[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] Google Summer of Code 2017

[Ignacio Rodríguez]

Count me in as a mentor.

As I suggested in #sugar, we should focus on FIXING/OPTIMIZING code
instead of creating new one this year.. (I know it's students choice,
but we can put some ideas in the wiki)

On 1/22/17, Lionel Laské <lionel.laske at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> SugarLabs participation in GSoC is very important. Previous GSoC give me
> lot of opportunities to improve Sugarizer activities/features in a very
> impressive way. I don't have Sugarizer projects proposal for GSoC 2017 for
> the moment but I will certainly have projects to submit.
>
> BTW I think that we must be very cautious on:
> - Project selection: one project is one token, i.e. one student working for
> us during months. We can't lost a token opportunity for a project with few
> interest or with few chance to go to its end. We should have an objective
> view on project from last years: how many projects are really integrated
> into Sugar/Sugarizer today ?
> - Mentor selection: a mentor should be someone with experience on its
> subject. He must perfectly know the project, the project goal and must have
> a very good technical knowledge of its subject. So, sorry to say that not
> everyone could be a mentor.
>
> May be it could be interesting to imagine a sort of selection process for
> projects, then for mentors.
>
> Best regards for France.
>
>         Lionel.
>
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> 2017-01-22 16:06 GMT+01:00 Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>:
>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 9:59 AM, Charles <ccosse at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Walter,
>>>
>>> I'm new to Sugar but have recently started working on contributions so
>>> Sugarizer and also to Sugar.  I would like to be involved in Sugar's
>>> GSOC
>>> this year as a mentor, or other.  I have the experience with Python and
>>> JavaScript, just not with Sugar all this time until now.  What is
>>> involved
>>> in being an administrator?
>>>
>>
>> The admin role (we need two) is more about managing the logistics:
>> ensuring we are fulfilling all of our obligations as a participating
>> organization in terms of mentoring, reporting, etc.
>>
>> -walter
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Charles Cosse
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 6:47 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> We are still wrapping up GCI and already Google has announced that the
>>>> application window for Google Summer of Code [1] is open. Before I
>>>> pursue
>>>> the possibility of Sugar Labs participating, I wanted to get a sense of
>>>> the
>>>> opinion of the Sugar Labs community and the Sugar Labs oversight board.
>>>> Should I apply on behalf of Sugar Labs? Anyone interested in either
>>>> being a
>>>> mentor or an administrator?
>>>>
>>>> regards.
>>>>
>>>> -walter
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Walter Bender
>>>> Sugar Labs
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>>>> [1] https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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>> Walter Bender
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Ignacio Rodríguez