Re: [Lxde-list] LXDE GSoC: Call for Mentors and Students

[PCMan <pcm...@gm...>]

Post the ideas here
You hardly get anwsers on irc immediately because developers and users
live in quite different time zones. For example, I live in Taiwan and
here it's GMT + 8.

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Alexander Kuleshov
<kul...@gm...> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Mario Behling <mb...@ma...> wrote:
>> Hi Alexander,
>>
>> please add your ideas to the wiki. Seems like the server in Taiwan is
>> down at the moment. You can check existing ideas with google cache:
>> http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kmOoz-gL0DYJ:wiki.lxde.org/en/Google_Summer_of_Code_2010+/search%3Fhl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3DJA6%26rls%3Dcom.ubuntu:en-US:official%26q%3D%2Bsite:wiki.lxde.org%2Blxde%2Bgsoc&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=vn
>>
>> Secondly, please discuss ideas with devs in the LXDE channel:
>> irc.oftc.net #lxde
>>
>> You can apply starting from March 29 on the GSoC website.
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Mario
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Alexander Kuleshov
>> <kul...@gm...> wrote:
>>>>>> Mario Behling schrieb:
>>>>>> > Dear all,
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > we are in the preparation phase for the GSoC program.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > 1. MENTORS
>>>>>> > Right now, we need to form a team of mentors.
>>>>>> > a) We need primary mentors who can take care of students during the
>>>>>> > summer.
>>>>>> > b) We need backup mentors in case primary mentors are temporarily
>>>>>> > absent.
>>>>>> > Please reply to this email if you would be able to support the program
>>>>>> > with mentorship or know somebody who could be a mentor.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > 2. MORE IDEAS
>>>>>> > We need more ideas on the idea page. It would be good if we can give
>>>>>> > students some choices. Prospectus students should also add their ideas
>>>>>> > here, please: http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Google_Summer_of_Code_2010 .
>>>>>> > There is also an older page of LXDE to dos. Maybe you can get some
>>>>>> > ideas here as well: http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXDE_To_Do
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > 3. STUDENT APPLICATIONS
>>>>>> > Who is interested to apply as a student for LXDE? It would be a good
>>>>>> > idea to start discussing ideas on this list. Personally, it would be
>>>>>> > great if we could also support contributors, who have been already
>>>>>> > active in the LXDE community.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > 4. ALLOCATION OF STUDENT SLOTS
>>>>>> > Students slots will be allocated by Google according to the percentage
>>>>>> > of all applications to all projects in GSoC. This means the more
>>>>>> > applications we get, the more choice we have to take students in and
>>>>>> > the more students we can actually take in.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Since I don't have much time this summer due to my bachelor thesis I
>>>>>> normally wouldn't apply. But if the Mentors are choosing the students(?)
>>>>>> I could just apply to increase perceantage. What do you think?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > I am looking forward to your replies.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > All the best,
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Mario
>>>>
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>>> Hello,
>>> My name is Alexander Kuleshov. I am a student, developer. I am in the
>>> moment on the penultimate course by specialty Computer Science and
>>> Software engineering.
>>>
>>> Also I'm using LXDE on a daily basis in their work and studies. But,
>>> unfortunately, has not had to program something for LXDE due to lack
>>> of time (now all my free time takes my university research work), but
>>> ahead of me the whole summer free and I would like to help lxde GSoC
>>> project as well after him. Because i like LXDE and  it would provide
>>> for me a very valuable experience as the development of C /gtk+ maybe
>>> python and programming in general. At the moment, I have discovered
>>> some interesting ideas taken from that I would like to implement.
>>>
>>> Can I take part in GSoc participating in the development of LXDE? And
>>> what do I need to do?
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>
>
> I have a question. Image viewr GPicView included in the projects
> Google Summer of Code? I have a few ideas that can be implemented for
> him.
>
> p.s. in #lxde chanel all day nobody answers :(
>
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