On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 09:13:59 -0700, Andrew Sutton <asutton.list@gmail.com> wrote:
That's so vague; it's almost impossible to figure out what this would mean we'd be signing up for.
My impression also. Even with the FAQ, there doesn't seem to be a lot of organization-specific information. I guess if we wanted to participate, we'd just need to create a list of a couple dozen tasks among the 100-odd Boost libraries that can be readily solved by pre-college students. Of course, those tasks need to be of sufficient simplicity that a single student could address a number of them between Nov 22 and Jan 10.
I went to yesterday's session at the GSoC mentor summit to learn more about Google Code-In. There were quite a lot of questions from other orgs, too. My impression is that it is really a test drive from Google. That said we (Boost or any other participating org) can't do anything wrong as noone knows what's right. :) As long as we come up with some tasks, mentor students and evaluate their solutions we are fine. That said if noone objects and noone else is interested in the program I could go ahead, register Boost and try to see how the program works? There is no other mentor summit for Google Code-In (someone had asked in the session ;) but it might be still good for Boost to participate in this program from the start? Boris