X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Sender: qpaz To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: [geda-user] Google Summer of Code 2016 From: "al davis (ad252 AT freeelectron DOT net) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 12:37:53 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201507141237.53614.ad252@freeelectron.net> Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com 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.