Re: Getting Ensimag students to work on Git for a few weeks

> Hi,
>
> I'd like to propose a kind of mini-google summer of code to the
> students of the the school where I teach, i.e. Ensimag, France
> ( http://ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr/ ). In short, this means having a few
> students working for Git for a month at no cost ;-).
>
> Currently, the students have an end-of-year project (in equivalent of
> master 1) with the choice between many subjects, some of them being
> somehow "real-life" (i.e. actually usefull things), and other being
> artificial (i.e. enjoy doing it, and throw it away afterwards).
>
> This year, I'd like to propose a subject "contribution to an existing
> free software", and since the one I know best currently is Git, this
> would take the form of "contribution to the Git project". I'd see the
> practical organization a bit like the google summer of code: chose a
> feature (the GSoC proposals on the wiki can be a good source of
> inspiration), and implement it with the goal of being eventually
> merged upstream. There would be no money involved, but the students
> get a grade at the end. I would anyway follow the work of the
> students, but a co-mentoring from a Git expert would be great.
>
> The students work full-time for about 3 weeks (May 20th to June 16th),
> and are grouped by teams of 2 to 4 students. Given my bandwidth, I
> plan to propose only one group of 4 students this year, but we may
> scale up later, who knows.
>
> We have plenty of time before this starts, but I'm just sending this
> email to get your feeling on it.
>
> Any opinion? Do you like the idea?