On Thursday 28 February 2008 13:42, Florent Daigni?re wrote: > * Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> [2008-02-28 12:24:12]: > > > Nextgens wants to be a student this year. I've been approached by somebody > > wanting to work on searching (jai_menon). > > It depends on what I will be doing this summer in fact :) I'm currently > looking for an internship and taking part into gSoC depends on whether I'll > already be working or not... Shall FPI be selected again as a mentoring > organization for gSoC 2008 of course ;)
It is likely that we will be accepted if we apply. > > > Should we do GSoC this year? IMHO we can do better than last year, at least we > > can operate more efficiently (perhaps with less students) than last year. > > Well even though the produced code wasn't up to our expectations it was > good for the project on overall. Some of last year students are > still around: > - kryptos gave a talk at FOSS.IN > - sback told me he would try to write some additional regression > tests using some automated tools he is working on > - Mc2 is still hanging on irc and produced some work after his > SoC ended > - vivee was producing some interesting simulations but has now > disappeared. > > Okay, others disappeared straight after their SoCs but we can't expect > every student to stay, can we ? It's important to determine competence early on, the student matters more than the proposal. That's one key lesson I'd take from last year. > > NextGen$ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20080228/8b472b78/attachment.pgp>
