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

[From: Darius Jack]

Noop.
Completely wrong.
Just read more about Google Summer of Code from
http://code.google.com/soc/2008/
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All participating mentoring organizations for 2008 have provided  additional information for their would-be students, including a list of  sample project ideas. 
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Being listed as a mentoring organization has nothing to do with past interest of students in activities of a mentoring organization in-spe,
as you firstly get listed as a mentoring organization and than
attract potential students.
$4,500 stipend offered by Google is great chance for any student and much more than N810 apiece.

What Google said:
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 If you find you have a great idea  to improve one of the projects you see listed, why not start  working on it now?
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You are right, Google Summer of Code attracts more mentors than students
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Google Summer of Code 2008 is on! Over the past three  years, the program has brought together over 1500 students and  2000 mentors from 90 countries worldwide, all for the love of  code. We look forward to welcoming more new contributors and  projects this year.
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But there is a chance to chan ge things for the better and discuss that issue with Google.
On the other hand Google with Google Maps application is first-class and first hand competitor to Nokia Tablet as a navigation device.

Anyway, attracting students to Maemo is attracting new customers to buy more N810s, so, in our hard times on Wall Street, Nokia not Maemo, should be interested in promotion of its great Nokia Tablet in any form of promotion, provided for free.

Lost chance is lost chance 
and any stipend granted by Google to a prospective student is lost forever.

Darius



Edgar Lakis <edgar.lakis at gmail.com> wrote: 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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