Re: our Devroom - what do we want to do there - call for papers

[David Chisnall]

On 13 Jan 2009, at 03:14, Adam Fedor wrote:

> We had three.  One dropped out before the start even, I think due to  
> family problems.

This one looked very promising at the start, but unfortunately someone  
else thought so too and he was offered an internship that looked more  
appealing than spending the summer working on GNUstep.

> One basically did not submit code that was anywhere near done.   
> Basically just a skeleton.

This was mine.  Two things to take away from this:

1) Due to the way the SoC is set up, we should favour students in the  
USA.  I don't really like this, but the dates are fixed according to  
US term dates - there is no flexibility and most other countries have  
quite different summer holiday times.  This student should probably  
have failed in the middle, but I passed him because his term dates  
meant that he had to start several weeks late.

2) Make absolutely sure the student has no outside commitments.  Mine  
had an internship that was meant to have finished but kept calling him  
back.

Unfortunately, GNUstep did not really have enough applicants to be  
able to turn away any that looked even vaguely promising.  I don't  
know how we can go about raising the profile of the projects this year  
so that we will get more applicants.

David