Re: Google Summer of Code 2010

[Fred Kiefer]

Am 03.03.2010 10:25, schrieb Nicola Pero:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> I agree.  If we have mentors (and it seems we do), we should definitely
> try to take part in GSoC. :-)
> 
> Selecting good students (that don't require constant chasing) is key,
> but it is not easy.

I am willing to mentor myself, although the last experience wasn't that
convincing. f the student is motivated an the schedule of the GSoC wont
conflict to hard with the local terms then things should work out.

What we need to decide soon is whether we try a GNUstep/Etoile project
or go for the bigger GNU one. Chances are higher that the later will get
accepted, but there it might turn out harder to get a GNUstep/Etoile
project through. Still after last years rejection I would propose the
shared GNU application.

Fred