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?