Hi all, Please register a JIRA issue and tag it with GSOC 2015 to ensure that the comdev group and the ASF coordinators are aware of your intention goal. Otherwise it might get unnoticed.
Best regards, Pierre Smits *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* Services & Solutions for Cloud- Based Manufacturing, Professional Services and Retail & Trade http://www.orrtiz.com On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 5:39 PM, Emmanuel Lécharny <elecha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Le 26/01/15 10:00, Kiran Ayyagari a écrit : > > On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 4:56 PM, Zheng, Kai <kai.zh...@intel.com> wrote: > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> > >> > >> Do we have any experience doing this? In my view we should have a try, > as > >> a whole of ApacheDS project instead of sub-project each so that any > >> mentored contributors can be ready to work on any part of the whole. > >> > >> > >> > > Pierre-Arnaud and Stefan did this few years back > > Please remember that it's quite demanding. You have to follow the on > going work, for an extended period of time (3 months if I recal it > correctly). > > It's not about the money, it's all about the good each party would get > from it : potential new committers - although no one of the student whe > had remained active so far (shit happens) -, and learning a different > way to code. > > Now, Google incentive (5500$ for the student, 500$ for the ASF per > student) is a high pile of cash for many countries, and even in western > countries like France, a student don't get such money to work on a > project during its internship, and it may be the reason many students > are willing to work on such a project. > > I'd like to stress out two things : > - first, we don't give a shit about the money, we are focused on growing > the community. Students who just are interested in the 5500$, just > please go away. > - Second, don't think for ONE SECOND that it's pure kindness from > Google. They are conducting this program in order to find good > programmers they can hire later. > > All that being said, I see no problem for a motivated student, who > really want to be part of our effort, to join us. We will not be kind, > you have to work hard and get things done. At one occasion, we had to > dismiss one student which work quality was too low. Be warned, we are > grumpy coders... But we also are kind persons ! > > > >
