Hello everyone, I'd like to briefly outline this year's guidelines for our program. I'm really quite excited about this year's projects, and I'm sure we are all looking forward to see where they go.
In previous years, communication has been a pretty big sticking point, both for mentors and students alike. Last year, we requested that students provide weekly status updates, either in a blog, to the list, or somewhere else that is documented and publically accessible. This year, we are changing that somewhat: we would still like to have weekly status updates, but we are requesting that these be sent to the plan9-gsoc@googlegroups.com mailing list. Status reports are not strictly mandatory per program guidelines, but keeping everyone informed of the status of your project is not only a good way to keep yourself in check, but also so that there is a place available that clearly documents your progress. It's sometimes quite fun to read up on those sorts of things later. It also helps us as an organization to see where students are and to see if we can offer you any help as needed. For code, we are suggesting one of two things: 1) Create an account on Google Code (http://code.google.com) and use the publically available repositories there. They give you a choice between Mercurial and Subversion. 2) Get an account on sources (emailing perhaps Sape or Geoff -- let us know if you need assistance with contacting someone who can do this for you) and keep your code there. Take a moment to discuss with your mentor where you think your code should live. When you've made a decision, please inform Anthony and / or I so we can make that information public as well. During the community bonding period (the upcoming month), please take time to get to know your mentor (and mentors, please take time to get to know your student). Your mentor may provide you with a practice project, relevant documents to read, or perhaps spark some discussion on some of the weaker points of your proposal. Please do get all the timeline bits hammered out for what you'll be doing over the summer so that we can fairly grade project progress during the midterms. Work on your project begins on May 24th, so there's plenty of time for you to get acquainted! Looking forward to a wonderful and productive Summer of Code this year. Congratulations again, and have fun! --Devon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Plan 9 Google Summer of Code" group. To post to this group, send email to plan9-g...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to plan9-gsoc+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/plan9-gsoc?hl=en.
