[Owncloud] Help us to fill the project ideas page!

[Bernhard Posselt]

Ok added the documentation job then :)
https://github.com/owncloud/core/wiki/GSoC,-GCI-and-OPW#update-developer-documentation

On 01/10/2014 12:57 PM, Alessandro Cosentino wrote:
> Hi Tom and Bernhard,
>
> This is a follow-up of your discussion on IRC as well.
>
> Thank you very much for filling up the page with your ideas and for
> giving your availability as mentors!
>
> Tom: I am not an expert of core myself, but I suspect you're right.
> Successful GSoC project have usually been those that do not require
> the student to learn too much before he starts to code.
>
> Bernhard: in my opinion the acceptance test suite makes it a great
> project. Feel free to add yourself to any other projects you'd like to
> mentor.
>
> Two notes:
> 1) even though the scope of GSoC is limited to coding, you can add
> documentation projects to the OPW list. It is another contest in which
> we are going to participate (http://gnome.org/opw/) and its scope is
> not limited to coding.
>
> 2) sorry, but I dislike projects of the kind "We need support/love
> there", as the one we are proposing for the Calendar app. We should
> try to be more clear with the boundaries of the project and, since the
> beginning, with what we expect from the student to be accomplished at
> the end of the summer. We can still rescue that idea by compiling a
> set of well-defined features that we want to add to the Calendar app.
>
> *personal note* I decided to get rid of my 'zimba12' nickname and to
> use 'cosenal' everywhere instead. I am in the transition process, so
> on IRC you will find me under zimba12 or cosenal. I am going to change
> it on github as well.
>
> Alessandro
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 11:19 PM, Thomas Müller <thomas.mueller at tmit.eu> wrote:
>> Hi Alessandro,
>>
>> thanks a lot for taking care about GSoC once again!
>>
>> Regarding project ideas, I'd like to recommend that we keep the GSoC projects on
>> new or existing apps.
>>
>> We had pretty good success in the past with apps being developed during GSoC
>> like news, music, pdf_viewer ....
>>
>> A student can work on one app pretty isolated and independent of the core.
>> Contributions to the core require much more coordination and will take longer.
>> In addition the entry boundary for core is much higher.
>>
>> I had the chance last year to support our GSoC student and I really enjoyed it.
>>
>> Please consider me as an overall mentor for all GSoC projects this year - I'm happy to help.
>>
>> I'll add my ideas to the wiki page.
>>
>> Take care,
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
>> Am Donnerstag, den 09.01.2014 um 19:17 schrieb Alessandro Cosentino:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> This year ownCloud is applying to GSoC as an independent organization.
>>> The first requisite is that we have a list of ideas for projects that
>>> are suitable for the contest. A student -- more or less independently
>>> -- should be able to reach the expected result in 12 weeks.
>>>
>>> I started to fill the page with one complete idea and a half-baked,
>>> which can be taken as examples:
>>> https://github.com/owncloud/core/wiki/GSoC%2C-GCI-and-OPW
>>>
>>> We have one month to make that page awesome!
>>>
>>> How can you help?
>>> - watch the ideas page and help us to clean it up!
>>> - if you have an idea in mind, please reply to this email or edit the
>>> wiki page yourself;
>>> - we need mentors! If you have already contributed to owncloud and
>>> want to mentor an idea, please add yourself to the list of mentors
>>> that are already on the wiki.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Alessandro
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