[tei-council] Should we look into joining Google Summer of Code 2010?

[Dan O'Donnell]

Hi all,

I was looking at some Google Summer of Code programmes just now. The 
programme is discussed here: 
http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc2009/faqs#org_apply

I hadn't really known we could participate, but with our grant programme 
and SIG activities, we are actually moving in a direction that would be 
quite compatible with their programme. The main thing would be to look 
into thinking about student-sized projects and an "ideas" page over the 
next year. For example, we might be able to package some of the user 
cases as projects; or we could look into infrastructure work. They would 
need to be intellectually challenging, so it might take us a while to 
think about our work in this way. But it might be an interesting idea to 
pursue.

What do others think?

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Daniel Paul O'Donnell
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University of Lethbridge

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