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Re: [Monotone-devel] Summer of Code 2007
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Derek Scherger |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] Summer of Code 2007 |
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Tue, 06 Mar 2007 20:50:20 -0700 |
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Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> In particular:
> -- Is anyone up to being backup administrator (in case I get eaten
> by a grue)?
Possibly, what's involved?
>
> -- Who is willing to be a mentor? This basically means helping read
> student apps and potentially being a main point of contact for a
> student. (It also means you can't apply as a student.)
You can throw my name into the hat for this one.
> -- We need a list of project ideas for students to apply under.
> (FWIW, my feeling at this point is that these should _not_
> necessarily be giant, solution-to-everything projects, but more
> the sort of thing that we might expect to complete in a week or
> two of solid hacking.) I created a totally stub page on the
> wiki:
> http://venge.net/mtn-wiki/SummerOfCode2007
> This is the biggest thing to work on.
I threw a few more ideas up there... the svn importer was also one I had
been thinking of.
>
> -- We should perhaps think about explicit questions to ask
> applicants when they are applying -- to avoid the problem where
> it is just impossible to tell from their app whether they are
> clueful or not.
Yeah, agreed. We should also try a bit harder to make sure that we
interact with students more frequently, in the hopes that we don't lose
anyone this year.
Cheers,
Derek