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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code 2009
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:35:10 -0800
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Cc: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>, git@vger.kernel.org
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Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> wrote:
> Le lundi 12 janvier 2009, Andreas Ericsson a =E9crit :
> > From previous years experience, successful=20
> > projects are those that the list sees code from within a week
> > or two after the project's started, while the projects that are
> > kept in the dark rarely (if ever?) finish successfully.
>=20
> I don't think things are so simple.

Nope, they aren't.  But the pattern is generally there, when you
look at all GSoC projects in aggregate.

Students who are involved with their community are far more likely
to have a successful project.  In most communities, getting code
posted on the discussion list and actually discussing it is a very
important part of that involvement.

--=20
Shawn.