My experiences with GSoC were not all that positive. Therefore, I'm not offering to be a GSoC mentor anymore. Well, maybe I should not have taken two students at once but still, if the student isn't focused enough, all the mentoring doesn't help.
I do have an interest in building this PDFBox GUI. I could have used a good tool for various PDF-related tasks many times. But I don't think I can invest enough time to take up a lead position here. I'm happy to invest some time for the design discussion and help with some coding. On 29.01.2010 13:07:18 Jukka Zitting wrote: > Hi, > > 2010/1/28 <a...@swmc.com>: > > I like the idea. The question is... are there are enough people willing > > to dedicate the time to code this? > > I guess the original proposal was to start this effort as a Google > Summer of Code (GSoC) project during next summer. That would give us a > dedicated student working on the code, but we'd need to have someone > from the PDFBox team who's ready to invest enough time and effort in > mentoring the student through the summer. > > I've been a GSoC mentor a few times before, and it's quite rewarding > especially if you have a motivated and skilled student to work with. > However, effective mentoring does require consistent effort through > the summer (I estimate some 2 hours per week) and unfortunately at > least I can't promise to have enough extra cycles for that this year. > > BR, > > Jukka Zitting Jeremias Maerki
