[Gsoc] Google Summer of Code 2008

[Aroldo Souza-Leite]

Hi,

Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Hey,
>
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Aroldo Souza-Leite <asouzaleite at gmx.de> wrote:
>   
>>  Martijn Faassen wrote:
>>  > To summarize, the
>>  > sign-up period for the ZF starts next week monday already and ends
>>  > wednesday march 12 already.
>>  This weekend I'll start reading the Google SoC requirements and checking
>>  if what Philipp and I wrote last year is enough for this year,
>>  regardless of who hands in the papers to Google.
>>     
>
> Thanks! Please just focus on the initial thing to get the ZF signed up
> again, don't take too much
> hay on your fork as we say in Dutch. :)
>
>   
I'll start tomorrow, do a bit everyday and send a report to this list on 
Sunday evening telling you what I think might be missing for the SoC 
registration next week.
> On the student end we should do some evangalization (blog entries,
> etc) to attract them to our project and write
> nice proposals. We should collaborate again on this list and a wiki.
>
> This year I want to be sure we really have all students signed up on
> this list. I think this list was underutilized this week.
>
> I think the most important thing for us is to write a bunch of mentor
> guidelines. The mentors can then pass along the necessary bit to the
> students. The students should also have an official contact person
> appointed by the ZF who they can contact if there's any problem (maybe
> mentor fell off the internet, say), and some indication of what we
> expect mentors and students to do.
>
> One important thing for both the mentors and the students to do is to
> post regular updates to this mailing list. I think we want to require
> some blog entries as well.
>
> I think we should also organize three general IRC meetings: at the
> start of the project, in the middle, and near the end.
>
> Finally I think we should require the mentors and students to have
> intensive contact, voice or irc, once a week, for an hour or so.
>
> That's my brain dump about how to go about organizing this better.
>
>   

+1

Cheers,

Aroldo.