On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Witold Sowa <witold.sowa@xxxxxxxxx> 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). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
