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[Bertrand Rousseau <bertrand.rousseau@xxxxxxxxx>]

I mostly agree with Lionel's post. Some small remarks:

 - I agree with project ownership. Not suggesting a defined project
would certainly help having better project proposals. There are many
projects this year that just plainly lacks some insight. However, I
would still suggest some interesting path to follow (for those who
needs insipiration) and/or mention some of the current
issues/discussions we currently have in GTG (so that a proposed
project also fit our plans).

 - We should mention that there is also the GOPW program that offers
many mentoring possibilities, without the mandatory no coding
requirements. There are a lot of needs that are not specially
code-related (documentation, design, etc.), therefore the emphasis on
coding abilities matters actually more for GSoC than GOPW.

 - I fully agree with Lionel on the fact that a list of skills is
mostly useless. What I'm interested in is: did you understand what the
problem (what it *really* is)? do you have a plan? will you be able to
carry it on (if not completely, at least bootstrap it correcty!)?

Bertrand

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Lionel Dricot <ploum@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Le 19/04/12 13:16, Radina Matic a écrit :
>> Great post, Lionel! Interesting and useful... :)
>>
>> Would it be OK if I took out the main points and post them on the
>> GTG blog? Together with the link to your post, of course.
>>
>> Cheers, Radina
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 11:54, Lionel Dricot <ploum@xxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:ploum@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>> Maybe we could switch the technical part and talk about Summer of
>> Code.
>>
>> This year, GTG alone received 15 student proposals. I've even told
>> several students to not apply because they were too late anyway.
>>
>> Some proposals were great and it was a pitty to dismiss them.
>>
>> But, to be honnest, some proposals were simply not good enough.
>>
>> I've tried to give advice for next year here:
>> http://ploum.net/post/be-selected-student-for-soc
>>
>>
>> Le 19/04/12 09:27, Radina Matic a écrit :
>>> Hey guys/gals, anybody has a nice idea for the technical topic
>>> that we could put into this week's blog?
>>
>>> It could cover any of the items on the Recent Changes doc that
>>> Ricardo compiled, or some other concept or idea...
>>
>>> Izidor replied to a couple of comments on our Google+
>>> <https://plus.google.com/105207030598591212625/posts> page that
>>> could also be interesting (dynamic quickadd and server
>>> synchronization without any web interface). Anybody interested
>>> in elaborating these ideas...?
>>
>>> Let me know, R.
>>
>>> PS: I could try to jot something down, but it would not be so,
>>> well... technical... :(
>>
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Bertrand Rousseau