Hi, Google Summer of Code has been announced by Google. It ime to start promoting it, so as to get awesome student contributors. We already have 3 posters ready to promote GSoC at various events. I would like to ask the board how much funds can be allocated towards promotion (Printing of Posters, Goodies etc)
As we have a very short time, we need a quick decision on this. Hoping for a quick response ;)
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Saurabh Sood saurabhsood91@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, Google Summer of Code has been announced by Google. It ime to start promoting it, so as to get awesome student contributors. We already have 3 posters ready to promote GSoC at various events. I would like to ask the board how much funds can be allocated towards promotion (Printing of Posters, Goodies etc)
As we have a very short time, we need a quick decision on this. Hoping for a quick response ;) -- Regards,. Saurabh Sood
Have a lot of fun!
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Is It still too soon for me to promote this around in my university forums? If not, then besides the GSoC link what other links should I provide to point students to openSUSE?
On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:46:36 -0800 "DuBois, Scott L." ranger@roguehorse.com wrote:
Is It still too soon for me to promote this around in my university forums? If not, then besides the GSoC link what other links should I provide to point students to openSUSE?
It is not too soon.
Problem is, as usually, that openSUSE has no ideas what to give as projects :)
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GSOC_2013_Ideas is still empty.
Looking at article history you can see there was no many for 2012. http://en.opensuse.org/index.php?title=openSUSE:GSOC_ideas&action=histor...
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Reading the same to give some ideas that may need some work:
Connect openSUSE - karma plugin - there is some work done, but I can't find that plugin anywhere on the Connect, or anywhere else.
Some ideas were transferred from openFATE http://features.opensuse.org which can be idea generator this year too.
Beautiful 1-click instal was last year topic, but I don't see it implemented anywhere.
Popularity contest - sorting packages by popularity. I think someone worked on it, but again no dice if you want to see what software is popular.
----------------------------------------------------------------------- One idea from previous years would be bugreporter.
Utility bugreporter should talk directly to bugzilla, but it is command line tool. I learned by accident that it exists. So far I recall my experience, usability is worse then with actual bugzilla in a browser. Not that is not clear once you read options and know some command line conventions, but more people know browser then command line conventions. Attempt to refresh memory ended in a bugreporter crash :)
In other words some improvement would be helpful to users and developers, for instance fixing code and using full screen text mode - ncurses, like yast, Midnight Commander etc, or even GUI.
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/mihneadb/... https://github.com/mihneadb/suse_bug_reporter/
While tool can be helpful, it is obvious that task is too much for single developer.
It is not too soon.
Yes. It is not too soon. We only have a month to have a solid ideas page, and to get students.
Beautiful 1-click instal was last year topic, but I don't see it implemented anywhere.
The 1-Click installer is on Github. I am still working on it. There are some issues remaining, which have to be sorted out.
@Rajko could you add your ideas to the wiki page? :)
Also, we are planning to put last years ideas, which were not taken on the ideas page. The only difficulty is finding mentors for it.
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