I exactly agree with you Nikos. I think you should look at Sympy GSoC Application<https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/gsoc-2014-organization-application> They have been participating in GSoC from past 5 years or so you can find more details in the link given.
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 1:59 AM, Nikos Vasilakis <nikos.a...@gmail.com>wrote: > Thanks for reminding us Raphael, > > First, did we get any feedback last year? If we did, we should definitely > work towards this direction. > > I am not an expert in GSoC applications, but my feeling is that we have > *many* and *small* targets. Although important, most of the targets in the > "idea page" have a scope of two weeks (full-time work). My understanding > from other project's applications (e.g., MINIX) is that the focus should be > 3+ months of work (and students even start before GSoC). > > At the same time, provided that we have 2-3 such tasks, we need to show > why mentorship is *critical*. For instance, most of the proposed ideas > don't need any mentoring (provided a student is willing to code) and the > ones that need mentorship (e.g., Android idea) have a concrete plan. In > particular, I would expect to see a couple of sentences of (1) why the > mini-project the student is tackling is hard (2) how is the mentor going to > alleviate many of these with the right guidance (3) why the project is > important. For instance, what are the possible obstacles one is going to > face, and how can we guide the student to avoid these as much as possible? > We need to actually flesh out the details for whatever we are proposing! > > Obviously, no one expects us to foresee the future! What we need to show > is that we have put *considerable* effort in planning and that we will make > the most out of both the student's and the mentor's time. At the same time, > we are showing that some of these cannot be done any other way (or would > take something equivalent of a year of someone's working less than > part-time with no guidance!). As an added value, we could call out > potentially *non-obvious* benefits in the FOSS community. By succeeding > there, what do we enable? > > Just to give an example, one idea of this level would be the Time Machine > (for lack of a better name). It is a considerable effort, it *requires* > mentoring, it will benefit the whole FOSS community, it may integrate with > cloud services (e.g., Google's own servers) and it's painfully missing. Of > course, this is only an example, but there are other ideas of this level. > > Let's start working early on this! > > Nikos > > > On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Mario Daniel Ruiz Saavedra < > desideran...@rocketmail.com> wrote: > >> The ideas behind Chromecast are not new, so maybe you can extend or >> generalize that support, something like a libbroadcast >> >> Enviado desde Yahoo Mail en >> Android<https://mx.overview.mail.yahoo.com/mobile/?.src=Android> >> >> ------------------------------ >> * From: * Daniel Foré <dan...@elementaryos.org>; >> * To: * Raphael Isemann <teempe...@gmail.com>; >> * Cc: * elementary-dev-community < >> elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net>; >> * Subject: * Re: [Elementary-dev-community] GSoC (again) >> * Sent: * Tue, Feb 4, 2014 7:14:12 PM >> >> One interesting idea might be adding Chromecast support to Music, >> Photos, and Audience and/or creating a libchromecast (if such a thing >> doesn't already exist) >> Cheers, >> >> Daniel Foré >> elementaryos.org >> >> >> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Raphael Isemann <teempe...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Hi everybody, >>> >>> Google started accepting applications for GSoC today and i wanted to >>> get some feedback if there is interest in participating (in the >>> community and in the team)? >>> >>> For those we are new, we already applied last year but we weren't >>> accepted. I bring the topic up as we got a lot of media coverage since >>> the Luna-release and it's probably worth another try. >>> >>> Deadline is next Friday and i'm currently stuck in exams till this >>> friday, so don't expect a lot of input from my side in the next three >>> days. I'll be back full-time on Saturday/Sunday. >>> >>> - Raphael Isemann >>> >>> --------------------------------------------- >>> >>> Paperwork from last work: >>> * Our letter of application from last year that is currently not open >>> for everyone. 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