[OLPC-GSoC] SoC activity development

[Austin Appel]

Wade Brainerd wrote:
> What about treating several of the proposed activities as a one large 
> project?  We would create a SoC "activity team" of 4-8 students and 
> 2-3 mentors, and then have these students develop several of the 
> activity ideas over the summer.

Google Summer of Code simply does not work like that.  This is for many 
good reasons such as:

Students being reliant on another student's work does not end well if 
something happens to the other student.
Issues always arise about Xxxxx Xxxxx not doing "their fair share" or 
one superstar student doing almost everything.
Delays while waiting for collaborators.
Dividing up money fairly.

This really isn't an option at all, as it is against Google's whole 
vision of GSoC and how it should work.