[Openicc] 2009 Google SoC preparations

[Hal V. Engel]

On Wednesday 11 March 2009 08:21:06 am Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:
> Am 11.03.09, 17:57 +0300 schrieb Alexandre Prokoudine:
> > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:
> >> Ideas, Mentors and supporters are welcome.
> >
> > And students are more than just welcome :)
>
> Not yet, OpenICC has first to apply as "organisation" to the program
> before we seriously can talk to students regarding GSoC.
>
> Kai-Uwe
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Actually I feel that the sooner we have students working with us the better 
even at this early stage of the process.  Both students last year started 
communicating with us, one using this email list and the other in private 
emails to me, before the GSoC process started.  And the year before one of our 
students was in contact with me very early in the process (before OpenICC had 
been selected but after we had applied).  I think this is one of the reasons 
that we have been so successful with our projects over the last two years.  
Also the proposals that we get from students who start early are of much 
higher quality in most cases and the extra time results in a better working 
relationship with the student IMO.   Doing these projects requires a 
significant commitment from both the mentors and the students to be successful 
and the sooner this starts the better.

Kai-Uwe took part in the Open Printing meeting on Monday and Till suggested 
that we should also include CM related projects in their list of possible 
projects just in case OpenICC is not selected again.  This is a good idea and 
it could result in additional CM projects on our plate even if some of them 
are technically Open Printing projects.

Hal