[Sugar-devel] GSoC is for coding projects

[Walter Bender]

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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