[maemo-developers] Maemo not a List of Mentoring Organizations Participating in Google Summer of Code 2008

[From: Edgar Lakis]

I agree with Quim.

It is little benefit if participation is non active. And, probably there
were no serious intents for student participation this year, anyway. At
least I was unable to find any related discussion, and this thread hasn't
got attention also. In such conditions, participation of maemo would be
wasting of mentors' time (and project slots, globally).

Initiative should come from prospective participants (students), I think. So
we could spread the general idea about SoC in maemo comunity, early next
year (around January). If students are active and there are any promising
ideas, there would be little problems to find mentors. Moreover mentors
would know in advance how many good project there are, and how many project
slots to ask from Google.


Edgar


On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Quim Gil <quim.gil at nokia.com> wrote:

>
>
> ext Darius Jack wrote:
> > Maemo not a List of Mentoring Organizations Participating in Google
> > Summer of Code 2008
> >
> > why ?
>
> The useful question is to ask why should maemo be there, and what
> elements do we need to be there. With a mixed success last year, without
> much initiative nor demand in the maemo community, I personally find it
> normal that we are not there.
>
> It's a bit of a pity but not the end of the world. Maybe you want to
> push for this next year?
>
> Other thoughts?
>
> Quim
>
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