[cvs] [Wiki] changed: GSoC2010Application

[Michael Rubinsky]

mrubinsk  Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:23:13 -0500

Modified page: http://wiki.horde.org/GSoC2010Application
New Revision:  1.4
Change log:  minor grammer tweaks

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  2010 is a milestone for the Horde project because we will be  
releasing the next major version of our application framework Horde 4.  
This will go along with a modernization of our applications, focusing  
on improved usability and ajax interfaces; a PHP component library for  
custom PHP development; and focusing on state-of-the-art PHP 5  
development practices. We hope to both inspire new developers to jump  
on the bandwagon with a modernized development environment, and also  
get help for driving the project forward and finish this process even  
faster.

     3. Did your organization participate in past !GSoCs? If so,  
please summarize your involvement and the successes and challenges of  
your participation.

-We participated in !GSoCs 2005 and 2006 with a number of students. It  
was a great and exciting experience taking part at the very first  
!GSoCs. But we also met some shortcomings with a few of the students  
and projects that helped us to learn how to improve the mentoring  
process for upcoming !GSoCs. Problems we faced were students who need  
a stronger leadership than expected to keep in touch with the  
projects, share their progress, and really finish their work.
+We participated in !GSoCs 2005 and 2006 with a number of students. It  
was a great and exciting experience taking part at the very first  
!GSoCs. But we also met some shortcomings with a few of the students  
and projects that helped us to learn how to improve the mentoring  
process for upcoming !GSoCs. Problems we faced were students who  
needed stronger leadership than expected to keep in touch with the  
projects, share their progress, and really finish their work.

     4. If your organization has not previously participated in !GSoC,  
have you applied in the past? If so, for what year(s)?
     5. What license(s) does your project use?

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  Michael Rubinsky (mrubinsk at horde.org) and Chuck Hagenbuch  
(chuck at horde.org) in that order

    11. What criteria did you use to select these individuals as  
mentors? Please be as specific as possible.

-Our mentors are all developers who have been active members of the  
project for many years and are still active in current development.  
All of them have proven their development skills by contributing  
substantial and well written code to the project. They share a sense  
of social skills to as they are actively helping users, administrators  
and other developers on the mailing lists and on IRC on a daily basis.
+Our mentors are all developers who have been active members of the  
project for many years and are still active in current development.  
All of them have proven their development skills by contributing  
substantial and well written code to the project. They also share a  
sense of social skills as they are actively helping users,  
administrators and other developers on the mailing lists and on IRC on  
a daily basis.

    12. What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students?

  First of all we will try hard to not let them disappear at all. From  
our experiences in the past we've learned that we need to keep close  
contact to the students from the very beginning and demand regular,  
active status updates. We won't allow any local development but  
require them to use the public SCM repository right from the start and  
commit early and often. They have to be available for direct  
communication through IRC or IM.