Re: [AD] Any Allegro interest in GSoC 2011?

[Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On January 24, 2011, Elias Pschernig wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 15:16 -0800, scott mc wrote:
> > I've noticed that Allegro hasn't been part of Google Summer of Code.
> > Have you ever applied or thought about applying?  Google announced
> > earlier today that they are going to have GSoC again this year:
> > http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2011/01/google-summer-of-code-annou
> > nced-at-lca.html Here's their FAQ:
> > http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2011/
> > faqs I attended the Google Summer of Code mentor summit representing
> > Haiku in 2010 and it sounded like they were looking to expand the
> > program in 2011, perhaps doubling the size, but after discussion it
> > seemed the consensus was that the program could expand by 20-30% or so
> > and still get decent quality projects from the students.  I'm not sure
> > how much if any Google has decided to expand it or not.  In 2010 I think
> > there were 150 orgs that participated, with 300-400 applying.
> 
> Our problem in previous years was that we had no mentor volunteers nor
> any students interested in it. Being a mentor is a lot of work after all
> - need to come up with possible ideas and formulate them, read through
> all the google stuff, with various deadlines and so on and then finally
> look after the student.
> 
> Anyway, if anyone wants to be a GSoC mentor for Allegro or has an idea
> what to work on as a student, there won't be any opposition from us :)

If I see any interest in it from students I may be interested in co-mentoring 
with someone else.

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Thomas Fjellstrom
tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx