GSoC 2012

[Matt Dew]

On 02/07/2012 12:22 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> On 02/ 7/12 11:07 AM, Stéphane Marchesin wrote:
>> That sounds like a great idea. Over the last couple years, we've had
>> an increasing number of students who were more interested in money
>> than in the actual technical challenge and the open source aspect.
>> Such students will require lots of mentoring, do a sloppy job, and
>> then disappear after the summer. For us (X.Org) it's a net loss
>> because we invest mentoring time. Recruiting passionate students in
>> the universities would help us avoid this problem.

My efforts this year are definitely on getting the good students from 
the unis. Unfortunately there are LOTS of internships in this area so 
there is a lot of competition for the good ones.   Any employers reading 
this who want me to mention they specifically look for things like GSoC 
when hiring?   (Chase this comes from talking with you.)


>>
>> Along the same lines I'm thinking about having a policy of "you must
>> have at least one accepted patch to one of the freedesktop repos to be
>> a SoC student" this year.
>
> That's an interesting idea, and shouldn't be too hard a burden to bear,
> especially if we've got a set of "bite size" bugs/fixes identified they
> can try tackling, like the ones on
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=love&resolution=---
>
> We should also look at the tips Donnie shared from the Gentoo project
> GSoC experience:
>
> http://www.slideshare.net/dberkholz/succeeding-in-the-google-summer-of-code-as-a-large-project
>
> http://fosdem.org/2012/schedule/event/succeeding_gsoc

Thanks for the links.

>
> (Unfortunately, I don't know if that was one of the FOSDEM rooms being
> recorded this year, but fortunately, we know how to find Donnie to pick
> his brain directly as needed.)
>