From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JKewB-00021h-Mo for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:19:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 32191E0348; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:19:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from osiris.cheops.ods.org (osiris.cheops.ods.org [82.95.138.191]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08025E0348 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:19:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tefnut.cheops.ods.org ([2001:888:1022:0:211:24ff:fe37:e46e] helo=gentoo.org) by osiris.cheops.ods.org with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JKew8-0007XG-Ke for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:19:00 +0100 Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:18:57 +0100 From: Fabian Groffen To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] 2008 Google Summer of Code Message-ID: <20080131191857.GL803@gentoo.org> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20080129151217.GQ10639@feynman.corp.halliburton.com> <479F794A.3060302@gmail.com> <479F82AA.3050804@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (Darwin 8.11.0, VIM - Vi IMproved 7.1) Organization: Gentoo Foundation, Inc. X-Archives-Salt: ec584e83-2737-4e88-b72c-309f75a40ce8 X-Archives-Hash: 7c0b8bd45088ff72b803c9f44345727f On 29-01-2008 12:24:56 -0800, Alec Warner wrote: > > To give a short answer, its a combination of projects suggested by > > developer and projects submitted by the students. They get reviewed by > > the User Rel/SOC Staff and put into an order of projects to submit to > > Google. They then decide which ones they approve of to fund for the > > students to work on. > > > > Anyone can contribute 'ideas'. 'Ideas' are not proposals and > proposals are what (in the past) we have had to rank and fund. So if > your 'idea' doesn't get a competant proposal written by a student it > is not going to get funded, end of story. Is there a place were devs can just throw in 'ideas'? I have a couple in mind, so it would be great if there was a place where interested "students" can go to see all ideas and pick one they like. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list