Brainstorm ML and Ubuntu's own summer of code?

[Bryce Harrington]

Hi Nicolas,

This sounds like a great idea, let us know if you get strong interest
from students to participate, I'd be happy to mentor for Xorg oriented
tasks.

Bryce

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 09:17:28PM +0200, Nicolas Deschildre wrote:
> Hi!
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> Hardy is now out, and the UDS and FOSScamp are next. The ideas at the
> Ubuntu Brainstorm website will, or will not be a great source of
> inspiration during these events, we will see.
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> Meanwhile, if you are interested as an Ubuntu developer to discuss how
> to make the website more efficient for you, to discuss its mechanism,
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> I would also like to take this opportunity to introduce an idea that I
> see as a natural follow-up to the Brainstorm website: an event similar
> to the Google Summer of Code, that would be launched every development
> cycle. Basically the concept would be similar to GSoC except that the
> motivation factor would not be money but the fact that the
> contribution would be included in Ubuntu's next version (granted it is
> completed on time). The event would cover Ubuntu "extensions", and
> involves coding, but also packaging, documentation, i18n, .... A
> proposed schedule would be: selection of tasks at the UDS, one month
> for the "pupils" selection process, and the time remaining before
> feature freeze to complete the tasks. Finally, to make potential
> contributors benefit from it, the "pupils" would be asked to put
> online a "report" where they would explain how they worked.
> That's a rough idea yet that I'd like to discuss at the FOSScamp if
> people are interested. Please comment :)
> 
> Nicolas
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