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 <div class="gmail_quote"> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Samuel Klein <<a href="mailto:sj@laptop.org">sj@laptop.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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 <<a href="mailto:ed@laptop.org">ed@laptop.org</a>> 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 <<a href="mailto:tomeu@sugarlabs.org">tomeu@sugarlabs.org</a>> >> 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> >> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> > _______________________________________________ Gsoc mailing list <a href="mailto:Gsoc@lists.laptop.org">Gsoc@lists.laptop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/gsoc" target="_blank">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/gsoc</a> </blockquote></div> -- Sharon Lally Director, Human Resources One Laptop Per Child 617.452.5680 <a href="mailto:sharon@laptop.org">sharon@laptop.org</a> <a href="http://www.laptop.org">www.laptop.org</a> Give a Laptop. Get a Laptop.  Change the world!  Visit <a href="http://www.laptop.org/en/">http://www.laptop.org/en/</a> for more information.