On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 07:16:14AM +0100, Anselm R Garbe wrote: > On 13 January 2016 at 21:34, FRIGN <[email protected]> wrote: > > I must honestly say that I'm not convinced a GSoC would be a good influx > > of positive activity for suckless projects. > > It would have a good PR effect at least. > > > It takes a while for people to develop the right mindset and understand > > the philosophy behind our work. Successfully finishing a GSoC student > > programme would require a strict mentoring in the process. > > That is always the case. > > > Depending on who is the student, the first steps will be difficult. > > Not necessarily. If we'd be accepted by Google, we can actually pick > the student ourselves based on its application. The application > material should suffice to check prior work for suckless > compatibility. > > > Also, I am confident that people find suckless, and not the other way > > around. > > Sure, but there are chances to rescue at least one or two deluded > intelligences through GSoC, that would otherwise end up as C++ or > Swift zealots.
I would vote for trying as well but I am lazy... here is the GSOC timeline. Project applications are due till the 19th of February. https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
