[p2pu-dev] Google Summer of Code 2011

John Britton public at johndbritton.com
Thu Feb 3 23:23:40 UTC 2011


Thanks Joe,

I was a GSoC student in 2008 and have a pretty good idea of what's involved.
I'm planning to work with a few Brown students in the next few months and
will use that as a prep for GSoC.

Cheers,
John
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On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Joe Corneli <holtzermann17 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi:
>
> I'm not qualified to mentor students for this project (and probably
> too busy to apply myself *as* a student) -- but I'd be happy to offer
> some words of advice about working with GSoC students in general,
> assuming you haven't done it before.  Mainly, just like with P2PU
> courses, you must do what you can make sure the parties involved are
> highly committed!   Otherwise you'll find people who make it to the
> half-way point and drop (they still get half the money, if they choose
> to claim it).
>
> Meeting the people in person isn't enough.  Previous commits to the
> codebase isn't enough.   Leadership in the project (Jessy) or in their
> own project (mystery persons who you haven't met yet) -- much better
> indication of success!  Final word of "wisdom" is to value
> *communication* very highly.  You don't want these people
> disappearing, but it's almost as bad if they don't document their
> work...
>
> Joe
>
> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:29 PM, John Britton <public at johndbritton.com>
> wrote:
> > I want to get some GSoC students working on Lernanta, anyone else
> interested
> > in being a mentor if I do the application?
> >
> http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2011/timeline
> > Cheers,
> > John
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> > @johndbritton - http://twitter.com/johndbritton
> >
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