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Subject: Re: Clarification on students own project
From: Suresh Marru <smarru@apache.org>
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Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 09:53:53 -0400
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On May 2, 2013, at 8:21 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz <bdelacretaz@apache.org> =
wrote:

> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Ulrich St=E4rk <uli@spielviel.de> =
wrote:
>> ...Those projects normally can simply be ignored....
>=20
> +1, IMO students who don't do their homework (like looking at the
> projects we suggest) should fail early, let's not waste energy on
> those proposals.
>=20
> Of course, if the next Steve Jobs has a fantastic proposal they should
> feel free to submit it, but my guess is that that one would look
> better than two lines of hastily crafted vague ideas.
>=20
> -Bertrand

Totally agreed Bertrand and Uli. I will hope there will be some plans in =
forests of weeds. But I do not intend to spend any energy fishing for =
these. When I randomly come across anything worthwhile, I will point to =
comdev gsoc page. If they are coming back next year they will know where =
to look.

Suresh