Re: Summer Intern ideas?

[Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>]

Great idea!

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) <zeenix gmail com> wrote:

Hi,

2009/4/7 Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>:

> We have an opportunity to have college students work on GNOME Mobile type
> ideas in exchange for free housing, a G1 Android phone and anything we'd
> like to throw in.
>
> I know Android is a competitor in ways to GNOME Mobile, but we could offer
> other devices instead (if we have them.)
>
> I've been working with HFOSS.org (we'll have two paid interns working on
> GNOME a11y projects) and they have more summer interns than they could
> accept into their program. They are looking to see if they could provide
> free housing for more and Google has offered up Android phones as a kind of
> payment to those students that aren't in the paid program.
>
> Any ideas for GNOME Mobile projects they could work on? They would be novice
> programmers with access to professors, working for about 10 weeks this
> summer. We would need to also provide (remote) mentors for any projects we
> suggest.
>
> Ideas?

  How about we take some ideas from the list of ideas that didn't
make it to the short-list of GSoC? We can specifically pick the ones
that benefit the Mobile use-case(s)?

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Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124