-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi everybody! As was decided during WESDEM over the last weekend we want to participate again in GSOC this year. This basically means that we got some tasks to do: 1) Create a nice idea list. 2) Find mentors for possible areas/projects. 3) Gather the required info for google.
re '1': timotei already prepared the ideas list and cleaned up last years [1]. We do have to (re) add the pages that are still valid and also have to add new ideas. Please keep in mind that we also have to slightly change the focus since we want to put more of an focus onto directly creating "complete" documentation for the work done and instead tune down the amount of pure coding required. Please do also keep in mind that we came to the conclusion that our projects so far were likely "too large", so try to make sure that the ideas are not larger than what we had so far. re '2': Volunteers welcome! If you think you have the time to mentor a student, please step up possibly also stating which ideas/areas you are most willing to mentor, though we have eg seen with the sample boucman gave that "something completely different" can work nicely, too. re '3': So far we have been able to basically reuse the same info every year. For this we were using the stuff listed at [2]. We have to make sure that this list is up to date as well as "complete". The latter part is especially important, since it sounds like this year the list of questions asked might be changed/extended. Carol (the head of GSOC over at google) sent a mail to the mentor mailing list stating that they want to see more unknown orgs that might go under the radar otherwise participate. So if you know some org that you think could be a possible candidate, please talk to them. In the forms we can recommend smaller orgs that we think should get a chance, too, and the smaller orgs can list us as reference, too. If you can recommend some org to participate please tell them to list us as reference (but also make sure to tell the rest about it). I don't know yet how much of the stuff I can work on myself and if I'll be too much of a help with things because of this strange thing called real life. So I am thankful for anyone working on getting things done. Registration for GSOC as project opens at Febuary 28th and lasts till March 11th So until that time we got to have the basic stuff together. Please do also make sure to gather easy coding tasks [3] and possibly some not so easy coding tasks [4] so that students find some things to get started with. That's it for the moment. Cheers, Nils Kneuper aka Ivanovic [1]http://wiki.wesnoth.org/SummerOfCodeIdeas [2]http://wiki.wesnoth.org/SoC_Information_for_Google [3]http://wiki.wesnoth.org/EasyCoding [4]http://wiki.wesnoth.org/NotSoEasyCoding -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk1UUOkACgkQfFda9thizwWefQCeMFLnPw8h1AsZrFrhVqUHnot5 PxMAoJuKFPI2rnflDP9H8QwbNv6Hdh+D =1iQ+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Wesnoth-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev
