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Posted to dev@community.apache.org by Suresh Marru <sm...@apache.org> on 2013/05/02 12:43:04 UTC
Clarification on students own project
Hi All,
There are quite a few gsoc proposals, proposing their own projects and are hitting totally out of the rough. I think we should limit these students to encouraging proposing new ideas to one of the ASF projects but not totally new projects. I am not sure if any of these students will bother to read the gsoc documentation on the comdev website, but if in case they do, I added a special note.
Can you please review and refine the last note in the "Students: read this" section at - http://community.staging.apache.org/gsoc.html. If its ok as is, please publish the changes.
Cheers,
Suresh
Re: Clarification on students own project
Posted by Suresh Marru <sm...@apache.org>.
On May 2, 2013, at 8:21 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz <bd...@apache.org> wrote:
> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Ulrich Stärk <ul...@spielviel.de> wrote:
>> ...Those projects normally can simply be ignored....
>
> +1, IMO students who don't do their homework (like looking at the
> projects we suggest) should fail early, let's not waste energy on
> those proposals.
>
> Of course, if the next Steve Jobs has a fantastic proposal they should
> feel free to submit it, but my guess is that that one would look
> better than two lines of hastily crafted vague ideas.
>
> -Bertrand
Totally agreed Bertrand and Uli. I will hope there will be some plans in forests of weeds. But I do not intend to spend any energy fishing for these. When I randomly come across anything worthwhile, I will point to comdev gsoc page. If they are coming back next year they will know where to look.
Suresh
Re: Clarification on students own project
Posted by Bertrand Delacretaz <bd...@apache.org>.
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Ulrich Stärk <ul...@spielviel.de> wrote:
> ...Those projects normally can simply be ignored....
+1, IMO students who don't do their homework (like looking at the
projects we suggest) should fail early, let's not waste energy on
those proposals.
Of course, if the next Steve Jobs has a fantastic proposal they should
feel free to submit it, but my guess is that that one would look
better than two lines of hastily crafted vague ideas.
-Bertrand
Re: Clarification on students own project
Posted by Ulrich Stärk <ul...@spielviel.de>.
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...
Those projects normally can simply be ignored.
But I like it that you want go the extra mile and try to identify those that might be worth
encouraging to properly propose something.
Going to publish your changes.
Uli
On 02.05.2013 12:43, Suresh Marru wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> There are quite a few gsoc proposals, proposing their own projects and are hitting totally out of
> the rough. I think we should limit these students to encouraging proposing new ideas to one of
> the ASF projects but not totally new projects. I am not sure if any of these students will bother
> to read the gsoc documentation on the comdev website, but if in case they do, I added a special
> note.
>
> Can you please review and refine the last note in the "Students: read this" section at -
> http://community.staging.apache.org/gsoc.html. If its ok as is, please publish the changes.
>
> Cheers, Suresh
>