On 08 February, 2016 - Dirk Hohndel wrote: > Which leads me to the question: > > "do we want to do GSoC 2016?" > > I'm not sure. I thought the last two years were overall good experiences. > > But they have not brought us long term contributors (Gehad was the closest > we got and his last commit was from September of last year). The others > have ALL disappeared. Most of them the moment the final evaluations were > in. > > And if I chart the effort of the mentors and what they could have implemented > during the time it took them to handle the students... I'm even less > convinced > that this is a net positive. > > Finally - what would the projects be this year? Is there anything that people > have in mind that can be done by a student and that couldn't be done much > easier by one of the potential mentors? >
One project i thought of was to fix up our file based importeras for Seabear and Xdeep, to glue up our file importers with something that can act as a libdivecomptuter lookalike. Like the Uemisis thingie. That would streamline the experience for users of those devices, just being able to say "download" the new things. I had another idea to, but its currently lost on me. I'll come back if it ever re-surfaces. > OK, I guess what I wrote here reads a bit more negative than I feel. I'm open > to doing it again. But I want to get some feedback from others, ESPECIALLY > from the potential mentors (Lubomir, Robert, Anton, Miika, Tomaz, etc). > I'm full time "mentor" for my kiddo right now, so between that and renovating the house there ain't much time over for anything else. I can gladly cheer from the side line, but I can't promise to be in the game. //Anton -- Anton Lundin +46702-161604 _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list [email protected] http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
