[gentoo-dev] Summer of Code 2007

2007-03-16 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
Hiya all, It is that time of the year again, and we have yet once more been accepted as a mentoring organisation for SoC. Interested mentors (current Gentoo developers) should fill in the mentor application (link sent to -core). Interested mentors, co-mentors, people with project ideas and pros

Re: [gentoo-dev] Summer of Code - worth repeating?

2007-02-19 Thread Daniel Robbins
I agree that we should do it. Looking a the list for 2006, I think we should steer clear of projects that might require significant knowledge of Gentoo Linux internals or that may have a lot of difficult interdependencies and/or coordination. For example, moving to a different revision control sys

[gentoo-dev] Summer of Code - worth repeating?

2007-02-19 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
Hiya all, Let's do a quick re-cap of Summer of Code '06: Gentoo had 14 project slots, out of these fourteen two were on Gentoo external Gentoo project which I will leave out of the re-cap. That leaves us with twelve projects, four of which were being worked on by at the time current Gentoo deve

Re: [gentoo-dev] Summer of Code students and Planet Gentoo

2006-05-29 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Sunday 28 May 2006 14:42, Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: > On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 20:30 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > Daniel Drake wrote: > > > 1. We encourage our students to write about their projects on weblogs, > > > and will set them up temporary weblogs at gentoo-soc.com if they do not > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Summer of Code students and Planet Gentoo

2006-05-28 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 20:29 -0500, Lance Albertson wrote: > Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: > >> The worry there was whether it would create controversy if they were > >> hosted with other developer blogs, so we figured we'd host the actual > >> blogs off-site (should irk less

Re: [gentoo-dev] Summer of Code students and Planet Gentoo

2006-05-28 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 13:57 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: > > The worry there was whether it would create controversy if they were > > hosted with other developer blogs, so we figured we'd host the actual > > blogs off-site (should irk less people, although presumably m

Re: [gentoo-dev] Summer of Code students and Planet Gentoo

2006-05-28 Thread Lance Albertson
Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: >> The worry there was whether it would create controversy if they were >> hosted with other developer blogs, so we figured we'd host the actual >> blogs off-site (should irk less people, although presumably most will >> already have external blog

Re: [gentoo-dev] Summer of Code students and Planet Gentoo

2006-05-28 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: > The worry there was whether it would create controversy if they were > hosted with other developer blogs, so we figured we'd host the actual > blogs off-site (should irk less people, although presumably most will > already have external blogs already) and just aggregate

Re: [gentoo-dev] Summer of Code students and Planet Gentoo

2006-05-28 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 13:05 +0200, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 11:17:41PM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: > > 1. We encourage our students to write about their projects on weblogs, > > and will set them up temporary weblogs at gentoo-soc.com if they do not > > have t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Summer of Code students and Planet Gentoo

2006-05-28 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 20:30 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Daniel Drake wrote: > > 1. We encourage our students to write about their projects on weblogs, > > and will set them up temporary weblogs at gentoo-soc.com if they do not > > have them already > > Why a new domain? We've already got a blo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Summer of Code students and Planet Gentoo

2006-05-28 Thread Henrik Brix Andersen
Hi, On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 11:17:41PM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: > 1. We encourage our students to write about their projects on weblogs, > and will set them up temporary weblogs at gentoo-soc.com if they do not > have them already > > 2. We create a new planet at http://planet.gentoo.org/soc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Summer of Code students and Planet Gentoo

2006-05-28 Thread Daniel Drake
Donnie Berkholz wrote: Why a new domain? We've already got a blog setup at http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/ and could just add http://planet.gentoo.org/summerofcode/ or something. If you want something like this, why not (soc|summerofcode).gentoo.org/? The domain is already set up, and host

Re: [gentoo-dev] Summer of Code students and Planet Gentoo

2006-05-27 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Daniel Drake wrote: > 1. We encourage our students to write about their projects on weblogs, > and will set them up temporary weblogs at gentoo-soc.com if they do not > have them already Why a new domain? We've already got a blog setup at http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/ and could just add htt

[gentoo-dev] Summer of Code students and Planet Gentoo

2006-05-27 Thread Daniel Drake
Blogging was very popular during last year's summer of code, and we expect it will be this time too. We (user-relations) have been discussing how we can further involve our students with the community by aggregating weblogs about their projects on a Planet. We are proposing the following: 1.

[gentoo-dev] Summer of code!

2006-05-01 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
Hi potential students! I wanted to give you all a heads up, as of today we are accepting student applications for Summer of Code. So if you are a student and you fancy writing some code this summer you should go check out Google's Student FAQ[1], Gentoo's project ideas[2] (keep in mind that you