[Soc-2012-dev] Missing week 3 reports

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi all,

Not only meant for Philipp, but for everyone:

Here's what google says about your time and energy:
http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2012/faqs#time

So! I rather see people say "sorry, I had other things to do this week" than to write up vague reports. We're all human, and we know things don't always go as planned. Holiday season can be distractive too.

However, if you *really* work for us on GSoC, it means your weekly report does not only mention what you spent time on, but it explains (and proves) the tangible result of a week's work. That's also how you schedule ahead (= define results and target deliverables).

Everyone should also consider to report several times per week in irc.freenode.net to the other students, your own mentor or to one of the other mentors. You're not on an island!

I'm very serious about this; and will definitely weight each student's performance in the evaluation we give for midterm. Check with your mentor this week to get feedback too, will save all of us surprises!

(BTW This also goes for the mentors! Check on good reporting, and well structured & agreed planning of work.)

Thanks,

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam   The Netherlands

On 12 Jun, 2012, at 17:49, Philipp Volguine wrote:

> Ok I will elaborate on my wiki page today, I didn't know it has to be that detailed.
> 
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:
> Hi Philipp,
> 
> With all due respect, but I don't consider this a good report, especially because you don't give evidence you've actually done work.
> 
> If you spend a day on studying a topic, then allocate 10% of your time in producing notes about what you've learnt.
> 
> If you spend a few days on getting familiar with Blender code, spend at least one day on producing a document that shows how the code works, and what you've learned. Very helpful for others too.
> 
> Always, at any time, be prepared to show your involvement, activity and progress. Brecht is not the only person who's interested in your progress!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -Ton-
> 
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> On 12 Jun, 2012, at 8:02, Philipp Volguine wrote:
> 
> > Whoops, here it is:
> > http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Zer000
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 8:43 PM, Tom M <letterrip at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi I seem to not have status updates from Phillipp Volguine and Andrei Simionescu please try them in asap.
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