Grant Goodyear wrote:
> Google has been hinting not-so-subtlely that there's going to be
> a 2008 Google Summer of Code. I expect that if we want to participate,
> we're going to have to have our ducks in a row by March, if not
> earlier.
>
> So, does Gentoo want to participate this year?
>
> If so, who's going to run it? Who's going to help? What are
> we going to do differently this year?
>
> I'll help if it's something people want to do, but I'd like to see
> some serious changes this year. I'd like us to only accept proposals
> that we actually think are quite good. In the past we've been told that we
> have N slots to fill, so we choose the best N proposals, despite the
> fact that we often only get a handful of exceptional proposals. I'd
> also like to see us require weekly public status reports from our
> students. Quick show of hands: how many people know how what any
> of our students accomplished last year? I doubt there are many,
> despite the fact that some good work was done last year.
>
> Thoughts? Comments?
>
> -g2boojum-
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That's one of the things that will be discussed at the upcoming User Rel
meeting...
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