[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Google Summer of Code 2010
From: |
Richard Frith-Macdonald |
Subject: |
Re: Google Summer of Code 2010 |
Date: |
Wed, 3 Mar 2010 05:30:26 +0000 |
On 2 Mar 2010, at 21:03, Fred Kiefer wrote:
> That was quite an interesting discussion. I asked whether we should
> participate in GSoC this year in any form and didn't get any reply apart
> from Yavor's (Who repeated my own proposal).
Sorry for not replying last week ... I spent the week doing slow,methodical
stuff which didn't need much thinking ... because I was/am ill (getting better
now after having seen a doctor who said it was a treatable bacterial infection
of the sinuses rather than an untreatable virus).
I think GSoC is probably a good idea, and I guess I could mentor for it, but I
doubt that I'd be very good at mentoring. People have talked about having to
chase students and try to get them to do the work, and I'm just never able to
do that sort of thing effectively.
The potential benefits if we get a good student able to devote real time to a
particularly hard problem have got to make doing this worthwhile though.