[Sugar-devel] Fwd: Google Summer of Code 2009 is a go!

[Samuel Klein]

I'm copying our own gsoc list, and glad to clarify how this should work.

I mentioned to Leslie yesterday that I expected SugarLabs and OLPC
might have  separate GSOC projects this year.  Someone representing SL
should write and formally get on their list of supported
organizations.  [note: this requires tax/ID information for SL]

OLPC is interested in participating in GSOC this year... some of the
projects I imagine would be activities or software for creation that
would work particularly with the XO's hardware, or would help needs in
 OLPC deployments.

It would be alright for both SugarLabs and OLPC to have people working
on code that could be integrated into Sugar (note the different
activity-development and python coding that was done both as an OLPC
SoC project and via other orgs who wanted their projects to be useful
to OLPC as an audience).  It is also possible to submit an application
to more than one organization.

I recommend noting in our organization descriptions (and definition of
what we are looking for) that people who want to develop tools and
features for Sugar should apply to SL, and people who want to develop
things specifically for OLPC deployments, or other software puzzles
specific to XOs, should apply to OLPC.

I would encourage most activity developers and activity mentors to
tackle SoC projects under sugarlabs...

SJ


On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Ed McNierney <ed at laptop.org> wrote:
> Yes, but in 2007 "they" were "us", no?
>
> Thanks, this is helpful information (I didn't know the status of
> OLPC's previous GSoC work).  I don't see why there is any reason to
> presume that OLPC would NOT be interested in 2009 GSoC, but I don't
> know of any active ideas/proposals kicking around here.  I would
> strongly encourage Sugar Labs ideas, however - to Ben's point, there
> should be no confusion.  The only things I could imagine (and it's
> just imagining) coming from OLPC would be ancillary ideas (school
> server add-ons?) that would be quite distinct from XO/Sugar software.
> Go for it!
>
>        - Ed
>
>
> On Jan 8, 2009, at 3:54 PM, Wade Brainerd wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org>
>> wrote:
>>> We should take into account that organizations are assigned slots
>>> based on their well behaviour in past editions.
>>
>> To be clear, OLPC was put on GSoC 'probation' last year due to their
>> poor performance reporting on students' work in 2007.  They only
>> received 4 slots despite hundreds of applications.
>>
>> Wade
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