the FFMpeg project was very successful with it's qualification tasks http://guru.multimedia.cx/googles-summer-of-code-2007/
regards, mark On Nov 23, 2007 6:30 AM, Jesse Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 22, 2007 10:00 AM, Kai Blin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 22 November 2007 17:44:09 Jesse Allen wrote: > > > > > From my understanding, the SoC site specifically says that you do not > > > have to work on a project that has to be completed in the allotted > > > time. I think the idea is that google wants to encourage people that > > > were already working on a project before to apply and to encourage > > > people to continue working in the community after the session is > > > complete. Now the mentoring organization could set their own > > > requirements, based on difficulty and scope, but I would be concerned > > > with making time a limiting factor. > > > > I'm not saying that we stop people from working on their stuff > afterwards, nor > > forcing them to e.g. implement the full dll if their project is "Start > an > > implementation of dll x". I was talking about shrinking their proposal > so > > they can actually manage to implement all the features they promise in > their > > proposal in the proposed timeframe. I know that this was really hard for > me. > > > > > The best alternative to the quiz would be to have the student begin > > > working on the project before the application. He can discuss it on > > > the the mailing list and hopefully show some code. This would be a > > > good way to judge coding skill and the project's scope. Now in order > > > for this to work well, we would have to encourage people to get > > > started early, which really hasn't happened before right? > > > > Well, depends on how you want to do this. I think this is overly > restrictive, > > unless you're just talking about a patch or two like Maarten proposed. > > > > > Well then it sounds like we want better written proposals. Yeah the > goals for my project were very broad. I didn't intentionally do it > that way, but it was more like at first, get it to work, sort of > thing. And the design wasn't complete until a month in. The only way I > could have done better was to have started earlier. Mind you, I > actually did start in April almost two months early. If I get to do it > again, I will probably have a much more interesting proposal and have > goals that I will know will have specific results in the timeframe. > This is what I'm already considering, but that is because I am > experienced in the program already. For new people, we will have to > reach out to them and help them get ready early because they won't > know what to do. Maybe we need pre-SoC mentors? > > Jesse > > >