Community bonding period

[Thiago Macieira]

Hello students

All 48 of you are subscribed to this list now and confirmed. We have had no 
drop-outs so far and I'd like to keep it like that!

Anyways, the official start of the SoC actual coding is in a week in a half 
from now. I suggest you take the time from now until then to do the following 
two things:

1) check out from Subversion the code you'll be working on and get it to 
build. If possible, start looking into it and understanding how things are 
laid out.

2) bond with the community. This is far more important: we are far more 
interested in you than in the code you will produce. So, make sure you are 
subscribed to the mailing list(s) of the project you'll be working on; 
present yourself, tell people what your project will be about, what your 
ideas are, etc. Then listen to what people have to say about your project. 
Also, pay attention to other discussions going on, as that will teach you a 
lot about the workings of the application.

For both of these things, you can count on the help from your mentor. That's 
what your mentor is there for. Ask for help if you need to get things 
building, to find out which mailing lists you should subscribe to. Use your 
mentor to bounce ideas back and forth.

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