[Tcl-soc2008] GSoC slot for student talks at EuroTcl conference

[Daniel A. S. <da...@us...>]

Dear student Tclers,

the organizers of the EuroTcl conference (6-7 June in Strasbourg)
	http://www.eurotcl.org/
have agreed to my proposal to reserve a 1 hour slot at the conference  
to share among GSoC students to talk about their projects. I have  
been asked to give a brief introduction about GSoC, and maybe about  
the projects for which no student is present.

With the coding period starting on 26 May, you clearly won't have  
done much coding yet to talk about, but I think a brief (~10 mins)  
introduction of your project and how you plan to attack it would  
still be very valuable to the audience as well as to yourselves.
Obviously attending the other sessions at the conference and meeting  
fellow Tclers and maybe some mentors should also be very useful...

If you can manage the travel and can get away at that time, I would  
strongly encourage you to consider attending the conference and  
participating in the GSoC session.
Obviously this will be of most interest to European students; do note  
that the organizers of the US Tcl conference in October have stated  
that they will accept presentations about completed GSoC projects in  
the technical track, you might find giving a full presentation at the  
end of GSoC more interesting. OTOH travel to the US will be more  
expensive for Europeans of course (and Remigiusz tells me that  
obtaining a US visa might be problematic for Polish students at least).

If you would like to attend, please register at the site above  
(registration is free without meals, or 100 EUR with meals included)  
and let me know by 21 May if you would like to participate in the  
GSoC session.

Cheers,

Daniel

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** Daniel A. Steffen                   **
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