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

[Sharon Lally]

We should never forget them.  Good job folks.
Sharon

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Alex Levenson <alexlevenson at laptop.org>wrote:

> Don't forget community mentors!
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Sharon Lally <sharon at laptop.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> SJ, it sounds like a good plan....but  OLPC/1CC had problems retaining
>> mentors last year, so make sure not to over-commit.  The remaining OLPC
>> staff may not have time to mentor.
>> Sharon
>>
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>> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Samuel Klein <sj at laptop.org> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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