[Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] GSoC is for coding projects

[Walter Bender]

I thought I struck out all the non-programming tasks... /me looks again.

On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 4:40 PM, Lionel Laské <lionel.laske at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Most tasks are no longer struck out...
> I think it's unfair to let students write proposals about projects we will
> be force to ignore to comply to Google rules.
>
>          Lionel.
>
>
> 2018-02-03 21:14 GMT+01:00 Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>:
>
>> The non-coding tasks are struck out.
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 3:13 PM, Lionel Laské <lionel.laske at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Yesterday we had a discussion at SLOB meeting regarding possibility to
>>> submit GSoC projects without coding tasks (marketing, documentation,
>>> localization, ...).
>>> I asked a question regarding this point on the GSoC mentor mailing list.
>>>
>>> Following is the very clear answer from Cat Allman, member of the Google
>>> GSoC team. Shortly: "GSoC is about coding".
>>>
>>> So I suggest that we update our project list page [1] to be more
>>> compliant with these rule. Few projects are clearly not coding tasks today.
>>>
>>> Best regards from France.
>>>
>>>           Lionel.
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2018
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Cat Allman
>>> Date: 2018-02-03 18:38 GMT+01:00
>>> Subject: Re: [GSoC Mentors] Non coding projects for GSoC ?
>>> Cc: lionel at olpc-france.org, Google Summer of Code Mentors List <
>>> google-summer-of-code-mentors-list at googlegroups.com>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Lionel,
>>>
>>> Summer of Code is indeed about coding. Our program for teens, Google
>>> Code-in, includes other kinds of open source contribution, but GSOC does
>>> not.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Cat
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Feb 3, 2018, 23:41 Lionel Laské <lionel.laske at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Vocabulary used on GSoC web site is mainly focused on developers:
>>>> "summer of code", "student developers", "programming projects", "start of
>>>> coding period", ...
>>>>
>>>> So I wondering if it's okay to propose projects for GSoC without coding
>>>> or with few coding. For example:
>>>> - Write an user documentation,
>>>> - Create a marketing website,
>>>> - Update a wiki,
>>>> - Do translation,
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advice for advices/answers.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards from France.
>>>>
>>>>          Lionel.
>>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
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