Re: [Libreoffice] Promoting LibO to Vietnamese students by completing easy hacks

Hello,

I CC'ed Nguyen Hong Quang, the one who has founded MHST.

(2011/04/20 14:47), Cedric Bosdonnat wrote:
> Could you enlighten us about some points about MHST?
Perhaps Mr. Quang can do that better than me :)

> Is it working
> exactly like GSoc (1 student, 1 project, one potential winner) or is it
> more like a team project with one project? This would help us see what
> kind of project(s) is needed for the students.
Mentors and students can team up.
Last year, most team consists of 3 or 4 students.
And the winners are team, not a person in a team.

> > The developers are the mentors and I step back as the one who fill the
> > gaps between
> > the developers and the students.
> Cool! Are there some vietnamese developers that could help mentoring and
> start gaining experience on the LO dev?
I will try but I can not promise anything.
The open source movement in Vietnam is still quite immature; and we find 
it very hard
creating an active Linux users' group. That means, it is even harder 
find FOSS developers.

> > > Sure, but don't go too quickly with the tasks from the GSoc as the
> > > students aren't selected yet.
> > I didn't know that :) Anyway, the deadline for picking an idea is
> > 2011/04/30
> What we can do: you copy the whole lot of ideas now and you remove the
> ones selected for GSoc when Google has announced the selected students.
> This way Vietnamese students can start working on their proposals.
+1
> We can keep some private communication about the topic you know
> vietnamese students are about to pick: I could tell you if you would
> need to redirect the student on another task.
Please send me the list off-list.
> The GSoc ideas page is pretty OK on that point, but not the easy hack
> page. I'ld prefer keeping things on the GSoc ideas page.

And can add more ideas if you have, we have to finish them anyway.

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Nguyen Vu Hung (Nguyyễn Vũ Hưng)
LibreOffice, Vietnamese Translation Team.