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[Ramana Venkata <idlike2dream@xxxxxxxxx>]

I exactly agree with you Nikos. I think you should look at  Sympy GSoC
Application<https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/gsoc-2014-organization-application>
They
have been participating in GSoC from past 5 years or so you can find more
details in the link given.


On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 1:59 AM, Nikos Vasilakis <nikos.ailo@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Thanks for reminding us Raphael,
>
> First, did we get any feedback last year? If we did, we should definitely
> work towards this direction.
>
> I am not an expert in GSoC applications, but my feeling is that we have
> *many* and *small* targets. Although important, most of the targets in the
> "idea page" have a scope of two weeks (full-time work). My understanding
> from other project's applications (e.g., MINIX) is that the focus should be
> 3+ months of work (and students even start before GSoC).
>
> At the same time, provided that we have 2-3 such tasks, we need to show
>  why mentorship is *critical*. For instance, most of the proposed ideas
> don't need any mentoring (provided a student is willing to code) and the
> ones that need mentorship (e.g., Android idea) have a concrete plan. In
> particular, I would expect to see a couple of sentences of (1) why the
> mini-project the student is tackling is hard (2) how is the mentor going to
> alleviate many of these with the right guidance (3) why the project is
> important. For instance, what are the possible obstacles one is going to
> face, and how can we guide the student to avoid these as much as possible?
> We need to actually flesh out the details for whatever we are proposing!
>
> Obviously, no one expects us to foresee the future! What we need to show
> is that we have put *considerable* effort in planning and that we will make
> the most out of both the student's and the mentor's time. At the same time,
> we are showing that some of these cannot be done any other way (or would
> take something equivalent of a year of someone's working less than
> part-time with no guidance!). As an added value, we could call out
> potentially *non-obvious* benefits in the FOSS community. By succeeding
> there, what do we enable?
>
> Just to give an example, one idea of this level would be the Time Machine
> (for lack of a better name). It is a considerable effort, it *requires*
> mentoring, it will benefit the whole FOSS community, it may integrate with
> cloud services (e.g., Google's own servers) and it's painfully missing. Of
> course, this is only an example, but there are other ideas of this level.
>
> Let's start working early on this!
>
> Nikos
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Mario Daniel Ruiz Saavedra <
> desiderantes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> The ideas behind Chromecast are not new, so maybe you can extend or
>> generalize that support, something like a libbroadcast
>>
>> Enviado desde Yahoo Mail en Android<https://mx.overview.mail.yahoo.com/mobile/?.src=Android>
>>
>>  ------------------------------
>> * From: * Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
>> * To: * Raphael Isemann <teemperor@xxxxxxxxx>;
>> * Cc: * elementary-dev-community <
>> elementary-dev-community@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
>> * Subject: * Re: [Elementary-dev-community] GSoC (again)
>> * Sent: * Tue, Feb 4, 2014 7:14:12 PM
>>
>>   One interesting idea might be adding Chromecast support to Music,
>> Photos, and Audience and/or creating a libchromecast (if such a thing
>> doesn't already exist)
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Daniel Foré
>> elementaryos.org
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Raphael Isemann <teemperor@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everybody,
>>>
>>> Google started accepting applications for GSoC today and i wanted to
>>> get some feedback if there is interest in participating (in the
>>> community and in the team)?
>>>
>>> For those we are new, we already applied last year but we weren't
>>> accepted. I bring the topic up as we got a lot of media coverage since
>>> the Luna-release and it's probably worth another try.
>>>
>>> Deadline is next Friday and i'm currently stuck in exams till this
>>> friday, so don't expect a lot of input from my side in the next three
>>> days. I'll be back full-time on Saturday/Sunday.
>>>
>>> - Raphael Isemann
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> Paperwork from last work:
>>> * Our letter of application from last year that is currently not open
>>> for everyone. Feel free to drop a mail if you want to take a look at
>>> it [1]
>>>
>>> * Ideas page from last year [2]
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-4l33Ln7EZoAEjLF8wsvqiNU6SDOcM9BW9R2dh62thg/edit?usp=sharing
>>>
>>> [2]
>>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Nv_KzCUjfQIP0C6n593LPBE1gkCuNNI1SCO7vvw8njw/edit
>>>
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Venkata Ramana K.
Junior Undergraduate,
Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore, India.