-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I just had a look at those documents. Thanks For posting these, some more comments below the specific sections
Christopher Sean Morrison schrieb: | On that note, there are some quick introductory materials that we put | together that I thought might be of interest. One is a brief 6-page | presentation that provides a brief high-level overview for folks that | don't know what the program is about: | | http://my.bzflag.org/gsoc/GSoC2007_Overview.pdf | (warning: 5MB PDF) This document is really nice since it does also give some nice overview of the general procedure. Really nice to see how it does work. But how is the number of slots assigned? Do we have to say a number of max-slots that we can host, or how does this happen? | The second is a much more detailed 10-page article that talks about how | we (BZFlag) got involved, how we ran our program, the results of our | student projects, and some lessons learned: | | http://my.bzflag.org/gsoc/bzflag_gsoc2007_post_mortem.pdf | (warning: 15MB PDF) Yes, this is *very* helpful, indeed. Shows some things that we really should take care about, especially in respect of the various personalities and that some need more "monitoring" and encouraging than others. One question in this regard: How have you manage to select the people? That is, have they submitted some code, too, or was it just some plain CV including their interests and stuff? | If you do apply, some tips: | -- it takes a *lot* of time and will likely derail your release | schedule if you're giving the students the attention they deserve/require. Okay, we will try to take care of. This is why I personally don't think that we can manage more than two or three students. | -- one of the main intentions of the program is to attract new | developers to your project, not just get some project or task done. Yes, getting someone new to work on the project would with us would be really helpful, especially since our main ideas are in areas where we can really need some extra support. | -- don't ask for or expect too many students as a first-year | participant; we had four slots and a 3:1 mentor-to-student ratio and it | still took almost all of our resources. cf. above. Personally I'd say two slots would be perfect, maybe three would be possible, more definitively not. | -- you have to demonstrate a capacity to show *impact*; how many people | and how will people be affected by Wesnoth participating; why should | google (or anyone else) care. Okay, will try to point out why they should explicitly chose Wesnoth. | -- last year, Google received about 500 organization applications and | could only accept about 130; you have to put in production-quality | effort to stand out. I think regarding production quality and efford we are already one of the exceptional projects out there, we will just have to show this, too. | -- it takes a *lot* of time ... (did I mention that?) but it's worth it. I hope that we will not underestimate the work associated to it. | In any regard, hope to see you guys apply and get accepted. We sort of | opened the door for games last year as BZFlag was the first game to get | accepted and we run a pretty successful program last year (Google had | previously not allowed games). The ScummVM and Thousand Parsec gaming | frameworks also ran a successful program, so on the whole, things are | looking good for gaming. If you have any questions, feel free to hit me | up via e-mail (I'm not subscribed to this list) or via IRC (brlcad on | Freenode). I hope we will get accepted. We are currently already work on setting up a list of possible ideas. What is your experience regarding what has to be listed from a project for ideas, is the amount of information sufficient (for the first two ideas it should be rather complete already): http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas It is for sure good to have some feedback from successful participants in GSoC so that we are able to get an idea of what we are up to... Cheers, Nils Kneuper aka Ivanovic -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHxZPffFda9thizwURAiT7AJ9iB/hOfDKHx18HVnewiXemN4XfIwCfcYly 8xfj2mc27Rlx5QIKXHPeGKE= =y9N5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Wesnoth-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev
