Re: Mentoring for GNOME in Google Summer of Code

[Clytie Siddall <clytie riverland net au>]

On 24/04/2006, at 3:46 AM, Claudio Saavedra wrote:

> I second Clytie's concern on this matter. In Chile we are in the worst
> moment to take part on such a program because we aren't in vacations,
> but at the end of the so-called "first year's semester".

Exactly like us in Australia.

Claudio, Behdad has said that Gnome does have some interest in  
running a SoC in our summer (July?), but probably needs to hear from  
likely participants.

Do you know any students locally who would like to participate if the  
SoC is run in our summer? If so, please get them to write to Google  
about it:

http://code.google.com/soc/

and we will create change. :)

Posters on one of the Linuxchix lists commented that the current  
scheduling also excludes students in other countries in the Northern  
Hemisphere (it's exam time for some countries), and that post- 
graduate/research students don't actually get a break of any length.

I think this means Google needs to be more flexible in how they  
administer the SoC, or they will be missing out on some very valuable  
participation.

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm  
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN