Re: Clarification on students own project

2013-05-02 Thread Suresh Marru
On May 2, 2013, at 8:21 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Ulrich Stärk 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 e

Re: Clarification on students own project

2013-05-02 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Ulrich Stärk 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

Re: Clarification on students own project

2013-05-02 Thread Ulrich Stärk
c compiler for blinds birthday remainder (sic!) app INTERNSHIP AT APACHE SOFTWARE ... 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 chang

Clarification on students own project

2013-05-02 Thread Suresh Marru
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 bot