We should never forget them. Good job folks. Sharon On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Alex Levenson <[email protected]>wrote:
> Don't forget community mentors! > > > On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Sharon Lally <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> SJ, it sounds like a good plan....but OLPC/1CC had problems retaining >> mentors last year, so make sure not to over-commit. The remaining OLPC >> staff may not have time to mentor. >> Sharon >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Samuel Klein <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I'm copying our own gsoc list, and glad to clarify how this should work. >>> >>> I mentioned to Leslie yesterday that I expected SugarLabs and OLPC >>> might have separate GSOC projects this year. Someone representing SL >>> should write and formally get on their list of supported >>> organizations. [note: this requires tax/ID information for SL] >>> >>> OLPC is interested in participating in GSOC this year... some of the >>> projects I imagine would be activities or software for creation that >>> would work particularly with the XO's hardware, or would help needs in >>> OLPC deployments. >>> >>> It would be alright for both SugarLabs and OLPC to have people working >>> on code that could be integrated into Sugar (note the different >>> activity-development and python coding that was done both as an OLPC >>> SoC project and via other orgs who wanted their projects to be useful >>> to OLPC as an audience). It is also possible to submit an application >>> to more than one organization. >>> >>> I recommend noting in our organization descriptions (and definition of >>> what we are looking for) that people who want to develop tools and >>> features for Sugar should apply to SL, and people who want to develop >>> things specifically for OLPC deployments, or other software puzzles >>> specific to XOs, should apply to OLPC. >>> >>> I would encourage most activity developers and activity mentors to >>> tackle SoC projects under sugarlabs... >>> >>> SJ >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Ed McNierney <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > Yes, but in 2007 "they" were "us", no? >>> > >>> > Thanks, this is helpful information (I didn't know the status of >>> > OLPC's previous GSoC work). I don't see why there is any reason to >>> > presume that OLPC would NOT be interested in 2009 GSoC, but I don't >>> > know of any active ideas/proposals kicking around here. I would >>> > strongly encourage Sugar Labs ideas, however - to Ben's point, there >>> > should be no confusion. The only things I could imagine (and it's >>> > just imagining) coming from OLPC would be ancillary ideas (school >>> > server add-ons?) that would be quite distinct from XO/Sugar software. >>> > Go for it! >>> > >>> > - Ed >>> > >>> > >>> > On Jan 8, 2009, at 3:54 PM, Wade Brainerd wrote: >>> > >>> >> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <[email protected]> >>> >> wrote: >>> >>> We should take into account that organizations are assigned slots >>> >>> based on their well behaviour in past editions. >>> >> >>> >> To be clear, OLPC was put on GSoC 'probation' last year due to their >>> >> poor performance reporting on students' work in 2007. They only >>> >> received 4 slots despite hundreds of applications. >>> >> >>> >> Wade >>> >> _______________________________________________ >>> >> Sugar-devel mailing list >>> >> [email protected] >>> >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > Sugar-devel mailing list >>> > [email protected] >>> > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Gsoc mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/gsoc >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Sharon Lally >> Director, Human Resources >> One Laptop Per Child >> 617.452.5680 >> [email protected] >> www.laptop.org >> >> >> Give a Laptop. Get a Laptop. Change the world! Visit >> http://www.laptop.org/en/ for more information. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gsoc mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/gsoc >> >> > -- Sharon Lally Director, Human Resources One Laptop Per Child 617.452.5680 [email protected] www.laptop.org Give a Laptop. Get a Laptop. Change the world! Visit http://www.laptop.org/en/ for more information.
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