Google Summer of Code 2011

[Thomas Adam]

Hi all,

Last year I was unsuccessful in applying for the GSoC deadline. This year,
I might improve upon that, assuming there's interest from folks here.

As per last year, the usual GSoC guidelines are quite clear:

http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2011/faqs#mentor_apply

I am willing to act as the complete go-between and do all of the work -- but
yet again there's the issue of a second mentor should I pop my clogs or
something, so I don't think this is even feasible unless someone else is
brave enough to act in that role, albeit likely redundant.

Really, the same ideas as last year apply still:

http://www.mail-archive.com/fvwm-***@fvwm.org/msg00715.html

So please read that thread for the proposed ideas.

If anyone's interested -- albeit as a mentor or someone thinking of working
on this over the summer (assuming if google even say "yes" to us), it'd be
nice to hear from you.

-- Thomas Adam

--
"Deep in my heart I wish I was wrong. But deep in my heart I know I am
not." -- Morrissey ("Girl Least Likely To" -- off of Viva Hate.)

[Thomas Adam]

On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 10:25:41AM +0100, Hans Voss wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 20:27, Thomas Adam <***@fvwm.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Last year I was unsuccessful in applying for the GSoC deadline. This year,
> > I might improve upon that, assuming there's interest from folks here.
> >
> > As per last year, the usual GSoC guidelines are quite clear:
> >
> >
> > http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2011/faqs#mentor_apply
> >
> > I am willing to act as the complete go-between and do all of the work --
> > but
> > yet again there's the issue of a second mentor should I pop my clogs or
> > something, so I don't think this is even feasible unless someone else is
> > brave enough to act in that role, albeit likely redundant.
> >
> Thomas, can you give a brief description of what your "understudy" needs to
> know (level of in-depth knowlegde of fvwm and other skills), besides being a
> good enough mentor to somebody?

Understudy's the wrong word. Like any student, a mentor would need some
knowledge of the following:

* C
* XLib

C is the more important one. Knowledge of XLib is desirable but likely not
going to happen as it's pretty arcane by most people's standards.

-- Thomas Adam

--
"Deep in my heart I wish I was wrong. But deep in my heart I know I am
not." -- Morrissey ("Girl Least Likely To" -- off of Viva Hate.)

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

Oops, sorry folks; I let that HTML garbage slip through by mistake.

- J<

[Hans Voss]

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 20:27, Thomas Adam <***@fvwm.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Last year I was unsuccessful in applying for the GSoC deadline. This year,
> I might improve upon that, assuming there's interest from folks here.
>
> As per last year, the usual GSoC guidelines are quite clear:
>
>
> http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2011/faqs#mentor_apply
>
> I am willing to act as the complete go-between and do all of the work --
> but
> yet again there's the issue of a second mentor should I pop my clogs or
> something, so I don't think this is even feasible unless someone else is
> brave enough to act in that role, albeit likely redundant.
>
> Thomas, can you give a brief description of what your "understudy" needs to
know (level of in-depth knowlegde of fvwm and other skills), besides being a
good enough mentor to somebody?


> Really, the same ideas as last year apply still:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/fvwm-***@fvwm.org/msg00715.html
>
> So please read that thread for the proposed ideas.
>
> If anyone's interested -- albeit as a mentor or someone thinking of working
> on this over the summer (assuming if google even say "yes" to us), it'd be
> nice to hear from you.
>
> -- Thomas Adam
>
> --
> "Deep in my heart I wish I was wrong. But deep in my heart I know I am
> not." -- Morrissey ("Girl Least Likely To" -- off of Viva Hate.)
>
>


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[Thomas Adam]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 07:27:31PM +0000, Thomas Adam wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Last year I was unsuccessful in applying for the GSoC deadline. This year,
> I might improve upon that, assuming there's interest from folks here.

The deadline for submissions is Friday 11th March, so I would need to know
by end of tomorrow at the absolute latest so I can have time to prepare
something.

But given the response so far, maybe it's just the wrong time for FVWM to be
considering this.

So until next year...

-- Thomas Adam

[Thomas Funk]

>On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 07:27:31PM +0000, Thomas Adam wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Last year I was unsuccessful in applying for the GSoC deadline. This year,
>> I might improve upon that, assuming there's interest from folks here.
>
>The deadline for submissions is Friday 11th March, so I would need to know
>by end of tomorrow at the absolute latest so I can have time to prepare
>something.
>
>But given the response so far, maybe it's just the wrong time for FVWM to be
>considering this.
>
>So until next year...
... and, perhaps earlier if possible. So that projects could be discuss and people can check if they have time.
That would be great.

Regards,
Thomas

[Jason Timrod]

--- On Wed, 3/9/11, Thomas Funk <***@web.de> wrote:

> From: Thomas Funk <***@web.de>
> Subject: Re: FVWM: Google Summer of Code 2011
> To: ***@fvwm.org, fvwm-***@fvwm.org
> Date: Wednesday, March 9, 2011, 10:34 AM
>
> >On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 07:27:31PM +0000, Thomas Adam
> wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Last year I was unsuccessful in applying for the
> GSoC deadline.  This year,
> >> I might improve upon that, assuming there's
> interest from folks here.
> >
> >The deadline for submissions is Friday 11th March, so I
> would need to know
> >by end of tomorrow at the absolute latest so I can have
> time to prepare
> >something.
> >
> >But given the response so far, maybe it's just the
> wrong time for FVWM to be
> >considering this.
> >
> >So until next year...
> ... and, perhaps earlier if possible. So that projects
> could be discuss and people can check if they have time.
> That would be great.

yes - i think prior warning is a very important thing here. what happened this year, precisely? is there anything we can learn for next year? why was this so late?

- JT

[Viktor Griph]

2011/3/9 Thomas Adam <***@fvwm.org>:
> On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 07:27:31PM +0000, Thomas Adam wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Last year I was unsuccessful in applying for the GSoC deadline.  This year,
>> I might improve upon that, assuming there's interest from folks here.
>
> The deadline for submissions is Friday 11th March, so I would need to know
> by end of tomorrow at the absolute latest so I can have time to prepare
> something.
>
> But given the response so far, maybe it's just the wrong time for FVWM to be
> considering this.

I hope to get back into workng actively on fvwm, but I don't want
tocomitt as a mentor before I know that I have the time. Maybe next
year.

/Viktor