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- Subject: Re: [eigen] Google Summer of Code
- From: Stephen McCracken <stevemcc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 11:19:56 -0700
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I understand your point of view here. But consider that you are also in competition with other open-source projects for manpower, and ignoring GSOC is a disadvantage. For example, I'm looking for a good summer project, but I'm basically agnostic about whether it's Eigen or SciPy or something else. An extra USD $5k and GSOC cred could definitely tip the scales for me :)
--Steve
On Mar 6, 2010, at 10:45 AM, Benoit Jacob wrote:
> ok, apparently we had until March 8, this monday... but i dont have
> time to prepare the paperwork and I won't have time to mentor
> anyone... and I believe that Gael and Hauke are busy too. It's not
> necessarily a big problem though: we already have a very healthy flow
> of new contributors. Our real challenge is to turn new contributors
> into long term core contributors, but GSOC doesn't help with that.
> I've been a mentor in the past for a successful student who became a
> core contributor to the project in question (not Eigen) and I've
> always thought that the GSOC didn't make a huge difference since this
> guy was so motivated that he'd done that anyway.
>
> Benoit
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> 2010/3/3 Stephen McCracken <stevemcc@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Apparently there is no need to register separately: you just need to submit an application by March 12. See the links below for more details:
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>> Mentoring Organizations FAQs (http://j.mp/9bvQuv)
>> Notes on Organizations Selection Criteria (http://j.mp/ajfEU2)
>> AdviceForMentors Wiki (http://j.mp/bdsU6r)
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>> On Mar 3, 2010, at 8:38 PM, Benoit Jacob wrote:
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>>> We haven't even registered _as_ a mentoring organization :) Perhaps next year.
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>>> Benoit
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>>> 2010/3/3 Stephen McCracken <stevemcc@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>> Hello Eigen folks,
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>>>> Does the Eigen project plan to offer any Google Summer of Code projects this year? Google will be accepting applications from "mentoring organizations" during March 8-12 (see http://socghop.appspot.com/).
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>>>> --Steve
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