[Gsoc] Google Summer of Code 2008

[Baiju M]

----- "Martijn Faassen" <faassen at startifact.com> wrote:
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> 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

Regards,
Baiju M