[xwiki-devs] [ANN] Official Google Summer of Code projects

[Sergiu Dumitriu]

Ludovic Dubost wrote:
> Hi Alexandru,
> 
> Welcome on board.
> 
> It would be great if all the SoC students used their XWiki profile on 
> XWiki.org to write a nice profile about themselves and about their 
> project, as well as add there their URL to their blog if they have one. 
> We can then make a nice page in the Summer of Code zone to aggregate all 
> this.
> 
> Since we have such a nice promotion for 2008 SoC (thanks Google), we 
> should plan some game at the same time. We could elect at the end of the 
> year:
> 
> - best participant in IRC
> - best documenter
> - best unit tester
> - best email participant
> - best specifications
> - best coder
> - best live demo of the soc project
> - best promotion of his soc project
> - best overall project
> - best mentor (elected by the students we can have some fun also :))
> 
> WDYT ?
> 

Yes, this is a good idea, but we must stress that this is not a real 
"competition", meaning that the final goal is to have a great summer, by 
helping students learn how to be part of the community, how to help 
others, how to write good code. Don't worry, if you won't be a "winner" 
on any of these categories, it's no big deal. If someone seems better 
than you, don't hate him/her, but try to follow the example and learn 
how to do better.
-- 
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/