Now Accepting GSoC 2016 Mentor Organization Applications

[Anton Lundin]

On 08 February, 2016 - Dirk Hohndel wrote:

> Which leads me to the question:
> 
> "do we want to do GSoC 2016?"
> 
> I'm not sure. I thought the last two years were overall good experiences.
> 
> But they have not brought us long term contributors (Gehad was the closest
> we got and his last commit was from September of last year). The others
> have ALL disappeared. Most of them the moment the final evaluations were
> in.
> 
> And if I chart the effort of the mentors and what they could have implemented
> during the time it took them to handle the students... I'm even less convinced 
> that this is a net positive.
> 
> Finally - what would the projects be this year? Is there anything that people
> have in mind that can be done by a student and that couldn't be done much
> easier by one of the potential mentors?
> 

One project i thought of was to fix up our file based importeras for
Seabear and Xdeep, to glue up our file importers with something that can
act as a libdivecomptuter lookalike. Like the Uemisis thingie.

That would streamline the experience for users of those devices, just
being able to say "download" the new things.

I had another idea to, but its currently lost on me. I'll come back if
it ever re-surfaces.

> OK, I guess what I wrote here reads a bit more negative than I feel. I'm open
> to doing it again. But I want to get some feedback from others, ESPECIALLY
> from the potential mentors (Lubomir, Robert, Anton, Miika, Tomaz, etc).
> 

I'm full time "mentor" for my kiddo right now, so between that and
renovating the house there ain't much time over for anything else. I can
gladly cheer from the side line, but I can't promise to be in the game.


//Anton


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