[p2pu-dev] Google Summer of Code 2011

[Joe Corneli]

You may very well have a better idea about what's involved in
successful GSoC than I have!!  My direct experiences were all with
projects that were not resounding successes.

FWIW.  I'm sure others besides me can provide their own horror (or
success) stories.

Joe



On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:23 PM, John Britton <public at johndbritton.com> wrote:
> 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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>> > http://www.johndbritton.com
>> > @johndbritton - http://twitter.com/johndbritton
>> >
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