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Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 04:17:56 +0100
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Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code 2009: Another wireless application
From: Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@gmail.com>
To: Witold Sowa <witold.sowa@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Witold Sowa <witold.sowa@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
>> (Hi Till!) - personally I like to see AP mode in network manager...
>> there are two students on this (neither look too promising on first
>> glance, but I could be wrong.)
>>
>> I haven't been checking lately - seems to have fewer students this year?
>>
> Actually, I disagree. I am ready to discuss my ideas and prove that I
> have suitable skills to carry on the project.

You are free to discuss your ideas - but it was quite inappropriate of
me to comment on merits and relative merits of students' applications
in an open list, and I apologize for that.

You are welcomed to try - and please do. But mind you a few things
(and same applies to other students' applications):
somebody who is knowledgeable in the topic of your choice needs to
agree to be your mentor, and so far that has not happened - Dan has
not agreed to consider any of the AP mode applications yet AFAIK;
also, project ideas are compared and considered both within linux
foundation, and in GSoC as a whole: Google only funds X numbers of
projects each year, and only Y are allocated to Linux foundation.

So, on the first issue, if I decide to take a student (on a different
topic), and nobody agrees to take you, you are automatically out... on
the 2nd/3rd point, if your application does not compare well - either
in terms of intrinsic merits, or in terms of strategic importance of
"linux roadmap" overall, then some other applications within Linux
Foundation may get a higher rating; and lastly, Google only agrees to
fund Y projects (which is to be decided when all the applications from
every organization comes in, and weighted against organizations, say,
based on past years organizations' track record - e.g. some
organizations get a lot of slots but many did not finish, etc may get
fewer slots this year).

So - if you want to discuss your ideas, please do. (not to me
personally, since I am not likely to be mentoring the AP mode
project).