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<font size="-1">Hi, Valorie!<br>
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I have just edited the list of Krita ideas, now we have 8 ideas, 4
of which are low-hanging fruits with localized optimizations of
the code. I hope that will help people who do not want to learn
all half-million lines of Krita code.<br>
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Speaking truly, I think I understand why there is so little effort
from people with the ideas. Since the last year Google forbids
students to apply more than 2 times, it means that most of the
applicants will be newcomers and, most probably, they will not be
able to prepare some extensive proposal/design for a project. It
is just too difficult to prepare a good proposal for a project so
big in size. So it might be that the quality of last year
proposals discouraged people from doing this work again.<br>
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The only way how we can solve the issue is to prepare very
scope-limited tasks, such that the students would not need to
learn all the code (in our case we just added AVX optimizations,
which are limited to a scope of a couple of classes). But that is
not always possible or makes sense for the some projects.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 15.01.2018 03:39, Valorie Zimmerman
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I'm very discouraged to see so little movement on
this. After skipping GCi this past fall, are we now also
considering skipping GSoC? Or downsizing the number of students
we are mentoring?
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<div>Without Ideas we will not get students. More important, we
must complete the Org application soon, and the Ideas page is
the core of that application.</div>
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<div>This is good for your team and your project, in the long
run. It brings in new contributors and fresh ideas. </div>
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<div>If you need some guidance, please read <a
href="https://google.github.io/gsocguides/mentor/defining-a-project-ideas-list.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://google.github.io/gsocguides/mentor/defining-a-project-ideas-list.html</a></div>
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<div>I should have linked to it for the last email.</div>
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<div>Valorie</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 3:03 PM,
Valorie Zimmerman <span dir="ltr"><<a
href="mailto:valorie.zimmerman@gmail.com"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">valorie.zimmerman@gmail.com</a>></span>
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<div>Hello GSoC mentors, and teams supporting mentors,</div>
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<div>TL;DR: Fill out <a
href="https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2018/Ideas"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://community.kde.org/<wbr>GSoC/2018/Ideas</a>;
read <a href="https://community.kde.org/GSoC"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://community.kde.org/GSoC</a><wbr>.
Now.<br>
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<div>Every year, we've asked for more time to get ramped
up for GSoC, and so now is the time for organizations
to apply[1]. We have begun to write our application,
and that means that our Ideas page needs to be filled
NOW, because that is the prime consideration for the
GSoC team once the Org Applications deadline has
passed. </div>
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<div>The quality of our ideas and the guidance they give
our students are the most important part of our
application. Please begin filling in your ideas now if
you have not already, and ensure that that page is
comprehensive, accurate and attractive. Including
screenshots and other images is allowed, if it
enriches the idea for a project. *Please ensure
complete information about how to contact the team*;
this is crucial. </div>
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<div>Also, take a look at the landing page <a
href="https://community.kde.org/GSoC"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://community.kde.org/GSoC</a><wbr>.
Experienced mentors agree that:<br>
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<div>1. commits must be made before the student proposal
is submitted, and linked on that proposal, and </div>
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<div>2. that regular communication from the student must
be initiated by the student at least weekly, and we
expect daily or nearly daily communication with the
team in a more informal way.</div>
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<div>Be sure to point students to that information, as
this should lower the number of proposals, while
raising the quality.</div>
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<div>1. <a
href="https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://developers.google.<wbr>com/open-source/gsoc/timeline</a></div>
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<div>PS: If your team has an Idea, ensure that you have
mentors for it, and that those mentors are subscribe
to KDE-Soc-Mentor list. Remove any ideas without
mentors available, please. Now, before you forget!</div>
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<div>Valorie</div>
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