Hi, Those interested must have found out already that our application as a GSoC mentoring application was not accepted.
I think we did a good job preparing an application, especially thanks to Dan Drake, Peter Jeremy, Jason Grout, Harald Schilly, David Kirkby and Minh Nguyen (please correct me if I missed anyone who helped with the ideas list). We should take care not to lose the time spent on this process. Hopefully we can be more organized next year and get our application accepted. Even in the preparation process, the GSoC ideas page generated a lot of interest. It made the libGAP effort more popular and brought proposals from new comers to implement completely new functionality which could be useful to a wide audience. Also keeping in mind Jason's suggestion to reconcile the different ideas list, I have a few suggestions to provide a better starting point for people who want help out, but don't know where to start. - replace the "GSoC 2010" link on the front page of the web site with a "Help Wanted" or "Get Involved!" link. The "development" section of the site (which should also be revised) is not enough for this. - move the "mature" ideas to trac and use keywords to tag them. This way in order to provide a list of possible projects, we can just link to a certain trac query. We need to take care to update the description of the tickets with some newbie friendly text and provide a contact person and a list of required skills. For the GSoC application next year, I'd like to be able to tag some ticket with "gsoc" and put a link to trac for the ideas list. - agree on a tag to indicate "easy" tickets. This would still be sorted by component, since the skills depends heavily on the component. This would help new people find their way through the hundreds of open tickets on trac. I am willing to do to some of the documentation/wiki editing necessary to set this up. Comments? Burcin -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
