[Soc-coordination] Debian's GSoC, applications received

[Steffen Möller]

Hello,

On 04/09/2011 02:30 PM, Ana Guerrero wrote:

> Once we have hear from all the mentors, then we should rank the proposals
> in the order we want to be accepted depending on how many slots
> we get. We have asked for 10 slots to Google (still can be changed)
> and right now we have 13 project with at least one student submission.

Why are you doing this? You got 17 projects with student submissions
of which against some intra-organisational opposition you found 13 to
be adequate for Debian's interest. And for those 13 now you ask for
funding. Google may bring this down to 10, fine. But why are you doing
so?

> Do you like this approach or you would like to do voting?

The community should do the ranking IMHO. This would involve a voting.

> I have a rst/html file with all this information and with direct
> links to the proposals in melange for easier browsing and including
> the ignored proposals.
> If you are interested, ask for the link privately or in #debian-soc-mentors.
>
> Cross-compilation and cross-virtualisation, cross-cloud with Eucalyptus
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2011/BuildWithEucalyptus
>
> **Mentor:** Steffen Moeller; seeking help/substitute from pkg-fso and/or Debian-Embedded
>
> 2 student proposals.
Rudy should be it, the other one did not contact me.

>
> Debian applications starting with a double click on that other OS from DVD
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2011/DebianEmulatedOnWindows
>
> **Mentor:** Steffen Moeller; seeking substitute
>
> 2 student proposals
+1 past the deadline.   Fabio should be the one, the only one who contacted
me before the deadline.


I put the "seeking substitute" to all the ideas of mine, IIRC, basically
by principle, and I found substitutes for the others. Just like last year.
This does not mean that I would not want to do he mentoring. Anybody
doing a better job than me with the student and being available should
please be doing it. The GSoC is about the students, not the mentors.
So, count me in ... or out if you find someone else.

Steffen