On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 11:13:19PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > Google's announcement about 2014 is very interesting, it appears they > are starting much earlier than this year. > > The calendar suggests they will only confirm organisations around > March/April though
Aye. We can only apply in Feb+ > In my experience, we had the most intense interest from students after > Debian was confirmed as an organisation. It could be one of two things: > > a) the students are discovering Debian when they see us in a list on > Google's web site > > b) the students are not certain about investing time/effort with > organisations before the organisations have some official involvement Aye. > What do other people think? I think it's good! > Is the Google announcement sufficient for > Debian to start engaging with potential mentors and students and > encouraging them to make very basic steps to research project areas? Yeah, I think talking with *mentors* should be fine. We musn't engage with students with the impression we are a GSoC 14 org only until (and if) we get accepted. Cheers, T -- .''`. Paul Tagliamonte <[email protected]> : :' : Proud Debian Developer `. `'` 4096R / 8F04 9AD8 2C92 066C 7352 D28A 7B58 5B30 807C 2A87 `- http://people.debian.org/~paultag
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