Hi all,<div><br></div><div>Welcome to another round of GSoC. I welcome your thoughts on a few issues. Here are some topic headers for discussion:</div><div><br></div><div><b>Recruitment</b></div><div><i>any suggestions on how to recruit?</i></div>
<div>- mentors</div><div>- students</div><div><br></div><div><b>How should we as a group deal with</b></div><div><i>problems that we could face, any recommended counter-strategies</i></div><div>- shy students / reluctance to engage on lists, etc</div>
<div>- supporting the mentors</div><div>- incorporating code.. separate branches or regularly submitting to the trunk?</div><div><br></div><div><b>Reporting</b></div><div><i>what is the best way to monitor progress? should we make progress reports public?</i></div>
<div>- which mailing lists should we encourage students to join?</div><div>- weekly, fourtnightly, monthly progress reporting?</div><div>- keep progress reports between student/mentor?</div><div><br></div><div><b>Code requirements</b></div>
<div><i>what should Sugar Labs & mentors be looking for</i></div><div>- coding style</div><div>- level of comments</div><div>- lines of code per week</div><div><br></div><div><b>Potential assessment criteria</b></div>
<div><i>what is the relative importance of</i></div><div>- IAEP, e.g. that the student 'gets' the education philosophy rather than a pure technology focus</div><div>- Willingness to learn from mentor's advice</div>
<div>- Code quality</div><div>- Code quantity</div><div>- Communication skills</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Tim</div><div>@timClicks</div><div>Sugar Labs GSoC 2010 Coordinator</div>