GSoC students x ideas

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Monday 30 March 2009, J. Janz wrote:
> 1) Students have to apply strictly for ideas listed on idea's page?

no, use your imagination and scratch your itches! :)

> Or can
> they come with some other idea and have the same chance to participate in
> the program as who applies to the listed ones?

absolutely!

> 2) In the second case on the above question, if a student comes with an
> idea that KDE (or plasma team - as I'm refering to you), let's suppose,
> wants implemented in this year's GSoC it but it's quite close to an idea
> from idea's page (it's not exactly the same thing but have a similar
> purpose - like his idea making possible for the user to obtain the expected
> results of the idea on the page). What would be the possibilities?
> KDE/plasma would have to decide from one or the other idea? Would be able
> to get them both? Or must keep strict to its idea's page (and then it's the
> first case of the previous question)?

it really comes down to the quality of the submissions. the ideas are there to 
help give people ideas of what might need to get done or what might be nice to 
see worked on. but it's certainly neither exhaustive nor the definitive list 
of what is allowable.

be creative, be thorough ... :)

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