If there are students on these liss considering applying for the Google SoC 2008, Christoph Haas has ideas[1] for an enhanced mentors.debian.net site. [1] http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2008/debexpo I suppose Christoph is a bit late in proposing this, 31st March is the last date for student applications, but we try ... :) Cheers, Giridhar ----- Forwarded message from Christoph Haas <email@christoph-haas.de> ----- From: Christoph Haas <email@christoph-haas.de> To: mentors-ops@workaround.org Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:38:39 +0100 Subject: Re: [mentors-ops] New mentors site as a Google SoC 2008 Debian project? User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.1.4 Giridhar, On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 04:54:29PM +0530, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote: > On 08/03/26 10:00 +0100, Christoph Haas said ... > > On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 09:06:46PM +0530, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote: > > > Would it make sense to propose development of the new mentors site > > > (significant parts of it, if not all of it) as one of the projects for > > > Google SoC for Debian? > > > > Honestly I have no experience with the SoC and how it's handled in > > reality. I have already collected the bits, pieces and suggestions and > > glued together in a half-sane documentation that might help to develop > > the basic application. So if we follow that concept then it will > > probably be boring like hell for a SoC student to understand that and > > This sort of a thing is OK for the SoC. See the netconf [1] proposal > for example. > > [1] http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2008/netconf > > > start to code. IMHO the SoC is about people developing their own > > concepts. But feel free to correct me. I'm an englishman in NY here. > > Not really. Students can propose their own projects and concepts, but > it is necessary that the project falls within the scope of a mentoring > organization and there should be a mentor for the project. The Debian > SoC 2008 wiki page [2] has links to whatever you should know and more. > > [2] http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2008 Alright, I've spent a while with the SoC concept. So I proposed the project here: http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2008/debexpo Let's see what happens. :) Kindly Christoph -- email@christoph-haas.de www.workaround.org JID: chrish@jabber.workaround.org gpg key: 79CC6586 fingerprint: 9B26F48E6F2B0A3F7E33E6B7095E77C579CC6586 _______________________________________________ mentors-ops mailing list mentors-ops@workaround.org http://workaround.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mentors-ops ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Y Giridhar Appaji Nag | http://www.appaji.net/
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