Google SoC History

[Ian Monroe]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Celeste Lyn Paul<celeste at kde.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Some of you may know this alrady, but I have taken over coordination for the
> OpenUsability Season of Usability. It is very similar to the Google SoC except
> we do usability work.
>
> I am interested in finding ways the SoU can retain more of our student interns.
> And so I am looking at KDE's involvement in the Google SoC. There have been a
> ton of Amarok projects for the Google SoC, so I thought I would start with
> you.
>
> I created a Googledoc spreadsheet with every KDE SoC project up until 2008.
> (Before you yell "Wiki!" I thought a Googledoc would be more convenient
> because you can sort and stuff) Listed are the year, student name, project,
> mentor, and a few other columns:
>
> http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=rmUQnpZNoku8j3w5aqya_VQ
>
> I would *greatly* appreciate it if those of you who have mentored SoC projects
> (or perhaps you are a student turn developer) to fill out the rest of the
> columns for your project. These columns are questions aimed to see if students
> continue contributing to KDE and how long:
>
> Was the project code committed? Yes or No
> Did the student continue to contribute after the SoC? Yes or No
> How long did the student continue to contribute? < 3 months or 3-6 months or
> 6+ months or Still contributing
>
> Let me know if you have any questions.
>
> Thanks!

It looks like you missed the failed SoC projects. There was only one
in Amarok history (I added him), but I don't know about others.

Ian