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

[Samuel Klein]

On reflection, I think it might be a good thing to make a single
really excellent mentoring framework for people through sugarlabs, and
not to have two gsoc programs at all.  OLPC will have a good bit of
mentoring to do to look after travelling interns, which is likely to
be a larger program than it was last year.

People who write OLPC asking to mentor or intern for software can be
directed to that program.  And people who have gsoc experience through
other groups can help with the setup / to make sure sugarlabs isn't
treated like a novice participant.

--SJ


On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de> wrote:
> Mel Chua wrote:
>> That depends on what OLPC's GSoC focus is - it may *not* be Sugar at
>> all, in which case the organizational intern allocations should be (and
>> they should be, anyway!) independent of each other.
>>
>> Marcin, do you recall where you heard/saw that rule? Googling for things
>> like "gsoc limit of 2 students" isn't getting me anywhere - I want to
>> have a few moments to read through all the docs and historical paperwork
>> before emailing Leslie (likely tomorrow, as there will be time to catch
>> my breath then).
>>
>> Is anybody here, aside from SJ, a former GSoC coordinator who can chime
>> in / fill in details / help? I am *completely *swamped for the next 24
>> hours wrapping up the "becoming a volunteer again" process.
>>
>> --Mel
>
> I did mentor Hemant Goyal on sugar speech synthesis.
> http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=User:Hemant_goyal We did quite ok
> during the program. I would probably set stricter schedule in terms of
> wrapping up the status and milestones. But apart from that I was quite
> heppy what we achieved and I think Hemant was as well, I think.
>
> About the slots I can not say much, I only did fill out forms for the
> assessment.
>
> Regards,
>    Simon