From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Cyril Roelandt Subject: Re: Guix as GSOC Project Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:54:03 +0200 Message-ID: <5178385B.4070900@gmail.com> References: <87mwsq44a6.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:33883) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UV5zT-00026p-9x for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:08:35 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UV5zO-000832-PN for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:08:31 -0400 Received: from mail-wg0-x235.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c00::235]:43363) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UV5zO-00082r-IH for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:08:26 -0400 Received: by mail-wg0-f53.google.com with SMTP id z11so1053616wgg.32 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:08:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ashish Gupta Cc: bug-guix@gnu.org 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.