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| camelopard | Google Summer of Code is now accepting applications from mentoring organizations. Would Artifex consider joining the movement? | 00:39.12 |
| Robin_Watts | Ubuntu has done GSOC in the past, for some Ghostscript related tasks. | 08:58.03 |
| | I was a "backup mentor" then. | 08:58.20 |
| | I was "disappointed" in the results. | 08:58.41 |
| | I think for work to be successfully done on gs, we'd want to be using someone who had experience of the code, rather than random CS students coming into it cold. | 08:59.56 |
| | So I suspect that there is more scope to get good results with people who first start under our bug bounty system than just expecting people to apply out of the blue. | 09:00.38 |
| camelopard | Robin_Watts: The sponsor is not obliged to accept students based on some formal criteria like GPA. GSoC reserves a whole month for direct negotiation between the prospective parties, when everything can be checked. Some potential projects don't require extensive knowledge of Ghostscript code. For instance, one of the bounty bugs requires little more besides optimization of a large logical expression. The students | 16:14.52 |
| | who lurk here are not random, but even they won't be able to contribute much without the sponsoring part. | 16:14.53 |
| Robin_Watts | camelopard: Yes, I understand all that. | 16:15.29 |
| | My experience with gsoc in the past with ghostscript was an entirely negative experience. | 16:16.02 |
| | I know it works well for other projects (ScummVM for example), but I've been utterly put off it for gs. | 16:16.34 |
| | If we knew of someone that was really interested in doing some work under the auspices of gsoc, then we might be interested in pursing it (or even just funding them ourselves), but I rather suspect that we'd end up getting applications from a load of students with no particular interest in gs, who were doing it because they thought it would good on a CV. | 16:18.33 |
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