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It's really important to know at the start of the semester what projects will be wanted and needed. Students may have their own ideas for what they want to do,
by celticjames 17y ago
It's really important to know at the start of the semester what projects will be wanted and needed. Students may have their own ideas for what they want to do, but it's so much easier to get the ear of a developer when you are working on something they want. This is critical if you need to get something committed.
Another commenter mentioned Google Summer of Code. The projects that are successful for gsoc are the ones where students and mentors did a lot of talking about what the community wants before submitting a proposal.
- alexgartrell 17y agoOne thing we learned in doing the open source projects in the prior course (I took then TA'ed it) is that you kind of just pick up whatever tickets the project has laying around. In this case, we're definitely looking for a "Please do X, Y, and Z" situation. So we're just looking for an X, Y, and Z type thing that might fit with our interests; not trying to squeeze our interests into a project.
- metzby 17y agoA big part of admission into Google Summer of Code is having a good list of suggested projects.