From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Phil Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user,gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: GSOC Advice Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 16:50:40 -0500 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301954560 29093 80.91.229.12 (4 Apr 2011 22:02:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 22:02:40 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel , Guile Mailing List Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 05 00:02:37 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6rqx-00088d-88 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:02:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38176 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q6rq4-0004uX-Tg for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:01:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=38226 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q6rfW-0005ME-Tc for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:50:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6rfV-0005p0-NN for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:50:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-qy0-f169.google.com ([209.85.216.169]:42553) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6rfV-0005oc-JS; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:50:41 -0400 Original-Received: by qyk2 with SMTP id 2so1522009qyk.0 for ; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:50:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=azcMwaKXY4qnqZQ/Oad+2Y8G4So3EPEcuKW3uiVYrQE=; b=nBYYpANxtTydExa6a52cQIFLEr9Olr6JR25HceELBqmB2gxrovlrwLyFNR7tIfTkqD Pt9NCv7rYVrV2nen4DX3B6WAomaI5fGQ9LpFArHe2Re0kbJUGfeLaoW6iafCXUp1x1hw S7x88/TZhmx59vkqniCrzrnIQlxiUAZ0/Pwzc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=FRLS7v1QFfWpgHCaZECbMWIXZj7WprGub+CA8NCm78PN87FwEQxMe0+gfV+7HVPnU4 ogpXgJl6rV0JwpxMi3z9yG5cpbRY3KUxLeiNe3DvTwgy/UW+AhG4Bzvz81VeCK1968BK GAJMetLJfEnSoHQiq2hB31LVH/AMltoVxIKU8= Original-Received: by 10.229.33.15 with SMTP id f15mr5927884qcd.278.1301953840421; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:50:40 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.229.85.198 with HTTP; Mon, 4 Apr 2011 14:50:40 -0700 (PDT) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.216.169 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:8576 gmane.lisp.guile.devel:12159 Archived-At: If anyone was thinking about participating in GSOC this year I have a couple tips: - Do it, it's a great program and the Guile team is great to work with. - If you can, develop against the stable release of Guile. - (for the Guile team) I'm not sure if we have any students in America this year but if we do, it'd be great if a mentor would step up. The turnaround time on communications due to timezone differences was a little problematic for me last year. Good luck! Phil.