[Catalyst] Google Summer of Code: mentors, projects

[Kieren Diment]

I'm still keen on the idea of an easy Perl/Catalyst installer.   
Something that might encompass local::lib, PAR and deployable on the  
three or four main OSs  windows (strawberry perl), OS X (10.4 and  
10.5, using the system provided perl) and linux (maybe debian and red  
hat based distros - again using the system perl).  Also needs to work  
in an environment with no root/Administrator  access.   And a nice  
"double click" installer at the end would be good.  I've rigged up an  
appalling hack to do this in windows that needs finessed, but I  
haven't looked at the other OSs.

Mentoring?  Well, what I can offer is to point a student in the right  
direction of who to talk to, not much else.  I'm also very tolerant of  
stupidity being a somewhat mentally challenged programmer myself.


On 23/02/2009, at 3:27 AM, Matt S Trout wrote:

> So, the Summer of Code is fast approaching, so I need two things out  
> of
> you wonderful people:
>
> (1) if you think you might be able to mentor, yell - and outline  
> what areas
> you think you'd prefer doing so in[0]
>
> (2) suggestions for projects that *would appeal to a student to work  
> on.[1]
> Note that your suggestion will carry a lot more weight if you're  
> willing to
> do the doc/writeup and even more if you're willing to mentor it :)
>
> We have a few people working on student recruitment, and I'll post  
> later
> about how anybody else who wants to work that side of things can  
> help out.
>
> For now, we need to make a list of mentors and projects so we can  
> get that
> sent out and set up - if we don't get slots, nothing else matters  
> sadly.
>
> Excessive bikeshedding will result in me resetting the thread with a  
> new
> summary email and killfiling the old one; we don't have time for it,  
> sorry.
>
> [0] note that you shouldn't worry too much about expertise here - I  
> intend
> for a number of us to provide backup services to mentors in terms of
> technical knowledge, the key requirements here are interest and time
>
> [1] I'm not interested in your personal wishlist of features here,  
> mine's
> probably at least as long as yours and I'm not inflicting it on the  
> list
> just now so please show the same courtesy :)
>
> -- 
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