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02:24.27ramkwoGood evening, people... I've remembered about this great opportunity to participate in GSoC just today. After reading the FAQ I still have an unanswered question. The timeline says that organizations will start submitting applications in February. It was also said that it is good practice to contact with the organization beforehand. But how do I contact them and discuss their ideas if they haven't posted their ideas yet?
02:25.33ojwbramkwo: you can't know for sure which orgs are going to be accepted this year, but you can see who took part last year
02:25.50eoc`look for last year's participants and ask them if they work on a new ideas page … maybe you find some (-,
02:25.53ojwband most orgs thinking of applying already have a public ideas list
02:26.12ojwbtry googling for something like gsoc ideas list
02:26.31ramkwoah, thanks... I'll certainly try
02:34.24theboltMorning
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03:53.02techbreakhow do I select an organisation ?
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04:02.29cosmopolitanthey haven't been posted yet
04:02.54cosmopolitanthey won't be posted until 18 March
04:03.27cosmopolitanbut you can look at last year's organizations, many of them return
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04:08.57joshua__I'm pretty sure this is the list of organizations: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/program/accepted_orgs/google/gsoc2010
04:19.13joshua__Past organizations that is.
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07:59.41LahiruS_Hi all,      im new to gsoc and think to do a java project,  can anyone give some tips
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08:10.36thiago_homefind a project that works on java
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08:27.39Abhishek_Singhdoes Mozilla participate in GSOC?
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08:29.18cosmopolitanevery year
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08:46.42milkieveryone always asks the same questions >.>
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09:02.19ojwbthere's no guarantee that an org will take part this year just because they always have in the past
09:02.31ojwbAbhishek_Singh: if you want to know if mozilla will apply, ask them
09:02.43cosmopolitanbut Mozilla will
09:02.49ojwbif they've taken part previously and done a good job, chances are they'll be accepted if they apply
09:05.09Abhishek_Singhojwb: thanks for your response
09:05.50Abhishek_SinghI took part in gsoc 2010 for osgeo, it was an amazing experience:)
09:06.03cosmopolitani'm hoping to get in this year
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09:06.28frrvrme too
09:06.45cosmopolitancouldn't participate last year, hoping i have what it takes to get accepted this year
09:07.51Abhishek_Singhthis year I am looking forward to contribute to some other open-source project
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09:08.57cosmopolitani'm hoping to do some work with Boost, i love C++ the most, and i just finished an Advanced Data Structures course, so it seems like the best fit for me
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13:13.49shadeslayer!next
13:13.49socinfoshadeslayer: "next" is February 28, 19:00 UTC: Mentoring organizations can begin submitting applications to Google.
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15:22.48kblindarn, and here I thought I knew how to program python
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15:34.06thebolthi kblin
15:34.10thebolthow're you doing ?
15:34.23kblinthebolt: learning some more python, it seems
15:34.28kblinhttp://paste.pound-python.org/show/3143/
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15:35.52theboltkblin: hm, that seems strange.. what's going on?
15:37.16kblinhttp://blog.objectmentor.com/articles/2008/05/22/pythons-mutable-default-problem
15:37.27kblinwas just pointed out to me on #python
15:37.37kblinbasically, the mutable object stays around
15:38.22theboltah
15:38.25theboltstupid :P
15:39.02kblinI'm so glad I had tests in place that caught this in a small, isolated test case
15:39.31kblinmy pastebin is a cut down version of the real code, but the test is pretty similar
15:39.43kblinthis would have been hell to find in the real code
15:41.40lucianit's really annoying. i'd say a flaw
15:41.41theboltyea
15:42.08kblinI agree. if you don't know this, you stare at it for ages and don
15:42.10kblin't get it
15:45.50bubble_anyone here applying in C ??
15:48.20kblinbubble_: beg your pardon? applying in C as in applying for a C-based project?
15:48.43bubble_kblin: yes
15:49.42bubble_yes kblin
15:49.59gevaertsbubble_: just out of interest, why does this matter?
15:49.59kblinthere's usually only few people around who still know C, in my experience
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15:51.28bubble_gevaerts: I'm new to gsoc and a beginner so I thought if anybody could help me with a piece of advice
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15:51.46kblinjust ask your questions, I guess :)
15:51.58ojwbthat's a good piece of advice
15:52.10gevaertsbubble_: I can't think of any gsoc-related advice that would depend on implementation language really :)
15:52.34gevaertsApart from that, I tend to do C
15:52.42gevaerts(not as a gsoc student though)
15:53.26luciani'd stay away from C
15:53.31gevaertsWhy?>
15:53.37lucianit annoys me to no end
15:53.50gevaertsAh, right. Personal differences :)
15:53.54gevaertslikes C
15:53.56luciani've written pretty big things in C, and i've always managed to break them
15:54.01lucianit's just horribly unsafe
15:54.19gevaertsI disagree
15:54.26gevaertsIt's *differently* unsafe, maybe
15:54.28lucianCyclone (http://cyclone.thelanguage.org/) would've been a vast improvement, but it seems to have died
15:54.34lucianno, it's just plain unsafe
15:54.42gevaertsSo is everything
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15:55.04luciannull terminated strings, expressions with side effects, pointers without bounds checking
15:55.22bubble_gevaerts: what would you advice me, knowing I'm totally new to all this  ?
15:55.30lucianit looks almost like it was designed to encourage security bugs
15:55.39lucianbubble_: do you know C well?
15:55.45gevaertsbubble_: I can't give any advice if the question is that vague :)
15:55.49lucianlet me rephrase that, what language do you know best?
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15:56.22bubble_lucian: C
15:56.32bubble_gevaerts: vague as in ??
15:56.40gevaertslucian: you mean, as opposed to languages that are designed to hide how everything works?
15:56.54kblinbubble_: "what is your advice" is not a good question
15:57.00gevaertsbubble_: as in "I can't figure out what the question is"
15:57.01Mathnerd314lucian: it was designed to be close to the hardware. blame the hardware for making bugs easy... ;-)
15:57.04lucianbubble_: ok, then look in the list of possible projects and choose ones you might like
15:57.24lucianMathnerd314: gevaerts: i disagree. there are a few changes to C that would make it much, much safer
15:57.28lucianwithout hiding anything at all
15:57.40bubble_I have never applied for gsoc and I never even knew about it till recently
15:57.42lucianthis is very well evidenced by Cyclone
15:57.47lucianbubble_: it's awesome :)
15:58.11kblinlucian: it's safer than assembler
15:58.16gevaertslucian: ok. I thought for a moment you were advocating some of those recent OO disasters :)
15:58.19luciankblin: that's not saying much
15:58.29luciangevaerts: not C++, worry not
15:58.46kblinC.NET? ;)
15:58.57gevaertskblin: isn't that a news website?
15:58.58luciankblin: is that even a thing?
15:59.23kblinlucian: not that I know of
15:59.55bubble_what will be the selection criteria ??
15:59.55lucianthere's managed C++ running on .NET if that's what you meant
16:00.13lucianbubble_: mostly likelihood of success
16:00.35gevaertsbubble_: first of all there are of course the requirements to apply in the first place (be 18 or older, be enrolled somewhere, ... That's online somewhere)
16:00.56bubble_lucian: as in .. interview or some sort of test ??
16:01.12gevaertsAfter that, convince the organisation that (a) the project you want to do is worthwhile (if you pick one from their ideas list, that shouldn't be hard), and (b) you can do it
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16:01.46lucianbubble_: you submit a proposal and chat with people in the respective organisation
16:01.48gevaertsHow that happens depends on the organisation, but there are some general rules
16:02.09gevaertsMake sure the proposal is good, detailed, and plausible
16:02.42bubble_do organisations indulge language related questions too ??
16:02.47gevaertsTry to work within the organisation before the selection, e.g. fixing bugs
16:03.28gevaertsI haven't heard of formal exam like things
16:03.51gevaertsSome organisations like qualification tasks though, e.g. you get one or two weeks to accomplish a specific task
16:04.03bubble_gevaerts: if I want to apply for gnome
16:04.28gevaertsI can't speak for gnome. I have no idea how they work, or even what their software looks like these days
16:05.19gevaertsIn general though, organisations want to know if (a) you're competent and you either have or can learn the skills you need, and (b) you can interact well with them
16:05.55bubble_so, the soft skills do matter a lot
16:05.56bubble_?
16:06.24gevaertsIf you specifically want to apply with gnome, you have it easy (only one organisation to deal with!). Run their software for a while, find bugs in it, submit bug reports, investigate the bugs, submit patches
16:06.45gevaertsThat's valid in general, but if you have seven candidate organisations it's tedious :)
16:06.54lucianbubble_: what i found useful is frequenting irc and ml of the orgs i was interested in
16:07.14bubble_lucian: ml ??
16:07.19lucianmailing list
16:07.26luciani usually choose 3-5 projects i care about
16:07.40lucianthen naturally a few become unfeasible, redundant or plain stupid
16:07.44luciani get left with 1-2
16:08.10bubble_how does mailing lists help ??
16:08.17lucianbubble_: read what's going on
16:08.24lucianintroduce yourself
16:08.46bubble_and organisations too have irc channels specific to them ??
16:09.04lucianbubble_: not as clear-cut as that, but they tend to
16:09.10lucianprojects tend to, to be more precise
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16:09.33lucianfor example for gnome, try gimpnet (irc.gimp.org)
16:09.43gevaertsOpen source projects communicate in some ways. Those include irc, mailing lists, and forums. Which of those are more prominent varies
16:09.46lucianthere are channels in there for a lot of things
16:10.45bubble_should i join a mailing list now ? or when soc is started ??
16:11.22lucianbubble_: do everything as soon as possible
16:11.31gevaertsbubble_: just look at it from the other side. Suppose you have to pick one person for a project, and you have two candidates. One has a really nice proposal, while the other one has a really nice proposal *and* has fixed two bugs, asking for help when he was in doubt so the patches are good. Which one do you pick?
16:11.32lucianyou can look at the lists of orgs for last year
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16:13.06bubble_how do I fix for gnome ? I hear they have a database
16:13.41gevaertsAh, that's another general rule for gsoc: try to find out things on your own and don't ask for help with every little thing :)
16:13.59lucianbubble_: i'm assuming you use gnome
16:14.09lucianthink of something you'd like fixed or improved, in general
16:14.30lucianyou can try gimpnet #gnome-hackers and ask around what could be done
16:14.35gevaertsStart with bugs I'd say. Improvements can be controversial
16:14.49khrmbubble_:https://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?classification=__all
16:15.09khrmsearch the app you will like to work or bugs you will like to fix.
16:15.22gevaertsSubmitting a patch for a new feature that you think is clearly a good idea but that turns out to cause a flamewar every time someone suggests it isn't the first impression you're aiming for
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16:16.27bubble_thank you everyone for your advice
16:16.48bubble_|Kev|: and how can I do that ?
16:17.09lucianbubble_: i told you. connect to irc.gimp.net #gnome-hackers
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16:40.45shadeslayerbubble_: and subscribe to their devel mailing lists etc :)
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16:41.34bubble_shadeslayer: thank you :) I'm finding it
16:41.46shadeslayerok ...
16:42.37shadeslayeridk for sure, but i think gnome will probably be/ is in feature freeze ( in a few weeks? ) ... so alot of scope for bug fixing
16:42.53shadeslayeris more of a KDE Guy
16:44.11gevaertsis more of a "I have a window manager, why would I need one of those desktop things?" guy
16:44.26naegawesome ftw
16:45.12shadeslayerpersonal choices really ... :)
16:46.26gevaertsI'm still using ion2
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17:01.14mlankhorstgevaerts: im using kde, but mostly launch things through konsole :p kde is just for drawing a background and task bar items
17:01.48gevaertsmlankhorst: sounds a bit heavyweight for that :)
17:02.22mlankhorstshrug, konqueror + kwebkit is pretty nice
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17:25.08mlankhorstneeds ubuntu to make sure they dont break shit between releases for wine ;)
17:26.50naegfor what do you need wine? I hated that so much when I was using it
17:27.29gevaertsHe didn't say he needs wine :)
17:27.49naegassumed
17:29.18kblinnaeg: and you hated wine because of...?
17:29.54naegsome things work in one release, but not in the next, then you would have to install several versions of wine
17:30.09naegcurrently i prefer booting my real windows installation with qemu
17:30.52kblinbug#?
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17:31.26mlankhorstnaeg: usually regressions have a high priority of fixing if you can isolate the bug and assign it to the person who broke things :\
17:31.33naegnahh, the way with qemu is much easier ;)
17:31.36gevaertsnaeg: as a general hint: don't say you hate program X to random people in this channel. They may well be involved in them
17:32.06gevaertsExcept when you want a lively discussion of course :)
17:32.34mlankhorstgevaerts: I no longer take attacks on wine personally :)
17:32.36naegwell, you are right. I'd better say i hated to use it, ofc it has it's use, but not for what i need windows
17:33.31naegI don't blame any dev, I understand it's hard to do what wine does
17:34.10mlankhorstwhat really helps are regression testers though, if a program breaks in a new version its easy to find out what broke as long as you are willing to spend time in it :\
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17:34.26gevaertshates it when people use wine to run a program that also has a linux binary, available on the same page
17:34.40mlankhorstgevaerts: I do that :(
17:34.46kblingevaerts: not if the linux binary sucks ;)
17:35.04naegand what program would that be?
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17:35.07gevaertsmlankhorst: yes, but you may have a good reason :)
17:36.02naegmlankhorst: i used to do so when i was using wine, but after some time it was much easier for me to use a real windows installation
17:36.21gevaertsmlankhorst: does windows libusb work on wine yet?
17:36.41naeg(note that i'm a archer, so i was always using the newest wine accordingly)
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17:37.14mlankhorstit depends, i dont think all patches are in yet
17:37.32gevaertsIt didn't work for that particular user anyway
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17:39.30kblinnaeg: there was a game that was styled like that game this hacker in "wargames" played, and the first few releases for linux really sucked
17:39.42kblinthey probably fixed it by now
17:40.04mlankhorstplayed world of goo on linux with wine ;)
17:40.16naegdidn't see that film, but somehow i am interested it it now. what is the game called kblin ?
17:40.27gevaertsmlankhorst: the thing is, if it didn't work, who would you have complained to?
17:40.40kblinnaeg: don't remember, I'm afraid :)
17:40.51naegis it world of goo?
17:41.17kblinworld of goo is a game where you play a bunch of black blobs
17:41.31kblinthe game I'm talking about is like thermonuclear war
17:41.38gevaertsSounds similar :)
17:41.43mlankhorstgevaerts: it depends, I just looked at appdb.winehq.org for world of goo, but it required no special things
17:42.35kblingevaerts: no, world of goo is probably set a couple of thousand years after the thermonuclear war finished ;)
17:42.47gevaertsmlankhorst: the thing that annoyed us most back when this one user had a problem was that he didn't mention wine at all. It took a while to figure out that when he said he ran the tool on ubuntu, he meant he ran the windows binary using wine on ubuntu
17:43.06kblingevaerts: fun :)
17:43.07mlankhorst:x
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17:44.25naegis wargame a film i should have seen?
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17:44.52kblinhm, it's one of the classic hacker movies, but I don't think it's very good
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17:46.20naegis it actually "real"? not like in matrix where she "hacks" some computer with ssh by simply knowing the password, which is really lame...(but well, that movie isn't about hacking)
17:46.55kblinnaeg: well, is using a wardialer to find an open line into a computer "hacking"
17:46.57mlankhorstnaeg: actually iirc she used an existing exploit :p
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17:47.21gevaertsAnd proper social engineering counts :)
17:47.33mlankhorstand anyhow she already got into the matrix, by that point you can bend spoons, why worry about a fake password?
17:48.27naegdunno what to say to that :P
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19:13.40sanchitm jus a beginner...know c/c++ n elementary java
19:13.42sanchitcan u tell me how can i contribute to drupal for the same
19:13.43sanchitbasic steps of getting started ll do
19:13.45sanchitanybdy
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19:14.49gevaertssanchit: I'd say that you should ask that in a drupal channel
19:17.24sanchitgevaerts, drupal is an option as i said dat m jus a beginer...so wud like to know wid this much knowledge which company shud i opt ap[art from drupal
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19:17.59thiago_homesanchit: look at last year's list of accepted organisations
19:18.11thiago_homethis year's list doesn't exist yet
19:19.11|Kev|sanchit: In the various OSS communities, some look down on text-speak. I'd recommend not using it unless you already know it's acceptable.
19:19.23|Kev|It could quickly damage your chances with some orgs.
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22:41.20pygihey folks
22:41.24pygiany KDE guys around? :D
22:41.49Nightrosepygi: not a guy but...
22:41.49pygithiago_ comes to mind, if I'm not wrong? :p
22:41.50Nightrose;-)
22:42.01thiago_homenot wrong
22:42.02Nightrosewhat do you need?
22:42.06pygiah
22:42.14pygiI wanted to bug somebody about porting k3b to libburnia libs :D
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22:42.34Nightrosedo you want to do it as a gsoc project?
22:42.48pygiummm, to be honest, I think it would be easier for me if I mentored it :p
22:43.14Nightroseok it would need a mentor from the k3b team in addition
22:43.32pygiok, I'm a mentor from libburnia :P
22:43.44thiago_homebut feel free to put it in our ideas page
22:43.47Nightroseplease email their mailing list and see if they think it is a good idea and if someone is willing to be the co-mentor
22:43.59pygithiago_home just googling for it :p
22:44.12Nightroseonce you have their ok put it on the ideas page
22:44.39pygiay captain
22:44.42pygi:p
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22:44.48Nightrosehttp://community.kde.org/GSoC/2011/Ideas
22:44.54Nightrosecool :)
22:45.03Nightroseif you have questions you can always ask in #kde-soc
22:45.06pygik3b is only major software missing libburnia support me thinks
22:45.16pygiwell, apart from gnomebaker which is mostly due to me being lazy
22:45.17pygi:D
22:45.22Nightroseheh
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23:44.32SuSi_21hi
23:44.51SuSi_21does anyone know how could I train for gsoc?
23:46.43mlankhorstThere's no training, just look at google on what previous summer of coders wrote ;)
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23:48.26joshua__SuSi_21, if you don't know how to program one way to train would be to start learning now
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23:56.39SuSi_21thank you everyone

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