Re: [sahana-discuss] GSoC 2011

[gc <gih...@gm...>]

Hi

I would like to see Sahana OCR project in GSoC idea list this time as well.

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Michael Howden <mic...@gm...>wrote:

> Hey Pat,
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> Thanks for pointing this out!
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> Should we create a page for this:
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> http://wiki.sahanafoundation.org/doku.php/foundation:sahana_gsoc11
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> For some reason I don’t have privileges to do this…
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> I’ll put my hand up to help admin/mentor this program.
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> A couple of things that I think that we should consider
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> ·        In order to be considered for GSOC, students must submit a bug
> fix for the project first (perhaps one easy bug and one regular? Perhaps
> mentors for the projects can set bugs which they would like the students to
> be able to fix?). This will ensure that they have at least set up their
> development environment.
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+1, Good approach to filter out people who really interested and capable.

> ·        Mentors are responsible for reviewing & merging student code.
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·        Keep the scope of the projects small, but ensure that they are done
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+1, Really important fact. May be effective to define the scope by the
person who suggest the project idea, since students tends to put larger
scope in the proposal to get their proposal accepted. Also I would like to
highlight the timeline and milestones. They should be clearly achievable.


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> Some projects which I would like to see (for Eden).
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> ·        New UI Interface Design.
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> ·        Sync.
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> ·        Media Feed (
> http://eden.sahanafoundation.org/wiki/ProjectInformation#MediaFeed)
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> ·        Speed Optimisation & Performance Testing. This could be too vague
> / hard for GSOC, but the idea would be to create a set of performance
> metrics which could be tested against, and then attempt to make code changes
> to improve the results against these…
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> Cheers
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> Michael
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Regards,
Gihan