Mail Archives: geda-user/2015/07/14/12:38:27
On Monday 13 July 2015, Ouabache Designworks
(z3qmtr45 AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> Can gEDA sponsor a student for a summer project? If we are
> contemplating changes then we need to do some project
> management and make a toDo list that is broken down into a
> series of tasks, reguirements and expectations. Perhaps this
> list could be used by students looking for project ideas.
>
> Does anyone have any experiance with GSoc?
Yes .... done several with gnucap, will do it again, but not
this year.
Whether they were successful or not depends on your viewpoint.
If you are looking to add expert developers to the team who can
do rapid high quality work from the start, it doesn't work that
way.
Reality is they are students without experience that need lots
of coaching. This is true of all internships. Everyone goes
through this stage. If that is what you want, it's a good
program, worth participating in.
Mentoring takes a lot of time to do well, more time than what it
would take to just do the project. It's a teacher role.
As to the organizations Google will work with ... They tend to
like umbrella organizations that encompass several projects.
One way for a small project to get in is to hook up with an
umbrella organization. Another way is to partner with a project
that gets in.
So Gnucap is part of GNU, and gets in that way.
So here's a standing offer ...... to geda, kicad, qucs and
others ..... A project that is a partnership between gnucap
and geda (or other) can be considered a gnucap project, and
therefore a GNU project in this context.
We need those partnerships!!
al.
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