Re: [Monotone-devel] Summer of Code 2007

[Derek Scherger]

Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> In particular:
>   -- Is anyone up to being backup administrator (in case I get eaten
>      by a grue)?

Possibly, what's involved?

> 
>   -- Who is willing to be a mentor?  This basically means helping read
>      student apps and potentially being a main point of contact for a
>      student.  (It also means you can't apply as a student.)

You can throw my name into the hat for this one.

>   -- We need a list of project ideas for students to apply under.
>      (FWIW, my feeling at this point is that these should _not_
>      necessarily be giant, solution-to-everything projects, but more
>      the sort of thing that we might expect to complete in a week or
>      two of solid hacking.)  I created a totally stub page on the
>      wiki:
>         http://venge.net/mtn-wiki/SummerOfCode2007
>      This is the biggest thing to work on.

I threw a few more ideas up there... the svn importer was also one I had
been thinking of.

> 
>   -- We should perhaps think about explicit questions to ask
>      applicants when they are applying -- to avoid the problem where
>      it is just impossible to tell from their app whether they are
>      clueful or not.

Yeah, agreed. We should also try a bit harder to make sure that we
interact with students more frequently, in the hopes that we don't lose
anyone this year.


Cheers,
Derek