[Openicc] 2008 Google SoC preparations

[Hal V. Engel]

On Sunday 02 March 2008 03:18:21 you wrote:
> Hello Hal,
>
> do you have plans to collaborate this year as OpenICC organisation again?
> Who else should be invited?
>
> kind regards
> Kai-Uwe

Kai-Uwe,

I would like to participate and my student from last year has been asking me 
about this and is also interested.

I am not sure who else should/could be involved.  Last year we had a fairly 
good cross section of projects but perhaps we can expand that this year.   I 
think we just need to get the wiki page up and let people start adding stuff.  
We can always trim it back if we need to but I don't think this will be an 
issue.

Also perhaps we could get someone from one or more of the DE projects to be 
part of getting Oyranos in a position to be usable for the DEs and perhaps 
even implement a prototype DE implementation of this functionality. 

I also think we need to talk about what should be on the wiki page.  One of 
the issues we ran into last year was that some students seemed to pink 
projects that were clearly over their heads.  So I think that we need to have 
info in these project entries that indicates what education/experience level 
is needed for each project.  That way we shouldn't have lower division 
undergrads applying for projects that really are post graduate level.

I also think we need to have a section to provide some guidance to students 
concerning our expectations on the applications and the application process.  
Perhaps we can reduce the number of copy and paste type applications and get 
more applications that can be seriously considered.   The same thing also 
applies to expectations for the period between students being selected and 
the beginning of the actual project work.

I was also thinking that perhaps I could arrange to speak at some computer 
science classes at the local college and perhaps get more students to put in 
proposals as well.  If everyone did that we should see a significant increase 
in student applications and that means more slots from Google as well as more 
options for us to choose from.

Hal


>
> Am 01.03.08, 10:34 +0100 schrieb Kai-Uwe Behrmann:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Google anounced this years GSoC programm:
> > http://code.google.com/soc/2008
> >
> > The last years content could be used as a base:
> > http://freedesktop.org/wiki/OpenIccForGoogleSoC2007
> > The content can be moved to a new 2008 page.
> >
> > Who likes to help with?
> > Who likes to participate?
> >
> > Start for organisations is 3th of march.
> >
> >
> > kind regards
> > Kai-Uwe Behrmann
> > --
> > developing for colour management
> > www.behrmann.name + www.oyranos.org