I've been holding off on wading into this, but I think that some sort of an idea has jelled.
I wonder about Google's statement of the mission. If Google's statement of the mission is: "Get smart students involved in open source," then we have one situation. If, on the other hand, it is more like "Get smart students to do original work (in the academic sense of the term) in an open source context," then we have another. In the former, then those TLPs that are are stable and structured and have, as it were, a limited set of available itches, should not be penalized. If it's the later, than those TLPs are at an unavoidable disadvantage. On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Kathey Marsden <kmarsdende...@sbcglobal.net > wrote: > On 4/23/2010 4:14 PM, Rahul Akolkar wrote: > >> >> <snap/> >> >> The ability to formulate a GSoC proposal and attract mentor(s) for it >> must be rewarded. >> > > If original just means not going for one of the ideas proposed by a mentor > for GSoC and exploring what's needed, including the issues in Jira and > attracting a mentor, than this would be fine as a global factor I think. > Perhaps I misunderstood what was meant by original idea. > > >
