[Kde-games-devel] GSoC 2010

[Parker Coates]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 16:06, Mauricio Piacentini wrote:
> Well, I think that Mancala at least produced the intended results (a
> working game). As for Parsek I am really not up to date with it: what
> has happened so far?
>
> I don't know really, but maybe the "problem" is that we are not
> choosing the best people to work with kdegames. We could try a
> different approach, at least with one or two slots this time: what
> about choosing a student that HAS ALREADY contributed something to the
> community, someone that has been around in IRC, kdebugs or in the
> mailing list? One of the goals of SoC is to get new contributors, but
> it is also ok for students that are already part of the community to
> submit an applications, as long as the work that they are going to do
> is new. Perusing the 2009 list I can see some examples of this
> approach, with projects from Chani, Sandro, Sascha, Martin and others.
> These people were already contributing to KDE, and used the SoC time
> and resources to go deeper into a specific project that otherwise
> would not be done (as the authors would have to find a different
> source of income or pick a different job unrelated to KDE for the
> duration of the summer.)

Hmm. I just went back to school to do a second degree and I don't have
any major plans for the summer.  Is there a maximum age for GSOC?

Parker