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

[Bertjan Broeksema]

On Tuesday 19 August 2008 20:01:12 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> 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?

What can you do? Well, not more then continuing to be a great community I 
guess. As last year I really enjoyed working with KDE people on KDE software. 
Everything was arranged very well which made it a smooth GSoC for me. It was 
also great to be at Akademy and meet some kdepim people overthere.

Regards,

Bertjan