Have people started working on any Google Summer of code 2007project?

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Julian Stacey <jhs at berklix.org> (from Tue, 27 Mar 2007  
18:16:27 +0200):

> Reference:
>> From:		"ajay gopalakrishnan" <geek.dwells at gmail.com>
>
>> Is FreeBSD restricting  non-students from not  taking up any project that is
>> 'suitable for summer of code'?

No. This markup was only done to allow students which want to  
participate in the SoC to see which ideas are _not_ suitable as a SoC  
project. When the rating of the submissions is done and projects are  
taken by students, we will update the ideas page accordingly.

>> For eg.
>> I was planning to take up the 'super tunnel daemon' project some time back.
>> I had done some initial work but now i find that it has also been marked as
>> 'Suitable for summer of code'. I am no longer a student. I am working
>> currently at a firm. So i dont think that i will be eligible for the summer
>> of code. Can i still take up the project or am i forced to take up those
>> that are not marked as 'suitable for summer of code'?
>> Also, if someone has taken a summer of code project can no-one else take it
>> up as a normal project to contribute to FreeBSD ?

As long as there's no interdependency created between you and the  
student, I see no technical reason to not collaborate. I suggest to  
talk with the technical contact of the project about it.

FYI: There is at least one submission out of ~90 for the super tunnel  
daemon. IIRC maybe 2. There's no decission made if this project will  
be selected or not. I try to remember to attach a note to the  
corresponding applications in the rating interface that you are  
interested in this project and that a mentor should get in contact  
with you in case it is selected for the SoC. Feel free to ask me about  
it at the weekend to make sure I did not forget to add the note.

> No can stop anyone working; Be a shame though if 2 people work &
> one's effort was not used.   I suppose as SoC deadline was yesterday
> it'll take a while for google to publish their sponsoring list.

It's the deadline for submissions from students. Now we (mentors) have  
to rate the proposals. There may even be students which get selected  
somewhere else in the SoC and prefer to work for another organisation  
instead for us. So we don't know at this point which projects will be  
taken by students.

At  
http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=60325&topic=10729  
you can see the timeline. The official announcement of accepted  
students (and the corresponding proposals) is scheduled for April 11.

> If 2 people develope same thing: whose code will be commited will
> I suppose be decided on which arrives first &/or seems best code,
> hopefully independent of status of author eg student V. independent.

I'm sure any judgment will be made based upon quality.

Bye,
Alexander.

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