I second what mordante said... the proposal period is a very important period in the GSoC process, and it makes sense to try to have one for the summer of art.
would we have a limited area (portrait, terrain, units) or leave it completely open to students ? On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Mark de Wever <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 01:58:31PM -0700, Noy wrote: >> Greetings >> >> Over the past few weeks a proposal has been raised for the creation of >> a Wesnoth GSOC-like art scholarship. I've spoken to several developers >> including Dave, Jetryl and Ivanovic on this topic, and this email is >> really an compilation of those discussions. > > I also discussed it with Noy and already told him I'm also in favour to > try this. The motivation to do this is like one of the motivations > behind the GSoC project; allow students to work on their project in the > summer instead of doing a dull summer job, which doesn't learn them a > thing but only provides them with money. > >> This transfers some of the onus from the student to the mentor, as >> the latter would need to identify the development path of the >> student. I submit that a prospective student would identify some >> areas where he or she would like to improve, to which the mentor >> would design a program around. > > IMO the student should not only identify a development path, but also > come up with a proposal. This proposal can then be discussed with the > mentor(s) and turned into a final proposal. > > -- > Regards, > Mark de Wever aka Mordante/SkeletonCrew > > _______________________________________________ > Wesnoth-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev > _______________________________________________ Wesnoth-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev
