Don't forget community mentors! <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Sharon Lally <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sharon@laptop.org">sharon@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<br>SJ, it sounds like a good plan....but OLPC/1CC had problems retaining mentors last year, so make sure not to over-commit. The remaining OLPC staff may not have time to mentor.<br>Sharon<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">
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On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Samuel Klein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sj@laptop.org" target="_blank">sj@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex">
I'm copying our own gsoc list, and glad to clarify how this should work.<br>
<br>
I mentioned to Leslie yesterday that I expected SugarLabs and OLPC<br>
might have separate GSOC projects this year. Someone representing SL<br>
should write and formally get on their list of supported<br>
organizations. [note: this requires tax/ID information for SL]<br>
<br>
OLPC is interested in participating in GSOC this year... some of the<br>
projects I imagine would be activities or software for creation that<br>
would work particularly with the XO's hardware, or would help needs in<br>
OLPC deployments.<br>
<br>
It would be alright for both SugarLabs and OLPC to have people working<br>
on code that could be integrated into Sugar (note the different<br>
activity-development and python coding that was done both as an OLPC<br>
SoC project and via other orgs who wanted their projects to be useful<br>
to OLPC as an audience). It is also possible to submit an application<br>
to more than one organization.<br>
<br>
I recommend noting in our organization descriptions (and definition of<br>
what we are looking for) that people who want to develop tools and<br>
features for Sugar should apply to SL, and people who want to develop<br>
things specifically for OLPC deployments, or other software puzzles<br>
specific to XOs, should apply to OLPC.<br>
<br>
I would encourage most activity developers and activity mentors to<br>
tackle SoC projects under sugarlabs...<br>
<br>
SJ<br>
<br>
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On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Ed McNierney <<a href="mailto:ed@laptop.org" target="_blank">ed@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> Yes, but in 2007 "they" were "us", no?<br>
><br>
> Thanks, this is helpful information (I didn't know the status of<br>
> OLPC's previous GSoC work). I don't see why there is any reason to<br>
> presume that OLPC would NOT be interested in 2009 GSoC, but I don't<br>
> know of any active ideas/proposals kicking around here. I would<br>
> strongly encourage Sugar Labs ideas, however - to Ben's point, there<br>
> should be no confusion. The only things I could imagine (and it's<br>
> just imagining) coming from OLPC would be ancillary ideas (school<br>
> server add-ons?) that would be quite distinct from XO/Sugar software.<br>
> Go for it!<br>
><br>
> - Ed<br>
><br>
><br>
> On Jan 8, 2009, at 3:54 PM, Wade Brainerd wrote:<br>
><br>
>> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <<a href="mailto:tomeu@sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">tomeu@sugarlabs.org</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>>> We should take into account that organizations are assigned slots<br>
>>> based on their well behaviour in past editions.<br>
>><br>
>> To be clear, OLPC was put on GSoC 'probation' last year due to their<br>
>> poor performance reporting on students' work in 2007. They only<br>
>> received 4 slots despite hundreds of applications.<br>
>><br>
>> Wade<br>
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