Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Date: Mar 1, 2008, 00:31 UTC
Message-ID: <47C8A3D5.9050309@vilain.net>
In-Reply-To: <200802291304.16026.jnareb@gmail.com>

Jakub Narebski wrote:

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> I have some interesting ideas for GSoC, but unfortunately none (with 
> perhaps single exception) that I could mentor. So I think I'd list them 
> here for now, and later I'd add it to SoC2008Ideas page.
> 
> Here they are.

Great - I've put these all up on the wiki along with GitTorrent, and noted Julian Phillips as a possible mentor for the git-svnserver. I'll again point out that I wrote a plan for this effort at http://utsl.gen.nz/git/git-svnserver.txt - though that may be becoming more and more irrelevant.

Funnily enough, I'm actually a possible /student/ this year - I'm studying full-time this year - not in Computer Science, but hey that's not a requirement ;-), and perhaps finishing my GitTorrent implementation in my breaks would be a nice way to earn US$5k. It would be contrary to all of the "goals" of the programme¹, bar the first. I'd have to get the work done on a slightly different schedule because of the hemispherical term difference... but possible. Would this be an abuse of the programme. I leave the moral question open to the list; I can easily find paid contracting work over the time anyway. But this would be *fun* :-)

Sam.

¹ http://code.google.com/soc/2008/faqs.html#0.1_goals