Aleksey Bragin wrote:
I think you misunderstood me
ReactOS as a mentoring organization provides ideas and projects suggestions, and there is no problem if our ideas are one line descriptions - if a potential developer knows this area, he's going to prepare a big proposal, writing in details how he sees the project, and how it could be done.
Having a one liner doesn't give a student enough information to see what the project may entail. Having a project title and a small description will make the project more appealing IMO. I'd rather know as much as I can about a project I'm about to take on.
I think something like what Apache provide is great : http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCode2006
Regarding student's further work as a degree course - that's certainly great, but that's for students to decide.
I wasn't referring to anyone using this as a degree project, I just meant a degree project is a good, professional format, and it would be good to follow that format.
When I've chosen my degree projects in the past, I was given a list of potential projects from mentors. I picked the ones which sounded the most appealing from their project description. If a project was described in one or two lines, I would generally ignore it. My thoughts were that it can't be too exciting or the mentor has no interest. It always worked well and this SoC format is exactly the same.
Ged.