Hey Christian, yes, I've read your mail about GSoC 2011 and I like the idea.
So far I have never participated in the GSoC program, but I can imagine to participate as a mentor for GnuCash and to have fun mentoring a student. Even better if our project may benefit from it. Regarding ideas for suitable tasks I have no good suggestions off the top of my head, but I will give it some thought. Kind regards, Manfred On Sat, 5 Mar 2011 13:07:39 +0100 Christian Stimming <stimm...@tuhh.de> wrote: > Dear Manfred, > > I guess you've read my explanation of the Google Summer of Code > plans > http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2011-March/031268.html > > I'd like to ask you to consider acting as a mentor in that program. I > think you will be in a good position to guide a newly entering > student into a useful way of collaborating with the project, and I > think you will have enough ideas on how to guide the student so that > he/she has a lot of fun while doing these 12 weeks assignment. > > If you need more information about what the mentor role is all about, > I suggest reading through this: > http://www.booki.cc/gsoc-mentoring/_v/1.0/what-makes-a-good-mentor/ > I was such a mentor in our 2007 GSoC participation. It's not so > important to know the deep details about the gnucash codebase. It is > much more important to establish and emphasize a good and regular > communication from the student to you and to the gnucash community. > The technical task itself may or may not turn out successful; I > wouldn't expect too much on average from those students. But some of > them will be really bright and bring a lot of innovation to the > project, and simply because of them the whole effort will be worth it. > > What do you think? > > Best Regards, > > Christian _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
