organizing proposals
by Karsten Wade
We have quite a lot of proposals; I haven't been paying attention to
the category until a few days ago ...
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Summer_Coding_2010_proposals
... and it's about 30 proposals. (I'm still going through them and
fixing confusing bits, such as duplicate proposals.)
I started to organize the pre-review here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010_proposal_tracking
As it says on that page, this is all information that is in the public
_right_now_.
That page MUST NOT get populated with private mentor review data. If
we do use it to post any results from the private mentor discussions,
we'll review the data and changes first.
Sometime later today I am going to start posting to the
summer-coding-mentors list, after I go through the proposals and make
sure all mentors therein are on the list.
Thank you,
- Karsten
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9 years, 9 months
funded and unfunded projects [RFC]
by Karsten Wade
I have a proposal that in selecting proposals we do this:
1. Decide which proposals are worthy of taking if we had an endless
budget.
2. Order those proposals and fund the ones we think should have budget
right now.
3. The other proposals are unfunded but otherwise good enough to
proceed; offer to the students and mentors of those proposed
projects they can run the project for full credit but no pay.
We'd love to fund all the great projects people are proposing. Some
people are saying they'd love to work the project even if they don't
get funded. If they have a proposal that would get funded if we had
more budget, and they do the work, they should get full credit.
Credit means:
* Recognition as a participant who completed the program. The funding
is not referenced here, so the students can put it on their
CV/resume the same as if it were a funded project.
* Any materials we provide for students (t-shirt, certificate, etc.)
goes to the unfunded projects as well.
* Any media/publicity (student blog planet, press releases, etc.)
include all the students regardless if the project is funded or
unfunded.
This idea has been discussed amongst a few of us, and maybe there are
some parts of it on this list.
The mentors should have this guidance as they go in to proposal review
next week.
Thanks - Karsten
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9 years, 9 months
Some coding tests added to the wiki
by Toshio Kuratomi
Greetings all,
at the meeting today, we discussed having some a more formal page about
coding tests. Quaid put up a page to get us started and a few of us have
added tests for our specific projects.
Since I've had several interested students say that they don't know python
yet but think that they might be able to pick it up quickly, I wrote
a pretty ismple sample test:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_pre-qualifying_ideas#Write_a...
This test is not mandatory but if you have questions about whether you have
enough python skill to work on Coprs, I strongly encourage you to do this.
It will let you evaluate your ability to learn python with a simple real
world problem that exposes you to some of the technologies you'll use in
Copr.
-Toshio
9 years, 9 months
task run up
by Karsten Wade
The start of each meeting has been a review of the tasks from the
previous meeting, and there keep not being any tasks. Today it hit me
-- I've been using the wrong syntax to mark tasks in the log, so
meetbot didn't pull them out and line them up for me to review the
following week.
So I just went through the last four weeks of meeting logs and pulled
out this list of tasks. You see anything missing?
== no owner ==
* Build a stand-alone site that is a single entrance page, more
professional, at fedoraproject.org/summer-coding.
* Plan another round or two of searching for generic mentors
* Announce last 24 hours for ideas
* Close idea wiki pages (somehow)
* Alert students that we are one week away from deadline for their proposal
== adimania's ==
* Share and hang posters.
== jreznik's ==
* Share and hang posters.
== quaid's ==
* Start on the static framework for a stand-alone web page.
* Ask for help from websites and design teams on the stand-alone page.
* Write-up status of sponsorship search for summer-coding
* Fill private mentor list with currently known potential mentors so
we can begin discussions
* Remind everyone about how the public side of proposal discussions is
going to go
* Get confirmation from RHT Brno that they are going ahead with
running their local internships through FSC2010
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9 years, 9 months
