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Hi! In case you have forgotten, today is the first day of the GSoC, time to start coding! You are very welcome to send a report (or blog) about how your bonding period went and if ask if you have any doubts. There are some small things we want to tell/ask you all: - Please, send me in a private email how to contact you in case we don't have news from you. At least a phone number (include all the needed prefixes for international calls!). - If you haven't yet, please add your project proposal to the Debian wiki so everybody interested in the Debian community can know more about your project and maybe even help you with ideas and suggestions. - If you have a blog where you are planning to publish posts about your project, please let us know so we can include it on Planet Debian. Add a hackergotchi if you have one. Also, take a look at http://wiki.debian.org/PlanetDebian, especially the "What Can I Post On Planet" part. - There are *two* compulsory evaluations students and mentors must file. If the student and mentor do not file it, Google will mark the project as failed and won't fund the student. If you are a mentor who can not file the evaluations, please let to know in advance so a orga admin can file it for you. The dates are: - midterm 11-15 July at 19:00 UTC - final 22-26 August at 19:00 UTC - *VERY IMPORTANT* Besides the Google evaluations, students must write 5 reports that should be sent to this mailing list[1] If you are planning to blog those reports, please email a copy to this list anyway. Do not send a link, send the text itself to the list so it gets archived for future years. We haven't thought yet what happens if a student fails to send a report, please do not make us have to do it ;) So the calendar for the reports is the following: May 2011 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 <-- Last week of bonding period. 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 <-- Monday 23, coding starts 29 30 31 June 2011 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 4 <-- 2nd week, 1st report 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 <-- 4th week, 2nd report 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 July 2011 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 <--- 3rd report. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 <-- Fill Google's mid-term evaluation, no report 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 <-- 4th report (also DebConf) 31 August 2011 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 <-- Extra week and 5th, and final, student report. 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 <-- Fill Google's Final evaluation 28 29 30 31 Reports should be send the Friday of the pointed weeks with a deadline of the following Monday. For example, the first report should be send between Friday 2 June and Monday 6 June. About the hour, as long as it is 2 June somewhere it will do it ;) Please, be verbose in the reports. Tell us what you did, what you tried to do, how you failed in what you tried, and what your plans for the future are. If you have any questions, please ask here or in IRC #debian-soc at irc.oftc.net Ana [1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/soc-coordination _______________________________________________ Soc-coordination mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/soc-coordination
