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UAE based investment company

Faeqah Nejad — 2013-05-17T07:30:51

Sir,

I am the investment officer of UAE based investment company who are ready to fund projects outside UAE, in the form of debt finance. We grant loan to both cooperate and private entities at a low
interest rate of 3-4% ROI per annum. The terms are very flexible and interesting.
Kindly revert back if you have projects that needs funding for further discussion and negotiation.

Thanks
Faeqah Nejad
investment officer.

Salam Sahajetra

Widiyana Samudra — 2013-05-13T05:16:34

Assalamualaikum Wr.Wb...

Sebelum dan sesudahnya saya ingin memperkenalkan diri saya,nama saya WIDIYANA SAMUDRA berasal dari Indonesia dan bekerja di London (United Kingdom), ingin berkenalan dengan anda di sana.
Saya ingin menawarkan satu peluang bisnis yang begitu bagus,dan  bagi Anda yang berminat dengan bisnis ... Inilah kesempatan Anda,kapan lagi kalau bukan sekarang bukan.???
Produk ini di namakan (MULITE CLEANSER) kegunaannya untuk mencuci barangan yang sangat berharga sekali seperti batu intan permata yg masih mentah.
Dan pada waktu yang sama perusahaan di tempat saya bekerja membutuhkan MULITE CLEANSER dimana mineral tersbut tersedia dari operator yg di Indonesia.
Jadi bagi anda yang berminat dengan bisnis ini, saya ingin Anda menjadi Agent untuk menjual produk tersebut ke pada perusahaan tempat saya bekerja, (Anda membeli produk tersebut dari operator yang di Indonesia terlebih dahulu dengan harga 500USD(Lima Juta Rupiah) per karton dan dijualnya kembali ke pada perusahaan  di tempat saya bekerja d

Re: Next steps for mentors?

Nicolas Dandrimont — 2013-05-05T18:22:17

Hi,

* Daniel Pocock <daniel-7c0/xS+95TopAS55Wn97og< at >public.gmane.org> [2013-05-05 18:02:36 +0200]:

I wanted to send a mail along those lines, and I'll address those three
questions at once:

We don't have a formal policy document for the selection process, as it is very
simple. We have done things that way for a few years now, and it has worked
well so we keep the same process:

Admins ask the mentors to select the best student application for each project
they have proposed. If they aren't really happy with how their applications
turned out, they should tell us so, and we'll drop the project from the "pool".

The GSoC Mentoring guide gives some good insight on what you should check for
when selecting a student:
http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCMentoring/selecting-a-student/

Once mentors have given us their shortlists, we have a pool of students we want
to get on board. Google assigns us a number of project slots to fill in. If
there are enough slots for all the students, we are done, and we will give back
t

Next steps for mentors?

Daniel Pocock — 2013-05-05T16:02:36


Hi,

This is the first year I volunteer to support Debian's GSoC and OPW
programs, so I don't know all the details about how people like to do things

Now that we have applications, can anybody comment on some of the following:

- is there any policy document (from the Debian admins, not Google)
describing the process for selection of projects and students?

- are there specific criteria that need to be rated or ranked when
reviewing the applications?

- what roles and responsibilities do the prospective mentors take in the
final decision process?  E.g. do the mentors need to inform Debian's SoC
admins of their preferred student, or give a rating to each student, or
something else?

- I understand the requirement for multiple mentors: do they all need to
be registered in Melange?  Some people are not keen to create Google
accounts.  Is it OK to have just one mentor per project in Melange, and
others listed on the Debian wiki?

Regards,

Daniel

Re: GSOC - Enabling free multimedia real-time communications (RTC) with Debian

Nicolas Dandrimont — 2013-05-03T11:25:56

[Cc:'ing you for the last time, please subscribe to the list[1] if you haven't
done so yet, to get all the GSoC announcements]
[1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/soc-coordination

* Jesús Pérez Rubio <jesus.perez-cm3PdzFOFfjQT0dZR+AlfA< at >public.gmane.org> [2013-05-02 11:40:25 +0200]:


Hi,

Thanks for the introduction, for stepping up for mentoring a student, and
welcome onboard!

I just accepted your connection request on melange, so you should be good
to go.

Cheers,

GSOC - Enabling free multimedia real-timecommunications (RTC) with Debian

Jesús Pérez Rubio — 2013-05-02T09:40:25

Hi,

I'm interested in co-mentor the Google Summer of Code project "Enabling
free multimedia real-time communications (RTC) with Debian" (
http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2013/Projects#Enabling_free_multimedia_real-time_communications_.28RTC.29_with_Debian
)

First of all I would like to introduce myself and Quobis, the company where
I work, and explain our motivation to participate.

I'm Jesús and I work as VoIP/Security engineer. I'm a Debian lover since I
was about fourteen and actually I'm developing my own VoIP security tool in
my free time. You can find more information about me in my blog and
Linkedin profile:
http://nicerosniunos.blogspot.com.es/
http://www.linkedin.com/in/jesusprubio

About Quobis (from http://www.quobis.com/)
"Quobis offers featured products for operators, like application servers
(IdentityCall: call authentication and TalkStorage: secure call recording).
 In addition, we provide consulting services on SIP and WebRTC and advanced
voice systems related to voice network security

Bits from the GSoC admins: student application period ends tomorrow at 1900UTC, timeline for evaluating proposals

Nicolas Dandrimont — 2013-05-01T23:17:59

Howdy GSoCers,

Summary:
 - Student application period ends May 3rd at 19:00 UTC
 - Students:
    • submit your application to Melange NOW, update the wiki summary
    • you have until May 17th to improve your proposal
 - Mentors:
    • slot allocation requests on May 6th, please tell us if you don't want one
    • we want you to rank proposals by May 17th
    • please keep your rankings private to students

We're less than two days away from the end of the student application period.
If you're a student, and if you haven't done so yet, that means that you need
to register to melange and submit your application there NOW. If you're a
mentor, and you have been contacted by students, make sure they have submitted
something to melange and to the wiki.

To make it clear, if you have not submitted anything to melange by the
deadline, you won't be able to participate.

The melange student application deadline is on May 3rd, at 19:00 UTC. To get
that in your timezone, use the "date -d < at >1367607600" command

[VAC] May 2ed --> May 6th, Transparency Camp,Washington DC, USA

Paul Tagliamonte — 2013-05-01T19:26:51

Hallo, folks,

[cc'ing soc-coordination, this information is public]


I'll be down in DC from the 2ed until the 6th for a yearly event that my
$WORK[1] throws every year called Transparency Camp[2], check it out.

I'll be onlineish, but my spare time will be taken up by social events
with co-workers I don't see all that often; so I'll be much less
responsive over email and irc.

My phone is in LDAP (for the -private folks) if I'm urgently needed for
some reason.

As usual, NMU if you need to, ask co-maints if they exist, etc etc.

I'll have my GPG key with me.


Release wheezy without me!

With love,
 T


[1]: http://sunlightfoundation.com/
[2]: http://transparencycamp.org/

Re: OPW / GSoC confusion, deadlines, wiki edits

Mònica Ramírez Arceda — 2013-05-01T12:40:59

On Wed, 2013-05-01 at 14:23 +0200, Nicolas Dandrimont wrote: 


OPW applicants should apply before 1st May 19:00 UTC. This means they
must fill the template in the wiki before this deadline, but they can
improve it later in the same way GSoC applicants do.


For OPW applicants, we apply the same criteria: they can do their
contributions/tasks during the evaluation period.

I would like to remember everyone that once applicants have done the
task, their results should be linked from the applicant template.

Cheers!

Re: OPW / GSoC confusion, deadlines, wiki edits

Nicolas Dandrimont — 2013-05-01T12:23:27

* Daniel Pocock <daniel-7c0/xS+95TopAS55Wn97og< at >public.gmane.org> [2013-05-01 10:32:45 +0200]:


Although it could help mentors that participate in both programs, I think a
joint calendar would be confusing for students, so I'm not sure if we should
provide it. TBH though, I didn't think the OPW deadline was today before you
pointed it out.


Let's clear the confusion here: for GSoC, all students can (and are even
encouraged to) edit and improve their proposal until the accepted proposals are
chosen.

The first hard deadline for that is May 22nd, for the first deduplication
meeting. The idea is that we want to know, by that date, which students we
really want to have on board. I'll write another mail on the subject of student
ranking later today.


I think it's up to the mentors to draw the line. The only important thing is
that the proposals should really, really be the student's point of view on the
project: they should reword the things that came from the mentor, and make the
proposals their own. Obviously

OPW / GSoC confusion, deadlines, wiki edits

Daniel Pocock — 2013-05-01T08:32:45

I notice that the Summer of Code page on the wiki doesn't mention OPW
anywhere, and even though the application process is similar, the OPW
deadline is only published on the OPW page, whereas the SoC page
publishes the GSoC calendar.  Maybe it will be helpful to publish a
joint calendar.

Furthermore, it is not clear what the policy is on wiki edits:

- are female candidates prohibited from updating the wiki after 19:00
UTC today (1 May, the OPW deadline), or can they make further edits and
improvements up to 3 May (the GSoC deadline)?

- are mentors permitted/encouraged to help edit student proposals (e.g.
to improve formatting, fix typos, enforce a similar structure, creating
links to related wiki pages) or must the wiki page be exclusively
completed by the student?  I don't think it would be right for a mentor
to write a student's proposal, but there is some scope to make them more
uniform for comparison.

- do coding samples have to be submitted before the deadline, or can
they be submitted during the e

Re: GSoC 2013 - Debian Android App

Daniel Pocock — 2013-04-28T16:55:03


Hi Catalin,

All projects are potentially available unless the mentor removes it from
the wiki

Debian contributors are volunteers, some of us only respond
intermittently.  If you really feel strongly that this is the right
project for you, then I would encourage you to carefully look at the
GSoC student applications from 2012 to see an example of the type of
proposal you need to write - you need to have a complete proposal on the
wiki page before Friday (3 May).

You don't need the mentor to give you a specification, it is quite OK to
propose your own ideas or ideas that you develop from discussions with
the Debian community (e.g. through IRC, local group meetings, ...)

There are also some hints on my blog about what questions you should
answer in your project proposal

It is very beneficial for you to show the GSoC team an example of your
work in an open source project - as you are interested in Android, I
presume you are a Java programmer.  A good way to show your work would
be to pick some open source

Re: GSoC proposal for 'Enhancing Debian Blends web sentinel'

Michael Banck — 2013-04-28T16:49:11

Hi,

On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 03:58:56AM +0530, Aditya Bhardwaj wrote:

I don't have any comments on your proposal for now, but if you are
looking for a small challenge to get you started with the Debian Blends
web sentinel, I could propose the following:

Right now, the package names at the beginning of each sentinel entry are
the names of the Debian packages, capitalized.  This looks weird for
quite a few package, e.g. if they are an abbreviation and are really
spelled "ABC", not "Abc".

The upstream metadata (http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamMetadata) has a
field "Name" which could be used instead of the capitalized package
name.

As Andreas Tille is away, it is unclear whether such a change would be
accepted, but it would be a nice small exercise to familiarize yourself
with the code I think.


Michael

GSoC 2013 - Debian Android App

Catalin Usurelu — 2013-04-28T12:08:48

Hi,

My name is Catalin Usurelu, I'm a second year CS student, and I am
interested in the project entitled "Debian Android App". I tried
contacting the mentor mentioned on the official ideas page, but I
haven't received any reply. Is the project still available? With whom
should I talk about it?

Thank you,
Catalin Usurelu

GSoC proposal for 'Enhancing Debian Blends websentinel'

Aditya Bhardwaj — 2013-04-26T22:28:56

Hey guys..!

I have uploaded my proposal for the project 'Enhancing Debian Blends web
sentinel' at
http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2013/StudentApplications/AdityaBhardwaj

Kindly provide me with feedback. Any kind of which is most appreciated.

Project idea:
http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2013/StudentApplications/AdityaBhardwaj

Regards
Aditya Bhardwaj

Re: hardware for SoC projects?

Tollef Fog Heen — 2013-04-26T10:19:27

]] Daniel Pocock 

Cc-ing d-a-UablvCYkmLxhl2p70BpVqQ< at >public.gmane.org


It depends.


Well, it depends on the amount of hardware they're going to need.  If
it's just a VM for deployment with not particularly high requirements,
we can just foot that without much process.  If it's some bigger
project, you need to talk to us and we'll work something out.

So basically: If you need something on debian.org, talk to us and we'll
let you know.


That'll depend on the costs.  I don't think we should approve projects
that have prohibitive costs and like real world projects, financial
constraints are one of the many one has to take into consideration.

Cheers,

hardware for SoC projects?

Daniel Pocock — 2013-04-26T09:06:43


One other thing that comes to mind from the message broker discussion:
should students be encouraged to base their projects on new hardware
requirements (e.g. a new box for running a message broker or some
database or whatever)?

Can the SoC team go to the DSA team or DPL to get provisional budget
approval, e.g. if this student/project is selected, Debian is 100%
committed to buy the hardware (or allocate existing hardware) to run the
student's project?

I don't think students should be deterred from doing projects that
involve new hardware resources, this happens in real world projects all
the time.

Re: GSoC project: fedmsg for the Debian infrastructure

Stephen Gran — 2013-04-26T07:07:35

This one time, at band camp, Simon Chopin said:

OK, that's fairly straight forward, then.  I'm not convinced yet that
this is going to work out as a debian.org service.

But, that being said, I think we need something like this, and no one
else appears to be working on it at the moment.  Go on and make it
easily installable and make people interested in it.  If there are
architectural problems we can't live with for our needs, we'll still
benefit from your work.  Thanks for doing this.

Cheers,

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Re: GSoC project: fedmsg for the Debian infrastructure

Peter Palfrader — 2013-04-25T20:49:36


Does that imply you expect us to run services on core infrastructure
machines that listen to the world?

Cheers,
weasel

Re: GSoC project: fedmsg for the Debianinfrastructure

Simon Chopin — 2013-04-25T19:49:15

Quoting Stephen Gran (2013-04-25 21:17:29)

Well, as I understand it, when sender or receiver are not online, there
is simply no message passing. If your concern is about what happens to
the backlog when the consumer comes back online, then I've already
written about that earlier today :-)

Thanks for your input,

Cheers,
Simon