder to get a GNUstep/Etoile project through. Still after last

Re: Google Summer of Code 2010

2010-03-03 Thread Gregory Casamento
I think that's a good plan. GC On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 5:49 PM, David Chisnall thera...@sucs.org wrote: On 3 Mar 2010, at 19:57, Fred Kiefer wrote: What we need to decide soon is whether we try a GNUstep/Etoile project or go for the bigger GNU one. Chances are higher that the later will get

Re: Google Summer of Code 2010

2010-03-02 Thread Fred Kiefer
That was quite an interesting discussion. I asked whether we should participate in GSoC this year in any form and didn't get any reply apart from Yavor's (Who repeated my own proposal). Markus trolled a bit and attracted at least two replies. That should teach me a lesson about mailing list

Re: Google Summer of Code 2010

2010-03-02 Thread David Chisnall
On 2 Mar 2010, at 21:03, Fred Kiefer wrote: That was quite an interesting discussion. I asked whether we should participate in GSoC this year in any form and didn't get any reply apart from Yavor's (Who repeated my own proposal). I forwarded your post to the Étoilé list, but didn't get any

Re: Google Summer of Code 2010

2010-03-02 Thread Niels Grewe
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 09:13:59PM +, David Chisnall wrote: On 2 Mar 2010, at 21:03, Fred Kiefer wrote: That was quite an interesting discussion. I asked whether we should participate in GSoC this year in any form and didn't get any reply apart from Yavor's (Who repeated my own

Re: Google Summer of Code 2010

2010-03-02 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 02.03.2010 um 22:03 schrieb Fred Kiefer: Markus trolled a bit Ah, I tried to find out what's wrong with participating in SoC. So I did, thanks for the answers. and attracted at least two replies. What I didn't find out yet is, where the burden of being a mentor comes from.

Re: Google Summer of Code 2010

2010-03-02 Thread David Chisnall
On 2 Mar 2010, at 22:41, Markus Hitter wrote: What I didn't find out yet is, where the burden of being a mentor comes from. Looking at the Mentor Organization Participant Agreement http://code.google.com/soc/2008/mentor_step1.html, the only work beyond normal day-to-day etiquette is

Re: Google Summer of Code 2010

2010-03-02 Thread Richard Frith-Macdonald
On 2 Mar 2010, at 21:03, Fred Kiefer wrote: That was quite an interesting discussion. I asked whether we should participate in GSoC this year in any form and didn't get any reply apart from Yavor's (Who repeated my own proposal). Sorry for not replying last week ... I spent the week doing

Re: Google Summer of Code 2010

2010-02-27 Thread Gregory Casamento
Markus, On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 3:28 AM, Markus Hitter m...@jump-ing.de wrote: Am 24.02.2010 um 10:42 schrieb Fred Kiefer: They did not select us last year and we failed to attract suitable students in the years before that. Is it possible to learn something from this experience? I mean,

Re: Google Summer of Code 2010

2010-02-25 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 24.02.2010 um 10:42 schrieb Fred Kiefer: They did not select us last year and we failed to attract suitable students in the years before that. Is it possible to learn something from this experience? I mean, if GNUstep isn't attractive to students it might be not attractive to

Re: Google Summer of Code 2010

2010-02-25 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:42:41 +0100, Fred Kiefer написа: if there are participate in a bigger GNU envelop project? Just to mention that since GNUstep is part of the GNU project, it is perfectly possible to participate under the GNU umbrella. ___

Re: Google Summer of Code 2010

2010-02-25 Thread Nicola Pero
They did not select us last year and we failed to attract suitable students in the years before that. Is it possible to learn something from this experience? I mean, if GNUstep isn't attractive to students it might be not attractive to non-students as well. I don't think we failed to

Google Summer of Code 2010

2010-02-24 Thread Fred Kiefer
Google summer of code registration is starting soon (http://code.google.com/intl/de-DE/soc/). Do we want to try to participate again this year? After the previous experience I am not really sure we should. They did not select us last year and we failed to attract suitable students in the years