On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Rene Rivera <grafikrobot@gmail.com> wrote:
Andrew Sutton wrote:
My name is Ilie Halip..
And last but not least... I'm actually employed right now, but my superiors
are willing to give me more than 3 months of time off to be able to work for GSoC. Is that ok? Should I ask for more? I was looking over the timeline, and thought about getting a vacation between May 15th and August 30th. Would that be enough? Is it also alright if I stop working on the project for about a week in early June? Because I have a few exams then.
I don't think we've ever had a student request time off from a job before. GSoC runs Mar 20 thru Aug 20, so that's about 3 months.
We have had such circumstances come up before. The usual arrangement is that students need to start early to make up for the lost time.
Well, in the timeline, it sais that the coding should begin on May 24th. Until then, I am of course able to read documentation, check examples, use the APIs myself, and get acquainted to everything I need to work on this project. I already did a svn checkout of the boost repository and Stefan's sanbox project, and I looked around the source code. @Andrew: I only mentioned libxml2 because Stefan's boost::xml is using it too, and I thought that this project involves developing it further. But I think we need his opinion on this issue. :) BTW, will he mentor the project, or somebody else? Regards, Ilie.