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Re: [RFH] hackday and GSoC topic suggestions

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Feb 13, 2014, 08:50 UTC
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On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 10:51:54AM +0100, Matthieu Moy wrote:
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> > Some of Matthieu's students worked on it a few years ago but didn't finish.
> 
> Right. There was still quite some work to do, but this is most likely
> too small for a GSoC project. But that could be a part of it. I'm not
> sure how google welcomes GSoC projects made of multiple small tasks, but
> my experience with students is that it's much better than a single (too)
> big task, and I think that was the general feeling on this list when we
> discussed it last year.

I think Google leaves it up to us to decide. I'd be OK with a project made of multiple small tasks, as I think it would be an interesting experiment. I'd rather not do all of them like that, though. And bonus points if they are on a theme that will let the student use the ramp-up time from one for another.

-Peff
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