SoC 2008 is over - don't forget your final evaluation

[Thiago Macieira]

Mentors and students

I hope Summer (or Winter) was good for all of you. I did get to meet some 
of this year's students while at Akademy and it was very nice to put some 
faces to the names. Unfortunately, there weren't that many of you around.

Anyways, the official coding period is over. What does this mean?

- for your code? nothing. You can continue working as much as you'd like, 
knowing that from now on there are no deadlines. You can also review your 
project plan and your ideas, if that's what you want.

- for your evaluation? You should log in to the student or mentor 
dashboard on Google's website 
(http://code.google.com/soc/student_home.html or 
http://code.google.com/soc/mentor_home.html) and fill in your final 
evaluation. Without that, you don't get the T-Shirt.

- for your code upload to Google? not yet. That's after Sep. 3rd and 
Google will let you know how to do it. You should upload yesterday's 
code, regardless of whether you continue working on it or not in the 
coming weeks.

If you've worked in a separate, new module, upload the entire new code. If 
you instead worked on improving existing code, upload the patches to 
Google (using svn diff on all of your commits).

- for your participation in the KDE Community and Project? nothing. You're 
KDE developers and you're part of the community. You should stay (if you 
want) and keep on working on your code or other parts of KDE. Or 
non-coding tasks.

The whole point of Summer of Code is to introduce young students to the 
Open Source Way and to KDE in particular, to find new talent for our 
contributor base. Regardless of your evaluation results, we want to keep 
you. So, tell me: what can we older developers do for you to stay?
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