Re: FVWM: Google Summer of Code 2011
--- On Wed, 3/9/11, Thomas Funk t.f...@web.de wrote: From: Thomas Funk t.f...@web.de Subject: Re: FVWM: Google Summer of Code 2011 To: f...@fvwm.org, fvwm-workers@fvwm.org Date: Wednesday, March 9, 2011, 10:34 AM On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 07:27:31PM +, Thomas Adam wrote: Hi all, Last year I was unsuccessful in applying for the GSoC deadline. This year, I might improve upon that, assuming there's interest from folks here. The deadline for submissions is Friday 11th March, so I would need to know by end of tomorrow at the absolute latest so I can have time to prepare something. But given the response so far, maybe it's just the wrong time for FVWM to be considering this. So until next year... ... and, perhaps earlier if possible. So that projects could be discuss and people can check if they have time. That would be great. yes - i think prior warning is a very important thing here. what happened this year, precisely? is there anything we can learn for next year? why was this so late? - JT
Re: FVWM: Google Summer of Code 2011
2011/3/9 Thomas Adam tho...@fvwm.org: On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 07:27:31PM +, Thomas Adam wrote: Hi all, Last year I was unsuccessful in applying for the GSoC deadline. This year, I might improve upon that, assuming there's interest from folks here. The deadline for submissions is Friday 11th March, so I would need to know by end of tomorrow at the absolute latest so I can have time to prepare something. But given the response so far, maybe it's just the wrong time for FVWM to be considering this. I hope to get back into workng actively on fvwm, but I don't want tocomitt as a mentor before I know that I have the time. Maybe next year. /Viktor
Re: FVWM: Google Summer of Code 2011
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 10:25:41AM +0100, Hans Voss wrote: On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 20:27, Thomas Adam tho...@fvwm.org wrote: Hi all, Last year I was unsuccessful in applying for the GSoC deadline. This year, I might improve upon that, assuming there's interest from folks here. As per last year, the usual GSoC guidelines are quite clear: http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2011/faqs#mentor_apply I am willing to act as the complete go-between and do all of the work -- but yet again there's the issue of a second mentor should I pop my clogs or something, so I don't think this is even feasible unless someone else is brave enough to act in that role, albeit likely redundant. Thomas, can you give a brief description of what your understudy needs to know (level of in-depth knowlegde of fvwm and other skills), besides being a good enough mentor to somebody? Understudy's the wrong word. Like any student, a mentor would need some knowledge of the following: * C * XLib C is the more important one. Knowledge of XLib is desirable but likely not going to happen as it's pretty arcane by most people's standards. -- Thomas Adam -- Deep in my heart I wish I was wrong. But deep in my heart I know I am not. -- Morrissey (Girl Least Likely To -- off of Viva Hate.)
