Hi Alex
I'd love to participate, but I'm too busy these weeks to be of any
substantial help with the proposal.
Hans submitted a proposal for Pd last summer and it
was not accepted. I read a mail where it seemed, like Nick points out,
that there is some considerable bureaucratic overhead involved.
http://puredata.info/dev/summer-of-code/GoogleSummerOfCodeIdeas/
http://puredata.info/dev/summer-of-code/GSoCOrganizationApp2009
You can read the feedback from Google if you dig the Pd mailing lists.
Good luck
thor
On 5 Mar 2009, at 11:47, alex wrote:
> Thanks for the insights Click,
>
> On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 16:08 +0000, Click Nilson wrote:
>> But I had a quick look at the actual application forms required for
>> this last month, as possibly suggesting a SuperCollider bid, and
> came
>> to the conclusion that it was too much paperwork and too many
>> requirements on supervision and location. Maybe I've misread it, but
>> seems to require quite specific proposals with very careful
>> supervision arrangements (there is also the spectre of getting
>> university hosting support for this before making any official bid,
>> which can be less than simple admin in itself).
>
> It doesn't seem so bad to me, am I looking in the wrong place?
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-announce/web/notes-on-organization-selection-criteria
>
> I think we fit the grade pretty well - we're a long running, active
> organisation, with achievements to show for it, and we could get a lot
> out of GSoC. I doubt we'd get more than a couple of students, but
> if it
> went well we could get more the following year.
>
> I've made a start here. Is this the paperwork you're referring to or
> have I missed something:
> http://toplap.org/index.php/GSoC
>
> Also, what do you mean by university hosting support?
>
> There's no point going ahead without a selection of mentors from the
> various languages. I propose mentor and one backup from each free
> software language/project. People who spring to mind, in no
> particular
> order (and without asking them first) are:
>
> * Nick Collins/Julian Rohrhuber/Fredrik Oloffson/Dan Stowell/Thor/ ? -
> supercollider
> * Dave Griffiths/Artem Baguinski/? - fluxus
> * Ge Wang / Kassen / ? - ChucK
> * Jamie Forth / Alex McLean (me) - netclock
>
> We could perhaps include pd in this as well.
>
> Remember these are mentors, not students, who would apply later.
>
> Does this make sense? Anyone keen/not keen? Mentoring might be
> quite a
> bit of work by the way... The student would likely be learning on the
> job and need some support.
>
>> On the other hand, if I'm entirely wrong about how straight forward
>> it is, happy to be part of a bid, though no time for extensive admin
>> work on it before the 13th.
>
> Would you be happy as a named mentor Nick?
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> alex
>
>
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