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

[Walter Bender]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 4:42 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
wrote:

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

Re-struck a couple of project. While I don't agree that some of these
project ideas are high priority, I think everything that remains does in
fact involve some programming.

>
> 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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