On Thursday 22 November 2007 17:44:09 Jesse Allen wrote:
From my understanding, the SoC site specifically says that you do not have to work on a project that has to be completed in the allotted time. I think the idea is that google wants to encourage people that were already working on a project before to apply and to encourage people to continue working in the community after the session is complete. Now the mentoring organization could set their own requirements, based on difficulty and scope, but I would be concerned with making time a limiting factor.
I'm not saying that we stop people from working on their stuff afterwards, nor forcing them to e.g. implement the full dll if their project is "Start an implementation of dll x". I was talking about shrinking their proposal so they can actually manage to implement all the features they promise in their proposal in the proposed timeframe. I know that this was really hard for me.
The best alternative to the quiz would be to have the student begin working on the project before the application. He can discuss it on the the mailing list and hopefully show some code. This would be a good way to judge coding skill and the project's scope. Now in order for this to work well, we would have to encourage people to get started early, which really hasn't happened before right?
Well, depends on how you want to do this. I think this is overly restrictive, unless you're just talking about a patch or two like Maarten proposed.
I did write a weekly progress, but only to my mentor. Now if there was a website, then I could have submitted it there.
Yes, that's the idea. :)
According to the wiki page, we already require a post-mortem report on the project, however I can't remember seeing much of those this year. We should make sure those are written next time. We might think of a better name for the report, post-mortem sounds like the project is dead after the summer, we want people to keep working.
Maybe I misunderstood that. I only submitted my final report to google/mentors.
In 2006, students were asked to send the reports to wine-devel, and there was some WWN coverage of the projects. That really made it really easy for people to follow.
Cheers, Kai