Jim wrote: <snip> But if writing some sort of documentation (or article, or whatever) could be *part* of a coding project, then I think we'd be more than happy to get involved and help. </snip>
Ditto from the docs community, we'd like to help other students to learn from the work that happens this summer by documenting it in the student and instructor guides that serve the great edu community. I've added my other ideas to the wiki also, just in case. -Michelle >X-Original-To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org >Delivered-To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org >Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:41:57 -0700 >From: Jim Grisanzio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Google Summer of Code: Call for OpenSolaris Participation >To: Peter Tribble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >MIME-version: 1.0 >Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT >X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, ja >User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050925 >Cc: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org >X-BeenThere: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org >X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 >List-Id: General OpenSolaris Discussion List <opensolaris-discuss.opensolaris.org> >List-Unsubscribe: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-discuss>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] e> >List-Archive: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss> >List-Post: <mailto:opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org> >List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >List-Subscribe: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-discuss>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Peter Tribble wrote: >> On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 19:34, Jim Grisanzio wrote: >> >>>Ben opened a page on the Genunix wiki: >>>http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/Summer_of_Code >> >> >> I accidentally went to www.genuix.org. Hm..... >> >> A couple of points: >> >> I'm not sure that content or marketing count. Or localization/i18n. >> Google explicitly rule out documentation projects, at any rate. It's >> all about actually writing code. > >I see that, thanks Peter. They say: > >"While we greatly appreciate the value of documentation, this program is >an exercise in developing code; we can't accept proposals for >documentation-only work at this time." > >So, if that's the case, fine. But if writing some sort of documentation >(or article, or whatever) could be *part* of a coding project, then I >think we'd be more than happy to get involved and help. I'm just trying >to get a wide diversity of projects offered. > >Also, regarding marketing. Yes, I agree. I think Tim sees that too and >he addresses it here: >http://opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=33341&tstart=0 >He's suggesting creating module here so perhaps that would qualify. >Again, just flushing out some ideas. > >I see that Chandan has put up some stuff for OpenGrok and there's some >tools and performance ideas up there now too. I put Tom's Chime content >up there as well. > >Thanks, > >Jim > >> I agree with Tom about the value of extending something like Chime. >> (Or even doing jkstat properly.) Generally, graphical interfaces to >> observability tools are an area where relatively little work has been >> done. Not only that, the work is reasonably self-contained and would >> make nice projects with a good chance of completion that could add >> considerable value. >> >_______________________________________________ >opensolaris-discuss mailing list >opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
