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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">SoC mentor? Read this through!</FONT>
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<P><A HREF="http://maemo.org/maemowiki/GoogleSoC2007"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://maemo.org/maemowiki/GoogleSoC2007</FONT></U></A><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> updated with the latest information. </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">We have received some projects after the deadline, I believe that redirected from other projects or Google's pool. I have marked two as uneligible since they contained no project proposals, only introduction of students willing to help (they have been pointed to maemo.org mailing lists and garage projects, where a lot of help is needed). We have some proposals that seem to overlap or be very similar, around location and PC-device transfers. I'd say the average quality of the proposals are good, some students have put a lot of effort in them already.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The list of projects and some comments, in no special order.</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">- Dasher via Maemo Device as Keyboard for PC</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">This one might drop if it's confirmed that a Dasher port already exists. Any links?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">-</FONT> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">IMAP-related enhancements to osso-email </FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">We have told this student that in fact most of the development hotness is currently happening around </FONT><A HREF="http://modest.garage.maemo.org/"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">http://modest.garage.maemo.org/</FONT></U></A><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> , inviting him to refactor his proposal accordingly.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">- Japanese/Chinese handwriting recognition on Maemo </FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">This student requested mentorship to Makoto Sugano, who is Nokia employee but also maintainer in his free time of </FONT><A HREF="https://garage.maemo.org/projects/maemocjk/"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">https://garage.maemo.org/projects/maemocjk/</FONT></U></A><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">. The project looks good and it's well formulated. AFAIK there are no other mentors able to even read basic Chinese/Japanese. Makoto would be happy mentoring this project. Any objections? Note that Makoto's job in Nokia has nothing to do with Chinese/Japanese implementation or any kind of L10n/i18n.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">- Last.fm radio player </FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Xan (Nokia employee and Last.fm fan) has requested mentorship of this project and I have reminded him the backup policy. If a community mentor wants to pick this one s/he will have preference. Otherwise we can keep Xan and then the rest of mentors value the appropiateness of the combo when ranking the project. The proposal itself is well formulated.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">- Improve the phoneME JVM, to integrate well with Maemo and GPE enviroments </FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">- Geolocation-based Transit Maps </FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">- 'Duality': Internet-based, PC-to-device-to-PC file transfer </FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">- Ocaml Maemo </FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">- </FONT><A HREF="file:///maemowiki/WiFi"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">WiFi</FONT></U></A><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">-based Localization </FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">- Application in Mono to synchronize gpe-calendar with google calendar </FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">- Easy wireless interaction of Maemo-devices and pc's </FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">- Smoove - Instant Desktop Migration Suite </FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">- Ruby Maemo Bindings </FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">- Placemarking program for Nokia 770 and N800 </FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">- DBAssistant - SQL Database builder and data entry </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">*** SoC MENTORS ***</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">NOW it's time to review the applications, rank them, and offer yourself to mentor your preferred. Deadline: this week (it can be done in 1-2 hours). </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Please post your comments in all the projects (public/private) unless you have really nothing to say. You should be active specially if you are applying as mentor of a project. As said in a previous email, we have approved all mentors without making any reliability check. But if you are not reliable to post some SoC comments it is reasonable to think that you might be not the perfect candidate for bigger SoC challenges. ;)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">We haven't discussed much the participation of the backup mentors in the comments and ranks. Is it worth to discuss now? </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I would say that it is good that you take part as well since you are experienced maemo developers. A way in between could be to let community mentors to push the preferred projects while concentrating the attention stopping the weakest options (duplicate work with existing projects, potential difficulties in the execution and so on). In practice this would mean that backup mentors wouldn't vote +4 and +2 as much as the rest of values (+1, -1, -2 and N/A). This is no strong policy and not even a strong recommendation, just a thought. Act according to your own beliefs. :) </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Quim</FONT>
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