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RE: GCC at Google Summer of Code'2009
Sure, I moved my project suggestions to "other projects" section
and added contact info ...
Cheers,
Grigori
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Manuel López-Ibáñez [mailto:lopezibanez@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 8:41 PM
> To: Grigori Fursin
> Cc: Sebastian Pop; gcc@gcc.gnu.org
> Subject: Re: GCC at Google Summer of Code'2009
>
> 2009/2/26 Grigori Fursin <grigori.fursin@inria.fr>:
> > Hi Manuel,
>
> > I have been talking to a few mentors and students (not GCC related)
> > who got their proposals accepted in the last year's Google Summer of Code
> > and they basically told me that the mentors listed many different proposals
> > so that students could have a choice and then they submitted proposals
> > together. But maybe it was the wrong way to do :( ...
>
> You got it right but this is not what it looked like when you wrote a
> table called "2009 Proposals" with a blank column "Students?"
> separated from a section called "Project Ideas".
>
> Also, as I said, if you want students to contact you (or someone)
> directly, then you should give contact information. I think having
> contact information (obfuscated email, link to wiki user page, IRC
> name at #gcc, whatever) could be very useful to track who proposed
> what. That is why I did not delete it.
>
> > So, my idea was to sync on the potential proposals with GCC community
> > so that students could have a choice. So, I converted the table to the bullet
> > list format ...
>
> This is perfectly fine. The only problem is that there were already
> proposals in that page.
>
> Table or bullet points, I do not care, but both things are a bit
> confusing. Nonetheless, there could be a list/table of specific
> projects and another list/table of "general" ideas. I think it would
> be useful to separate the two, if you wish to do so.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Manuel.