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

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On Sat Apr 7, 2012, scottmc wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Thomas Fjellstrom
> 
> <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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-an
> >> > nou nced-at-lca.html Here's their FAQ:
> >> > http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc20
> >> > 11/ 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.
> > 
> > --
> > Thomas Fjellstrom
> > tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx
> 
> I dug up this old thread, as we put on the Haiku GSoC 2012 possible
> project list to have a student bring the Haiku Allegro port up to 5.x.
>  We have a student who has submitted a proposal to do this project.
> So I am here now asking if there's anyone who is familiar with the
> Allegro code base, who who be willing to co-mentor this project with a
> Haiku mentor?  We had a similar project last summer to bring the Haiku
> SDL2.0 port up to date and that student passed.  The student who
> submitted the Allegro proposal may or may not make the cut, just
> looking to see if we can get a co-mentor involved to help review the
> proposal.

Is it possible to make this list the co-mentor? I can't answer for anyone 
else, but I don't know if I can guarantee all the time needed to help mentor. 
But if a few of us help out? I don't see why not.

> -scottmc
> 
> (Scott McCreary from Haiku and HaikuPorts.)
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