Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (539 mails)

[Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 03:01:36PM -0600, Bryan Henderson wrote:
> I am interested in participating in the GSoC this year.  I have a
> project in mind
> (http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GSOC_2011_Ideas#Beautiful_one-click-install)
> which would be "right up my alley;"  namely, Qt, openSUSE and
> packaging semantics are my interests, and I am a big Qt enthusiast.
> However, I have a full-time framing construction job.
>
> My job schedule is unpredictable; I could have a straight month of
> work, and then several weeks off in between the next job.  Each job
> takes ~5 weeks.
>
> In my upcoming job, I will be working 60 minutes away, coming home
> every night and working Monday through Saturday.  If I utilized 30-60
> minutes a night on the project and every Sunday, 2 hours a day while
> traveling, I could pull off 30-35 hours a week.
>
> In the next job (starting about May 9th), we will be working 2 1/2
> hours away, staying in hotels over the week and taking Friday-Sunday
> off.  Meaning that I could pull 42-53 hours a week.
>
> Although I am perfectly capable of spending ALL my spare time on
> programming/research (I have done it before), I am not going to
> pretend that ALL of the time I have mentioned will be free for the
> project; I do have to take care of myself!
>
> I have discussed this (briefly) on GSoC's IRC channel, and they said,
> "No way, Hose!"  I never mentioned how much time I would be able to
> devote... What is your input?

GSoC is supposed to be a full-time job.  If you can't commit that time
to it, I would suggest not applying for it.

thanks,

greg k-h
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