[haiku-development] Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

On 21/02/2008, Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>  Some of you might know I was at the GSoC mentor summit (together with Ryan
>  Leavengood and Oliver Durantes) last year. According to the experience
>  expressed there, and mostly in line with our own experience - the most
>  successful projects are the projects proposed by students themselves. So
>  while a list of ideas is certainly useful, if you want to become a student
>  with the Haiku project, maybe you have an idea for a project already.

IMO, even though this might be true, a better idea for Haiku would be
to have student
working on tasks related to R1.

>
>  One more thing other organizations have been doing successfully is running
>  some form of test. This means that people who apply to become students will
>  be faced with a programming test. This way, Haiku developers get to know
>  these potential students, and in the successful cases, something useful
>  will be contributed to the project already. I think we should do this as
>  well.

+1

I remember ffmpeg has this kind of test. You couldn't apply unless you
have passed
a test, which was fixing a bug or something.

Regards,
-- 
Salvatore Benedetto (a.k.a. emitrax)
Student of Computer Engineer
University of Pisa
www.messinalug.org

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