SoC April 2008

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14 discussions

freeCAD port to Croquet
by Aik-Siong Koh 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

At Matthew Fulmer's request, I am making my email to him below public. Aik-Siong Koh Matthew: Thank you for supporting Phua for this project. He is indeed excellent. I would like you to reconsider Chai whom I judge is very good. A score of -1 does not reflect his worth. Phua and Chai worked very well together on their final year project. Since you know Phua, can you contact Phua directly and get a real picture of Chai. Chai already has a job offer that is 30% above average for his class. But he will be doing Perl. I am hoping GSoc will give both Phua and Chai the visibility that companies like Qwaq will support them to do Smalltalk. All the best, Aik-Siong Koh

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Squeak Mentor Summit?
by Ken Causey 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

It seems to me that we really need to get communication between mentors bootstarted. Can we start meeting virtually? A handful of us already hang out fairly regularly on #squeak (and some other channels) on irc.freenode.net. If some people can't use IRC perhaps we can use Skype or some other technology. Due to timezone issues I suspect just one meeting time won't cut it, so perhaps we should have several at different times of the day. Is anyone else interested? Should I just pick out some times and dates and announce it? I really think having at least a meeting or two before the student application deadline would be a good idea as there are some issues with at least a couple of the applications. Ken

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RE: [SoC] Squeak Mentor Summit?
by Ken Causey 06 Apr '08

06 Apr '08

As it says at the end of the message the next meeting is scheduled for Monday April 7th at 22:00 UTC, this is the same as I originally stated. Beyond that I'm open to suggestions for the scheduling of future meetings. Ken > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [SoC] Squeak Mentor Summit? > From: Mathieu Suen <mathieusuen(a)yahoo.fr> > Date: Sat, April 05, 2008 5:37 pm > To: Squeak Summer of Code mailing list <soc(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org> > > > Soory but, were can I fine the schedule of the meeting? > > Thanks > > > On Apr 5, 2008, at 7:52 PM, Ken Causey wrote: > > A report on today (Saturday's) mentor meeting: > > > > Attendance was a little low but we did have two new participants: > > Adrian > > Kuhn and Giovanni Corriga. Thanks Adrian and Giovanni! Also in > > attendance were Klaus Witzel, Matthew Fulmer, Janko Mivsek, and Ken > > Causey. > > > > Giovanni explained the voting procedure, to summarize: > > > > Once the student application deadline ends a drop-down should appear > > on > > the application with -4, -2, -1, 0, +1, +2, +4 choices. The specific > > votes should not be visible to students. Voting is split up into two > > periods, the first will be from April 7th (8th maybe) until the 15th. > > The second will start on the 15th and end on the 17th or 18th and is > > meant to take into consideration students who have been accepted into > > other projects, the number of slots Google has assigned us, etc. > > > > Giovanni pointed out that any mentors interested in attend the Mentors > > Summit hosted by Google in the fall should start saving for expenses. > > Google will pay for a small number of mentors but not for all, and we > > have to pay initially to be reimbursed by Google later. > > > > Adrian Kuhn said he would be meeting with his student on Monday to > > improve the SpyVM application. > > > > Matthew Fulmer provided a link to his application from last year's > > GSOC > > which was accepted but which he was ultimately forced to cancel. > > > > http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5759 > > > > Giovanni pointed out that we should include at least one student who > > is > > a newcomer to Squeak, of course only if the application is also good. > > > > We didn't bother to go over all of the applications again. > > > > The next meeting is on Monday during the last two hours of the > > application period 22:00 to 0:00 on Monday April 7th. If you haven't > > made it to either of the other meetings this is the last chance before > > student applications have to be finished and voting starts. > > > > I would appreciate any comments on scheduling future meetings. I > > scheduled 3 of them rather close together right now to try to > > accomodate > > everyone before the deadline. I suspect we should have at least a > > meeting during the first voting period and almost certainly one during > > the second. Any thoughts you have on that would be appreciated. > > > > Ken > > _______________________________________________ > > SoC mailing list > > SoC(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org > > http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/soc > > Mth > > > > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Yahoo! Mail r�invente le mail ! D�couvrez le nouveau Yahoo! Mail et son interface r�volutionnaire. > http://fr.mail.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > SoC mailing list > SoC(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org > http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/soc

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Mentors can assign themselves to projects
by Klaus D. Witzel 03 Apr '08

03 Apr '08

Hi all, just checked our list of applications and was surprised that Google now provides the "I'm willing to mentor" button. I've marked the projects which I'm willing to mentor and they went up the list and got another color. I'd appreciate the other mentors do the same so we can see at a glance which applications match mentor's interest. Cheers, Klaus

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