Ok, we'll apply as GSoC mentoring organization

[Christian Stimming]

Dear all,

to summarize:

* John said "Man, I'd really like to do it again this summer, and even if we 
only have two slots it's better to have continuous participation..."

* Derek said "I think that it's okay to have only two students, provided we 
can find good projects."

* Muslim agreed to be a mentor for this year, so we have at least John and 
Muslim as mentors.

This sounds very good. In this case I volunteer for the administrator work and 
we hand in an application to be part of GSoC this year again. Here's what we 
need to do:

- Please join the work on the org application, which I've started a wiki page 
for: http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GSoC2012/OrgApplication

- In particular, the student application template that we'd like them to use 
should include some pop quiz questions so that interested students are forced 
to have a look at the gnucash code base. Last year we had some 20 student 
applications, which makes their review quite time consuming. We should add 
some questions that clarify whether the applicants are really willing to dive 
into our source code.

- Someone must volunteer as the backup org administrator (almost no work, 
though), which requires signing up at the google-melange.com site and telling 
me the link_id of your user account

- Those who volunteer to mentor please sign up at the google-melange.com site 
and telling me the link_id of your user account

- If you have a good project proposal, feel free to add them to 
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GSoC2012 (especially if you volunteer to be a 
mentor for those proposals)

Thanks a lot!

Regards,

Christian


Am Dienstag, 28. Februar 2012, 19:07:48 schrieb Muslim Chochlov:
> Hi,
> 
> I absolutely don't mind to participate as a mentor this year. If you decide
> to submit proposal for gsoc 2012, you can count me in.
> 
> Currently I'm looking into further refactoring of libqof and I could guide
> the student with the project
> that would be quite similar to the previous year's.
> Other interesting project I can think of is mobile application to collect
> user data (yes I'm talking about Android and yes
> I'm aware of gnc4a [1]) and later input it into Gnucash. The original
> discussion could be found here [2].
> 
> [1]  http://code.google.com/p/gnc4a/
> [2]  http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2011-April/031602.html
> 
> Cheers,
> Muslim
> 
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> > Christian Stimming <christian at cstimming.de> writes:
> > > Dear all,
> > > 
> > > here's the feedback from the gnucash-devel discussion at beginning
> > > of
> > 
> > February
> > 
> > > about potentially applying at GSoC:
> > > 
> > > - AshokR: can help with the application
> > > - John: potentially mentor, but no admin
> > > - Manfred: unavailable this summer
> > > - Geert: unavailable this summer
> > > - Andy Clayton: Can do some help
> > > - Muslim Chochlov: Can assist some mentor
> > > - myself: Maybe mentor, but upon looking at my summer plans again I
> > > have> 
> > to
> > 
> > > admit I'm unavailable this summer.
> > > 
> > > This gives us one mentor (John) and another one (I'm very confident
> > > you
> > 
> > can be
> > 
> > > a very good mentor this year, Muslim!), but kind of no administrator
> > 
> > people.
> > 
> > > Maybe I can do the administration, but still, we would have at most
> > > two
> > > students. Seems to me rather like not to join this year. What do you
> > 
> > think?
> > 
> > I think that it's okay to have only two students, provided we can find
> > good projects.
> > 
> > > Best Regards,
> > > 
> > > Christian
> > 
> > -derek
> > 
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> > 
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