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 1JJuC9-0002fD-Ld for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:24:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 023F3E039D; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:24:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0D96E039D for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:24:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.19.56] (unknown [69.80.192.62]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41DE564CC8 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:24:23 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <479F6145.9000109@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:24:21 -0800 From: joshua jackson User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071120) 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 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] 2008 Google Summer of Code References: <20080129151217.GQ10639@feynman.corp.halliburton.com> In-Reply-To: <20080129151217.GQ10639@feynman.corp.halliburton.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 51660c07-79a7-42ba-b9d2-e180c553db56 X-Archives-Hash: 436e7addd47014bb7b457a0cf089aa3a Grant Goodyear wrote: > Google has been hinting not-so-subtlely that there's going to be > a 2008 Google Summer of Code. I expect that if we want to participate, > we're going to have to have our ducks in a row by March, if not > earlier. > > So, does Gentoo want to participate this year? > > If so, who's going to run it? Who's going to help? What are > we going to do differently this year? > > I'll help if it's something people want to do, but I'd like to see > some serious changes this year. I'd like us to only accept proposals > that we actually think are quite good. In the past we've been told that we > have N slots to fill, so we choose the best N proposals, despite the > fact that we often only get a handful of exceptional proposals. I'd > also like to see us require weekly public status reports from our > students. Quick show of hands: how many people know how what any > of our students accomplished last year? I doubt there are many, > despite the fact that some good work was done last year. > > Thoughts? Comments? > > -g2boojum- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > !DSPAM:479f440c189611018716084! That's one of the things that will be discussed at the upcoming User Rel meeting... -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list