Posted by Ian Holsman
My Two students Simon and Chris did wonderful jobs, and I’m happy with their work.
I think both projects were worthwhile, and fun.
I can’t wait to implement the Per Object Permissions on Zyons and my Chatter group of apps.
I even convinced Brian to lend me his domain (and his time) to create one…
ok I lie .. it’s his.. I’m just hosting it .. I’ll leave it up to brian to announce it when it is ready
Posted by Ian Holsman
this is a bit of a rant.. but I’m already getting prospective students mailing me and I want to avoid some of the issues I had last year.
drupal have come up a series of pages to help out prospective students.
If you are applying for a project I am mentoring.. READ THEM.
What I expect of you during the summer
I have put my name down to be a mentor in both Django and the ASF web-server projects. If you have a good idea in either of these 2 areas.. feel free to add the idea to the respective Wiki’s. (once you ping the dev-list/me)
The official ASF wiki for projects is here
The Django wiki for projects is here
once you have done that, you should subscribe to the development list of the project and introduce yourself, and your idea.
The more people who know who you are, the better. Last year we got 6-7 proposals for some projects. The people who haven’t filled in the application properly/in detail, or who never bothered pinging us were at a disadvantage to those who did.
What to expect from me.
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ok.. this is important. If you want me to mentor your project, you better like the way I do it :-).
My main aim for mentoring this is for you to see what open source is like, and what working in a open source community is like, and for you to be part of the community in the long term.
That means: I expect you to be proactive, contribute to the mailing lists, and know when to ask for help. I try to act as a guide, not a answer-provider. I will not hold your hand. (I am too busy and overcomitted as it is).
I am more interested in the ‘people’ side of this project, not the code. Code can be fixed later on if required.
At the moment I plan to mentor at least 1 student for each project, and plan to allocate 2-4hrs a week (max) to it. This worked well last year. (where I mentored 4 students, 2 of them are still active on the development list 1 year later on.. )
ok.. still want to apply? great! do I sound like a self-important obnoxious pr**k? at least you know now ;-) and you can apply to another project instead of choosing mine.
Posted by Ian Holsman
I’m not sure if It will be ‘authorized’ or not, but I have submitted my forum application as a ‘organisation’ to Google’s Summer of code program.
It’s actually coming along pretty nicely.. It has pingbacks implemented, and the tagging should be done in a week or so. It’s kind of taking the ‘best’ bits out of a blog and adding them to the ‘best’ bits of a forum app.
Are there any other web 2.0 forum apps? I’d love to hear about them.
Posted by Ian Holsman
So Google’s Summer of code has drawn to a close, the 4 students I have beeen mentoring have produced their code, and it is starting to appear in The HTTPD Repo. I believe each got a true experience of what developing open source code is about, and hopefully 2-3 of them will continue on with HTTPD!
I’ve been off work as Michelle and I have had some variant of flu, and has made mish bedridden, making me the ‘child care unit’… The girls also had a bout of pink eye (naturally one got it just as the other stopped) so it’s been a slow week. Oh.. and I’ve caught whatever they have got now.. just in time for the weekend ;(.
my MBA semester has also started, I’m enrolled in managerial economics and managing process (operations management). I’ve got an advantage in both of these.. For some reason all the stuff on the internet lately has been about long tails, lemon markets, prisoners dilemmas and red queens, and my work as in performance at cnet has given me some insight into queuing theory, which hopefully I can apply to ops mgmt. I also think that seeing how I can apply these things to help improve CNET’s internal operations.
So.. apologies in advance for boring the socks off you guys when I give my insights to these 2 subjects apply to the internet, open source, and Corporate IT.