[Dune-devel] Google summer of code 2013 (Deadline March 29)

[Oliver Sander]

Hi Markus,
thanks for your effort.  I volunteer to mentor; particularly for the
first two items in the wiki.  I'll try to do the necessary changes on
the wiki tomorrow during the day.
best,
Oliver

Am 19.03.2013 18:18, schrieb Markus Blatt:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 02:45:29PM +0100, Christian Engwer wrote:
>> I'm very much in favour of your proposal. I'd also volunteer to help.
>>
>> I setup a wiki (only for the core devs):
>> http://users.dune-project.org/projects/soc2013/wiki/
> Thanks a lot for the effort. I tried to restructure this a little.
>
> The deadline for an application is March 29, 2013.
>
> As I did not get any feedback from other developers yet, I currently have
> Christian and myself listed as admins and available mentors. I think,
> that we would need at least 3 more people willing and able (time-wise)
> to serve as mentors. Core developers are of course a first option but
> other heavy contributors are very welcome, too.
>
> If you are willing to contribute as a mentor, please yell here and add
> yourself in the Wiki.
>
> There is now a list of questions that we have to answer in our
> application at
> <http://users.dune-project.org/projects/soc2013/wiki/Questions_from_Google>.
> I will try to answer them until Monday. This will give others time to
> reiterate my answers and fine-tune them.
>
> The heart of our application will be our list of project
> ideas
> <http://users.dune-project.org/projects/soc2013/wiki/Project_Ideas>.
> Students will have to able to fullfil these within 12 weeks and should
> clearly see whether they have the abilities to work on them. More
> information can be found at
> <http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCMentoring/making-your-ideas-page/>.
> Of course GSOC is about programming, but that does not mean that there
> can't be ideas where people need scientific skills. I think a few
> entry level projects and in between some for top notch students is OK
> as long as people are able to distinguish between them.
>
> If you already posted some ideas, please elaborate a little bit about
> them. Currently, I have no clue what most of them really mean.
>
> For every project listed, there should be a responsible person that
> also serves as mentor or another developer volunteering as a mentor.
>
> Maybe we can polish the existing projects and add some new ones until
> March 27?
>
> Timeline:
> Until March 25: Markus answers the questions of Google for review.
> Until March 27: Contribute and finish the project ideas page.
> Until March 28: 3 additional volunteers sign up as mentors.
> March 28: Decision whether to apply or not
>
> Let us see how that works out ;)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Markus
>