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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: gsoc2008 - Organization Application [DRAFT]Re: gsoc2008 - Organization Application [DRAFT]
From: Jerry Van Baren <gvb.rbx_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:17:30 -0500 Daniel Stenberg wrote: > Hello! > > It is time to apply for becoming a mentoring organization for > Google's Summer of Code 2008. I've taken the liberty of re-using last > year's application heavily and adjusted them to this year. Attached > is my draft for how to respond to the questions. > > I'm open for feedback on both content and how it is phrased etc. > Don't hold on to your comments very long though, since I hope to > submit this in a few days. > > -- > Daniel Stenberg -- http://www.rockbox.org/ -- http://daniel.haxx.se/ Hi Daniel, Here are a few mostly minor English tweaks. [snip] > 5. Did your organization participate in previous GSoC years? If so, please > summarize your involvement and the successes and failures of your student > projects. (optional) > > We took part of the program last year (2007) in which we got four projects s/in which we got four projects/in which four of our projects were/ > accepted. Over all I think gsoc2007 gave us a real boost and we learned a lot > about the progress and how to act as mentors etc to bring with us for this s/progress/process/ ??? Proposed rephrase of the above sentence: about the process and how to work as mentors, which will make us even more effective this > year. Out of the four projects, one failed. We hope that the experience we got Out of the four projects, three succeeded. (our cup is 3/4 full, not 1/4 empty!!!) > will make all projects we get this year succeed! Rephrase? will make all of our GSoC2008 projects succeed! [snip] > About Your Mentors > ================== > > 1. What criteria did you use to select these individuals as mentors? Please be > as specific as possible. > > All full committers who volunteer are eligible to act as mentors - final > choices will be made after we have a list of student applicants, so that we > can choose mentors suited to the specific areas of the projects that are > actually being accepted. > > The volunteering mentors all have many years experience of both the Rockbox > project as well as indepth knowledge of the source code and general concepts. s/indepth/in depth/ [snip] > About The Program > ================= > > 1. What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students? > > We will be requesting that all students communicate with their mentor or the > project community at least once a week, to ensure that any disappearances or > falling behind gets noticed promptly. > > We will invite and encourage the students to join and participate in the > community, in the mailing lists, IRC and forums so that they feel a part of > Rockbox and not something happening on the outside. To reduce the risk of them s/To reduce the risk/This also reduces the risk/ > disappearing. > > 2. What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors? > > All mentors are full committers, who have maintained a long term association > with the project. Outright disappearance is therefore vanishingly unlikely. Hehehe good pun: disappearance / vanishing. :-D > In case of mentors experiencing unexpected time pressure, the committer > community provides a large enough pool of potential volunteers that we should > be able to arrange cover. > > We have a large pool of active and skilled project members that should be able > to cover temporary "outages" of single individual mentors. s/single// [snip] > By mentoring the students into this world and style of acting, we hope that > they will see and understand the upside of doing it this way and that they s/upside/benefit/ (no pointy hair bosses or BS bingo around here ;-) > will then continue doing so even after the project's completion. > > 4. What will you do to ensure that your accepted students stick with the > project after GSoC concludes? > > We have a set of mentors who act professionally and assist as good as we can s/good/well/ (IIRC, I'm always a little fuzzy on good vs. well) > to help the students see the fun in open source hacking our way. We truly > believe that once they've got their feet wet and got the hang of some of the s/got/gotten/g > internals, they too will see the light and will hang around even after this > summer. s/hang around/continue to contribute/ ??? HTH, gvb Received on 2008-03-05 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |