If someone who knows the diaspora* source and architecture well enough wants to mentor, please speak up and lets apply No point in discussing whether we “should” apply, of course we should - but someone needs to volunteer as a mentor before anything else makes sense to be discussed.
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I can be a mentor. I would prefer the client side, but mentoring someone on server side doesn’t scare me either. Should we propose some tasks?
I can allocate about 4-6 hours each week.
I can volunteer to be one of the administrators towards Google - one other would be needed. This is for communicating and also to assign a new mentor in case the selected mentor becomes unavailable.
@dumitruursu they say mentors should expect approx 5 hours per week per student. I guess one student would be good then
We would need to propose some tasks - this is a requirement for applying to collect those into a list so students can see them easily. Proposals?
I can help or handle the application towards GSoC.
Port to BS3 is not that easy. There’s still some part of the UI that are not even finished to be ported to BS. Firstly stream and header.
I like the idea ! Let’s apply !
Do students can choose the project they’ll wor on ?
Because if everyone is ok and it doesn’t require to be full time on the code (I wont have holidays this summer), I’d like to apply as student (ans I admit that 5000 USD would help me a lot).
@augier - during this period, we don’t have holidays in india either. but a lot of students do participate in gsoc and they performs well. so I don’t think that the lack of holidays will be a problem.
@jasonrobinson @ @praveenarimbrathod today(20-02-2015 19:00 UTC (11am PST)) is the last date to submit the application. I think we should hurry if we haven’t submitted the application yet.
Sorry everyone about not moving with the application. Been sick for last 3 days. I will draft it tomorrow as early as possible. Then gather some issues too and post here. But I will have to send the application asap without waiting too much for discussion regarding the list of issues - deadline.
If anyone wants to help list issue links here WITH a little description (one-two lines on what the aim is) too, that would be awesome, thanks. I think we should avoid huge things like API, etc… Those things cannot be done by some people coming outside from the project for a few months. The issues need to be easy take take on.
@akashagrawall - I don’t think that you’ll get the whole three months. I was an org admin and mentor for the past two years. every student were balancing gsoc and classes (even exams were there for a few of them) and they did it pretty well.
the point is, you CAN do gsoc even if you have classes in summer
It could use some love. I just chose, in panic, some of the most requested sane features. Feel free to remove / edit / improve. But PLEASE, keep the same kind of formatting and put a description for the issue. Also I still don’t think putting things which require extreme knowledge in the diaspora* code into this list. Like API, etc.
No point in discussing whether we “should” apply, of course we should - but someone needs to volunteer as a mentor before anything else makes sense to be discussed.
