On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 1:24 AM, Cyril Roelandt <tipecaml@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 04/23/2013 10:24 AM, Ashish Gupta wrote:
>>
>> The best part is that I'll be having a summer break from 27th May (the
date
>> when volunteers are announced) to 18th June. In those 20 days, i can do a
>> lot of learning about whatever will be relevant. And after the college
>> starts i can spend at least 35-40 hours a week working on the project i
>> will be assigned.
>
>
> So you'd be going to college and working on Guix at the same time ? I
think this might be a problem. The idea of the "Summer of Code" is that
students get to work during their summer __break__. I'm not saying this
can't be done, but working double shifts seems a bit hard to me.
>
> Cyril.

Hello Cyril, im actually accustomed to working like that, college goes on
but that will be for about 4 hours a day with no concept of "homework"
going on. It wont be "double shifts", it's actually what i do everyday,
very normal. The college will not be a part where time is invested, not at
all. It will actually be like a summer break because the hours have been
reduced by half (8 hours to 4 hours) by the college.

It is of no worry. I can keep working on Guix for 40-45 hours a week easily
enough , and maybe stretch it to 50-55 if required.
Plus as i mentioned, the 20 holidays that im getting in the beginning of
June will also help in learning about a lot of new things, using which
stuff can be implemented once the actual programming kicks off under GSoC.

Regards,
Ashish