On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:55:26 +0100, stephane ducasse wrote:

> I like your vision.
> Yes I would like to have really simpler projects with concrete impact.
> 	- improving the shadowing report in the compiler
> 	- improving code formatting
> 	- GTK support (a smart student here would like to work on that).

I bet one (1.-) CHF that GTK support will not be included in the next  
Squeak release, not counting 3.10, not talking about an optional package.

/Klaus

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> On Mar 2, 2008, at 11:04 PM, giovanni wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> in no more than two weeks, the 2008 edition of the Google Summer of  
>> Code will
>> start. It has been brought to my attention that I never sent a final  
>> report
>> for last year's edition, so here it is.
>>
>> Last year we partecipated in the Summer of Code with five students:  
>> Damien
>> Cassou, Mathieu Suen, Jerome Chaveau, Ben Schroeder, and Oleg Korsak.  
>> You can
>> learn more about their projects by visiting the Summer of Squeak blog,  
>> at
>> http://blog.summer.squeak.org/ . All the five students completed their
>> projects, and were paid in full by Google. Of the five projects, only  
>> one
>> (the New Compiler project by Mathieu Suen) is still being worked on.  
>> Damien
>> has stopped working on Monticello 2, but Colin has remused the work on  
>> that,
>> even though he's not using Damien's code. I have no news about the other
>> three projects. Guys, would you mind sending a quick status report?
>>
>> For their effort, we received 2500 USD, which are currently in my  
>> current
>> account. My apologies for not having sent them to Esug yet, but the  
>> cheque
>> from Google arrived while I was moving to London, so after putting it  
>> into my
>> account, I kinda set it aside. I'll wire the money to the Esug treasurer
>> asap.
>>
>> To sum up, here are the positives and negatives for last year's SoC:
>>
>> Positives
>> - Five students got to be paid for their work, and we got paid for  
>> mentoring
>> them, too.
>> - We got lots of visibility
>>
>> Negatives
>> - None of the projects, except one, are still being worked on
>> - With the possible exception of the new compiler project, the SoC  
>> projects
>> did not have any impact on the main Squeak image.
>>
>> This brings us to the other part of my message, which is the 2008  
>> edition of
>> the Summer of Code. Unless the board decides otherwise, I'm willing to  
>> lead
>> the SoC team to apply and possibly partecipate in this year's SoC. In
>> comparison to last year's effort, I propose two changes:
>>
>> - we apply as "Squeak Foundation" instead of simply "Squeak". This would
>> allow us to include other projects such as Seaside, Croquet etc more  
>> easily.
>> - we choose more "down to earth" projects that have a bigger  
>> possibility of
>> being included in the software we release (the main Squeak image,  
>> Seaside,
>> Croquet etc).
>>
>> There are also some more modifications which I'll propose on the SoC  
>> mailing
>> list.
>>
>> As usual, comments and flames are welcome.
>>
>>        Ciao,
>>
>>                Giovanni
>>
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