Hi folks,
Google announced the 2008 programme today and I wanted to use the opportunity to talk about the next steps we should take to get ready.
I will start a separate thread to start collecting project ideas, presenting the ones mentioned on the wiki page [1]. New project ideas are very much welcome. If any of you feels like mentoring one of the projects, please mention that. If you're a student with your own project idea, please mention that as well.
We will then have to discuss if we believe the projects are doable in a Summer of Code timeframe. When we talked about last year's projects on WineConf, it was the common opinion that we didn't do a very good job on that for 2007. I don't have a surefire solution for this, we should try being a bit more conservative though.
I will add some more documentation to the SoC wiki page, does anybody have a good idea what we could call the post-mortem analysis? I know this is a correct technical term, but in my opinion it sounds a bit negative. Lacking a better alternative, I'd call it review. Can the native speakers come up with something else?
Maarten, you wrote a wiki page about your 2007 experience. Could you add it to the "Helpful Links" section?
[1] http://wiki.winehq.org/SummerOfCode
Cheers, Kai