Super Early GSOC Thread

[Martin Klapetek]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 6:50 PM, David Edmundson <david at davidedmundson.co.uk
> wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> Google code-in has now finished, we need to think about GSOC.
>
> I know this is rather early but  last year we were a bit caught out with
> dealing with random people emailing the mailing list.
>
> *Who here is interested in being a mentor?*


Me.


> *Does anyone have any ideas for projects?
> *


Not yet :/


> **
> *Proposed action plan:*
>
> For when perspective students email us (based on comments from last year):
>  - Instead of responding to GSOC threads on the ML we just forward them to
> a wiki page with the basic information.
>
>  - Any students who want to discuss their proposal before adding to
> melange can email a tiny mailing list of everyone who's volunteered to be a
> mentor.. we will place a link to this on our wiki.
>
>  - We ask potential students to showcase their existing open source work
> (in any project, in any langauge whatever, even just filing in userbase)..
> if they've done nothing we ignore them.
>

Better formulation - as you said on irc - prefer those with experience, but
don't ignore complete newcomers.


> (note to any students reading this.. start hacking now!)
>

Cheers
-- 
Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer
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