On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Daniel Arbelo Arrocha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > I've been following parrot development for quite a while and have > dived into it's internals over the past months. Fortunately, I've > recently acquired more spare time than I used to have, which I'd love > to spend hacking on parrot. And just in time for the SoC, which I've > noticed TPF is apparently entering again as a mentoring organization. > So I figured I'd ask a few questions. > welcome! glad to have your interest.
> I'd like to know what (if any) extra requirements does Parrot (or > TPF as the case may be) have for it's SoC applicants, both technical and > nontechnical. For instance, I'm located in Argentina, which makes any > kind of face-to-face interaction unlikely, if not impossible. > there are no extra requirements. over 95% of parrot development is done without any two parrot hackers within shouting distance, so we're quite familiar with working remotely. > Also, I dislike working in a vacuum, so I wanted to know what is the > proper channel to get feedback on proposal ideas, and interact with > likely mentors beforehand, which I believe is the best way to craft a > proposal that gives the most benefits to both the project and myself. > On the other hand, if this isn't the proper place to ask this, I'd > appreciate a pointer to it. > i'm organizing the parrot portion of google summer of code, and i'll be happy to take your questions directily via email. a number of parrot committers (myself included) can usually be found on irc.perl.org#parrot. i expect most of the folks who sign up to mentor a student will be available there. for the time being, this list is a fine place to direct summer of code questions, however if it becomes too distracting i'll make other arrangements for email. i don't expect that to happene we're still in the planning stages of course, since we're working on the mentoring organization proposal. you can find more info online at http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc2008. ~jerry
