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 1JKgDK-0001yl-3X for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:40:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5019DE029D; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:40:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com (mu-out-0910.google.com [209.85.134.190]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06C32E029D for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:40:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id i10so834445mue.5 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:40:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.129.16 with SMTP id b16mr4308964hud.39.1201812033545; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:40:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.46.19 with HTTP; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:40:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:40:33 -0800 From: "Alec Warner" Sender: antarus@scriptkitty.com To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] 2008 Google Summer of Code In-Reply-To: <20080131191857.GL803@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=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080129151217.GQ10639@feynman.corp.halliburton.com> <479F794A.3060302@gmail.com> <479F82AA.3050804@gentoo.org> <20080131191857.GL803@gentoo.org> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 1e7b24e485059b4b X-Archives-Salt: 982745fc-b9f9-4fa3-8958-86f2437afd12 X-Archives-Hash: e8f7a4cfaa09a1d45733c04665d92487 On 1/31/08, Fabian Groffen wrote: > 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. I would prefer students come up with their own ideas ;) GSoc has not started and we have not been picked as an organization. I expect we will be but I an hesistant to act without being selected. That being said, feel free to file a bug and if/when we are selected I will update the webpage accordingly for SoC 2008. You can attach ideas to the bug until the webpage is up; does that seem good enough? -Alec > > > -- > Fabian Groffen > Gentoo on a different level > -- > gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list