GSoC 2009 coming up

[Owen Rudge]

> My biggest motivation for requiring weekly status updates is that in the past 
> years I had a hard time following the GSoC projects I was not involved with 
> directly. At WorldForge, we required weekly reports to the mentor at first 
> and then decided that the weekly reports should go to the developer mailing 
> list. That kept everybody informed what was going on.

I would say this seems sensible - the weekly reports would not 
necessarily have to be greatly detailed, but I imagine it would help to 
keep students on track, and would enable the rest of the community to 
know what's going on with the students. From experience, I would say 
that I probably only tended to post on the lists when I had specific 
problems, or patches to submit, so a weekly update would have likely 
resulted in more interaction.

Cheers,

-- 
Owen Rudge
http://www.owenrudge.net/