In case you guys are interested in reading through the whole, long discussion on the gsoc channel, the complete log should eventually made its way to this page:
http://ibot.rikers.org/%23gsoc/ Right now the list stops at yesterday's log, so I guess it's updated once a day. Cheers, S. On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 2:14 PM, stefano franchi <stefano.fran...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijn <v...@lyx.org> wrote: >>> At least, now I can sleep well, knowing I could not have done more. >>> >> As frustrating as it is, to me it is still comforting to know that the >> application was top-notch and exactly as Google expected it to be. >> >> For GSoC 2012 we will be using our 2011 application and list of ideas >> as a backbone. However, I would much prefer that we avoid the >> seven-days-before-the-deadline rush, so I plan to create a GSoC 2012 >> draft page as soon as this week in which we will invite everyone to >> submit ideas all year long (preferably in Google-expected format, but >> acceptably in an itemized form). This way we could cherry-pick seven >> days before the deadline and get more sleep during that week. :) >> > Excellent idea. > > The ideas page could be even richer in information. For instance, it > could have stuff about the project, personal info about the mentors, > etcetera. For reference, here are the links to two ideas pages that > were highly praised during the chat: > (first one is Sage an algebra system, the second opne is the Semantic > Media Wiki) > > https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1v91UmkDvgEInzPFT_g0osid5g69oKKmyx0NclwcyqI4&pli=1 > > http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/GSoC_2011 > > The few lines in yellow at the beginning of the Sage Ideas page were > actually added after the chat and reflect Carol's suggestions. > and here is one that was criticized as being too skimpy: > > http://jmonkeyengine.org/gsoc-2011/ideas-page/ > > Cheers, > > S. > > > > >> Let me know if you have different ideas. Cheers >> Liviu >> >
