Re: GSoC application deadline passed

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:23:26AM +0100, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> El Tuesday, 18 de March de 2008 15:46:25 olafBuddenhagen@gmx.net
> escribió:

> > Nice to hear that someone gets interested in the Hurd this way :-)
> 
> How else do people come here? 

Well, there are many routes :-)

I believe the biggest group -- though by far not the only one -- are
those who were browsing GNU website etc., because they support the
ideals of the GNU movement.

> > Pretty nice description of the ideas behind the Hurd :-)
> 
> :-)
> 
> Maybe I should put it up somewhere. 

Sure -- can't hurt to have more texts about the Hurd out there :-)

> > But do we *want* to preserve that terrible state?...
> 
> I don't, but I'm no coder. 
> 
> If the people who do most of the coding don't want to do Hurd-only
> releases, then it may be necessary to just say "OK, you're doing work
> noone else here could, and if you don't want releases of the hurd
> itself, so be it."

Well, when I said "influential people", I didn't necessarily mean those
who are doing most of the coding nowadays... Things are a bit more
complicated around here ;-)

> With this, the Hurd would also have release notes again at last, so
> *I* could see, what changed (instead of trying to understand it from
> commit messages). :-)

Too bad -- I hoped you would *write* the notes... ;-)

> > No, the draft isn't linked. I had to paste it directly into the
> > application form. We can change the draft as much as we like (for
> > next year perhaps...), but I don't think we can still influence the
> > version that the students will see...
> > 
> > Well, maybe I can still edit it as organisation administrator. Let's
> > see.
> 
> Just take a look at the mentoring organizations... 
> 
> http://code.google.com/soc/2008/hurd/about.html
> 
> The link to the ideas goes directly to the wiki page, so the students
> see the most recent version. 

Yeah, the ideas page is actually linked. The student application
template (and the organisation description) however need to be entered
into a form.

It turns out though that as administrator, I can indeed edit them. So if
improvements are made to these in the wiki, I will copy them over.

-antrik-