I'm willing to mentor, too. Nils Kneuper wrote: > Hi everybody! > As you might all know we participated in Google Summer of Code in the > last two > years. The time to submit our application for this year, in case we > want to > participate again and have the resources to do so, starts soon. Have a > look at > the timeline [1] for all dates taht matter for GSoC. Basically we have > to submit > our application between March 8th and March 12th. If we don't, there is no > chance that we can participate. > > Before sending in an application I do want to make sure that we have > enough > possible mentors as well as possible projects. Here is a short list of > things > that should be done *really* soon: > > 1) Everyone willing to mentor should explicitly ping me either in IRC > or by > replying to this mail. Currently I fear that we don't have enough possible > mentors to really participate in GSoC. From what I know atm there are > about two > people who say "yes, I want to mentor and I got the time to do so" which I > personally think is not enough to warrant participating in GSoC. Since > we could > only seriously consider two projects and if one of the two mentor can > not mentor > for some time due to whatever reason we have a serious problem! > > 1)b) If you don't think that you have the time to mentor, do you think > you might > have the time to work as backup mentor or help in some other way that > directly > is part of GSoC? I remember that someone in May last year eg noy > proposed that > he could help as Co Admin. Any help is welcome and required! > > 2) The list of possible projects [2] has to be updated. It is still at > the state > of 2009. We should list some new possible projects, remove projects > that are > done and remove projects that we think are likely not to work (eg the > probs we > had in the last two time of GSoC where as a final result the stats > project was > basically a failure, since there is nothing in use right now and noone > left > feeling responsible for this area). So if you got some good idea, > discuss it in > #wesnoth-dev and enlist it in the wiki. > > 3) The information that we have to send in to google [3] needs a > significant > overhaul. We should not send in exactly the same stuff with just some > numbers > changed. I think we should especially put some time into the questions > for the > students and finetune that part since there are probably irrelevant > questions in > there as well as some missing things. > > I think all of the questions and tasks above should be handled really > soon. > Personally I'd love to participate again in GSoC since over the > previous years > we got one "long term contributer" as result as well as several > significant > progress on areas that had not enough attention before. So please > reply to this > mail and update all pages in the wiki that you can find. Since we are > currently > in feature freeze and thus many of you don't have too much to do since > there are > no known bugs in your areas, you might want to invest the time in > updating the > wiki pages. Yes, I still hope to have 1.8 out really soon, it > basically depends > on the lobby atm... > > Cheers, > Nils Kneuper aka Ivanovic > > > > [1] > http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2010/faqs#timeline > [2] http://wiki.wesnoth.org/SummerOfCodeIdeas > [3] http://wiki.wesnoth.org/SoC_Information_for_Google
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