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==<b>Describe your organization.</b>== | ==<b>Describe your organization.</b>== | ||
- | The Maemo community is a open source community developing software around the Maemo platform. The Maemo community has over 16,000 registered members who contribute to more than 800 development projects. We work with open source tools and processes. We develop new software on top of the platform as well as for the core platform itself. Applications developed with the Maemo SDK are used today by thousands of Maemo users around the world. The Maemo community is a well-organized group of people, including a Community Council (elected by community members every six months). The Maemo Community Council exists to represent the interests of the greater Maemo community other affiliated bodies. | + | The Maemo community is a Nokia-sponsored, open source community developing software around the Maemo platform. The Maemo community has over 16,000 registered members who contribute to more than 800 development projects. We work with open source tools and processes. We develop new software on top of the platform as well as for the core platform itself. Applications developed with the Maemo SDK are used today by thousands of Maemo users around the world. The Maemo community is a well-organized group of people, including a Community Council (elected by community members every six months). The Maemo Community Council exists to represent the interests of the greater Maemo community other affiliated bodies. |
==<b>Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2009? What do you hope to gain by participating?</b>== | ==<b>Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2009? What do you hope to gain by participating?</b>== | ||
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The Maemo community is applying to participate in GSoC, because we think that GSoC can help our organization in several ways. We also have former GSoC students and mentors who are very enthusiastic about the program. | The Maemo community is applying to participate in GSoC, because we think that GSoC can help our organization in several ways. We also have former GSoC students and mentors who are very enthusiastic about the program. | ||
- | Aside from the benefits of participating in a program like GSoC, we have already improved by the action of applying: a lot of brainstorming has been | + | Aside from the benefits of participating in a program like GSoC, we have already improved by the action of applying: a lot of brainstorming has been accomplisged and new ideas have arisen.. Still, we have many goals to achieve through our participation in GSoC. These are: |
* Attract new people to the open source world. | * Attract new people to the open source world. | ||
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* Get help in some of our community projects. | * Get help in some of our community projects. | ||
* Meet new people and have fun during the summer. | * Meet new people and have fun during the summer. | ||
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==<b>Did your organization participate in past GSoCs? If so, please summarize your involvement and the successes and challenges of your participation.</b>== | ==<b>Did your organization participate in past GSoCs? If so, please summarize your involvement and the successes and challenges of your participation.</b>== | ||
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This year, we have spoke with our GSoC 2007 mentors in order to acquire a big picture of our previous participation and found that there were some positive and negative aspects involved with the experience. In 2007, we had two successful projects that greatly helped our organization. But, during the course of the program, we had student attrition. In our opinion, this is something that our community must attempt to alleviate. This is true for the success of our role within GSoC and will also help to attract strong participants in the future. | This year, we have spoke with our GSoC 2007 mentors in order to acquire a big picture of our previous participation and found that there were some positive and negative aspects involved with the experience. In 2007, we had two successful projects that greatly helped our organization. But, during the course of the program, we had student attrition. In our opinion, this is something that our community must attempt to alleviate. This is true for the success of our role within GSoC and will also help to attract strong participants in the future. | ||
- | One of our improvements for | + | One of our improvements for 2008 was to form a jointed group of former GsoC students and mentors, as well as some some newcomers. We strongly believe that this group will be able to keep our students motivated and excited about the projects that are taken on. Our main goal is to aid in developing a great summer of code. |
==<b>If your organization has not previously participated in GSoC, have you applied in the past? If so, for what year(s)?</b>== | ==<b>If your organization has not previously participated in GSoC, have you applied in the past? If so, for what year(s)?</b>== | ||
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* Csaba Kertész | * Csaba Kertész | ||
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* Florian Boor | * Florian Boor | ||
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* Ilias Biris | * Ilias Biris | ||
* Leandro Sales | * Leandro Sales | ||
- | * Luis Felipe Moraes | + | * Luis Felipe Moraes |
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* Mike Jipping | * Mike Jipping | ||
* Mohammad Anwari | * Mohammad Anwari | ||
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* Zeeshan Ali | * Zeeshan Ali | ||
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* Quim Gil | * Quim Gil | ||
* Ryan Abel | * Ryan Abel | ||
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* Tim Samoff | * Tim Samoff | ||
+ | * Simon Pickering | ||
==<b>What criteria did you use to select these individuals as mentors? Please be as specific as possible.</b>== | ==<b>What criteria did you use to select these individuals as mentors? Please be as specific as possible.</b>== | ||
- | We | + | We start to invite people with some GSoC experience, the majority of our mentors are formerly GSoC mentors and students from other projects, we think that previous GSoC experience is a important factor in the success of GSoC, some newcomers also show enthusiasm about GSoC, and due their proven track record inside our organization also become mentors. Our backup mentors are persons with a big community assent and very respected inside our community and also with a proven track record in the open source world, some of them also have some experience in GSoC. All of our mentors are strongly motivated in order to help our community reach our GSoC goals, providing a pleasant summer of code to the students that we will can host. |
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- | All of our mentors are strongly motivated | + | |
==<b>What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students?</b>== | ==<b>What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students?</b>== | ||
- | + | At the students selection process we will be careful with students that have other commitments during the Google Summer of Code coding period, in order to avoid situations where the student have a big overload of work, that can lead to not fulfill our expectations. | |
- | + | We will require students weekly reports to their mentors and assigned backup mentors in order to keep track of the students progresses, we will also require bi-weekly reports of the projects for our community mailing list, with this we will have the student status at any time, avoiding problems that can be arise during the coding period. | |
- | + | At the beginning of the coding period the students and their mentors will review and adapt their project schedule, in order to keep the student in the schedule. | |
- | + | Besides the preventive measures described above, we will try to keep our students motivated at any time. | |
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- | Besides the preventive measures described above, we will | + | |
==<b>What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors?</b>== | ==<b>What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors?</b>== | ||
- | We | + | We plan for each project to have one "backup" mentor, that will be involved in the project development, in case of problems with the regular mentor, the backup mentor shall assist the student in order to accomplish the final goals of the project. The organization administration also will be in touch with the all the mentors, in order to prevent possible problems and also motivating them. |
==<b>What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your project's community before, during and after the program?</b>== | ==<b>What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your project's community before, during and after the program?</b>== | ||
- | We will encourage | + | We will encourage possible students to get involved in ours mailing lists and IRC channels, before the coding period we will encourage students to do a brainstorming of ideas about their possible projects with the community, this way the students will do better project proposals and also better projects, we strongly believe in open discussion. During the coding period the students have to send bi-weekly updates to our community mailing list, this way they can share their thoughts, problems and decisions and also the community can give possible solutions for their problems. After the GSoC end, we don't want to have students anymore, we want to have motivated Maemo Community members, that will keep helping our community with their GSoC projects or other community projects. |
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==<b>What will you do to ensure that your accepted students stick with the project after GSoC concludes?</b>== | ==<b>What will you do to ensure that your accepted students stick with the project after GSoC concludes?</b>== | ||
- | The Maemo | + | The Maemo Community is a very active and friendly community, during the coding period the students will be very motivated by their mentors, but also by the community, that will make suggestions about the students projects, this way the students will feel a community reward, and in the end of GSoC they will feel part of our community, this community commitment will ensure more collaboration with our community besides the GSoC period. We believe that the community reward and motivation is one of the key factors for a good and solid open source project. |
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