GSOC Proposal Thoughts

2013-04-24 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear GSOC Students, What follows is an excerpt from another email, but I thought that it might be useful for others than the intended recipient. _ I've now seen a few proposals that students have submitted for LyX, and in general, I've found the description

Re: GSOC Proposal Thoughts

2013-04-24 Thread Cyrille Artho
Hi Rob, Good points. I also think that studying internals/research should be done in the community bonding period as much as possible. Even small code changes (to see if the student understands the code, to play around with it) are encouraged. This gives students three weeks to learn about the

GSOC Proposal Thoughts

2013-04-24 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear GSOC Students, What follows is an excerpt from another email, but I thought that it might be useful for others than the intended recipient. _ I've now seen a few proposals that students have submitted for LyX, and in general, I've found the description

Re: GSOC Proposal Thoughts

2013-04-24 Thread Cyrille Artho
Hi Rob, Good points. I also think that "studying internals"/research should be done in the "community bonding period" as much as possible. Even small code changes (to see if the student understands the code, to play around with it) are encouraged. This gives students three weeks to learn about