<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 5:50 PM, David Edmundson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david@davidedmundson.co.uk" target="_blank">david@davidedmundson.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hey guys,<br><br>Google code-in has now finished, we need to think about GSOC.<br><br>I know this is rather early but last year we were a bit caught out with dealing with random people emailing the mailing list. <br><br>
<b>Who here is interested in being a mentor?</b><br>
<br></blockquote><div>Me! I'll do it, I'll do it!</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><b>Does anyone have any ideas for projects?<br>
</b><br></blockquote><div>I want some kick-ass demo of tubes. I ideally want my collaborative editor plugin in kate. To make us more than just "another IM client."</div><div><br></div><div>Plasma Active would be another good topic. 3 more months on that would make a real difference.</div>
<div>I can't see it moving forwards without someone really stepping up. We can probably get someone from Plasma to co-mentor. I'll have all the declarative plugins all nice and awesome by then.</div><div><br></div>
<div>Unit testing our library? I'm not sure anyone would want to do that. Partly because it's boring, and partly because unit testing something with dbus stuff is very hard.</div><div><br></div><div>*Crazy idea* Could we get a student to work on TpQt and finish the CM bindings? I had a look, and quite a bit is done... the code is not /that/ hard.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Dave</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><b>Proposed action plan:</b><div><br></div><div>For when perspective students email us (based on comments from last year):<br>
- Instead of responding to GSOC threads on the ML we just forward them to a wiki page with the basic information.<br>
<br> - Any students who want to discuss their proposal before adding to melange can email a tiny mailing list of everyone who's volunteered to be a mentor.. we will place a link to this on our wiki. <br><br> - We ask potential students to showcase their existing open source work (in any project, in any langauge whatever, even just filing in userbase).. if they've done nothing we ignore them.</div>
<div><br>(note to any students reading this.. start hacking now!)<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br>David </font></span></div>
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