[Libreoffice] Promoting LibO to Vietnamese students by completing easy hacks

[Nguyen Vu Hung (KiEi)]

Hello Cedric Bosdonnat et al,

(2011/04/19 14:20), Cedric Bosdonnat wrote:
> Hello Vu Hung,
>
> On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 07:42 +0700, Nguyen Vu Hung (KiEi) wrote:
>> "Mùa hè sáng tạo" (MHST 2010)[1] works much like
>> "(Google) Summer of Code" held among Vietnamese and for Vietnamese
>> students.
>>
>> The reason we have our own version of Gsoc in Vietnam is that
>> students' English
>> skill is not so good.
> I love this kind of ideas! but we need to checkout how to get that
> project started.
>
Because I am working with MHST for the second year as a mentor/admin
so I'd say joining it is too easy (and much looser than Gsoc)

As for the regulation of MHST,
I propose that I will firstly register LibO team as a mentor; and I will 
take care
of the Vietnam side.

Some important deadlines:

2011/04/30: Deadline for mentor's (and his/her ideas) registration.
2011/05/01 - 2011/05/29: (team of) students' proposal registration
2011/05/30 - 2011/06/05: Announce the list of selected teams and students
2011/06/06 - 2011/09/04: Coding :)

MHST 2011 Information
http://www.olp.vn/mhst/thong-tin

Prizes
http://www.olp.vn/mhst/giai-thuong

Registration
http://www.olp.vn/mhst/dang-ky

List of MHST ideas
http://www.olp.vn/mhst/danh-sach-y-tuong

Guidelines
http://www.olp.vn/mhst/huong-dan

>> As to promote LibO *development* in Vietnam, I would like to ask
>> developers at LibO become a technical co-mentors, and myself will
>> be a co-mentor who bridges the gaps between you and the student(s).
> No problem for me to co-mentor on the Writer side. I think we would
> achieve better results if the other - vietnamese - mentor is a developer
> and not just a translator, but maybe that's what you planned already.
Yes, that's what I have planned.
The developers are the mentors and I step back as the one who fill the 
gaps between
the developers and the students.

>> I will find some students joining the project.
> Sure, you need to handle the MHST admin as we can't do it in vietnamese.
Don't worry, I've talked to other MHST admins and they have given us a +1.

> Feel free to ping either Fridrich, thorsten or myself if you have
> questions as we all were GSoc admins at a point of time.
>
>> Regarding the topics, is that OK if we pick some easy hacks[2][3]
>> on Gsoc idea page?
> Sure, but don't go too quickly with the tasks from the GSoc as the
> students aren't selected yet.
I didn't know that :) Anyway, the deadline for picking an idea is 2011/04/30

> It's better to tell the students to be
> careful that some of  those projects may already have been picked. WRT
> the EasyHacks, tasks are sorted by difficulty and students should pick
> tasks in section 6 - Programming tasks.
I see. Probably you have to fill some more programming tasks.

My concern is, can we allocate the right developer as the mentor for a 
programming task?

Please feel free to ask if you have any questions.
>> Please get back to me.
> Done :D
>
> I wish we could launch a successful project with students in vietnam
> thanks to you.
>
My pleasure

Nguyen Vu Hung


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