-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am 10.02.2011 21:56, schrieb Nils Kneuper: > 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.
Submissions are open since Monday and will stay open till next Friday. This is basically a reminder of what needs to be done before stuff can be submitted. > 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. Is the ideas list [1] already done? At least far enough that I can submit to google? I know that at least Mordante and Boucman already had a rough look, but are there "enough" ideas already? Are some of the ideas we had for last year still usable? I think that the list currently really sucks and that we have *no* chance to be accepted with the list in this sad state. Yeah, submissions are open and I'd prefer to do so over the weekend, deadline is next Friday and I don't plan to cut it close, but won't submit unless we got at least "some" ideas that are reasonably well done... > 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. So far at least Boucman and Mordante clearly stated that they want to mentor, some others said something along the lines of "yeah, I could mentor..." during FOSDEM. > 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'll have a look at gathering the latest questions that google requires to be answered [2] some time tomorrow. Regarding projects that we want to support: * Is there a list of proposals somewhere? * So far 'eoc' joined #wesnoth-dev and asked for our support for "unknown horizons", a strategy game somehow similar to the "Anno" series (rather well known in Germany, probably not as known outside since it has no shooter elements ;) ). > 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. Yeah, I think there are not many easy coding tasks [3] available at the moment. Do any of those tasks come to your mind and does the list only consist of open tasks at 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk1xZzQACgkQfFda9thizwUPmwCfbcWjAfUhIm7MT4NTMU+05uA0 NW8AmwUj4/NWvLCsgujFIkeRP0fSQbTb =qykJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Wesnoth-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev
