<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:avarab@gmail.com">avarab@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 08:52, Graham Jones<br>
<<a href="mailto:grahamjones139@googlemail.com">grahamjones139@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Please give this a bit of thought, and add any ideas to the Wiki page! If<br>
> you don't have chance to do that, an email to me will do and I will add it.<br>
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Here's my idea:<br>
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Can we please not make things like "Develop a Simple, Stand-Alone<br>
Editor for New Users" part of the GSOC list.<br>
<br>
I've seen numerous failed and dead-on-arrival GSOC projects with<br>
various projects that usually turned out that way because<br>
inexperienced students were being handed projects that were too<br>
ambitious and even if they were finished saw decay because nobody else<br>
was interested in maintaining them.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think a more useful criticism would include some specific ideas...</div><div><br></div><div>I agree that "Simple Editor for New Users" is way too nebulous and should probably not be handed to a student. But perhaps someone has some ideas on how to break up such an idea into more manageable chunks of work that we could hand to students.</div>
<div><br></div><div>For example, one of the requirements in the "simple editor" that I've been sketching in my doodle-notebook is to have an extremely fast "nearest way" lookup. I imagine something like that could be written, documented, and demonstrated in one Summer.</div>
<div><br></div><div>How about we ask a student to conduct a UX review (sit down with random people and have them interact with OSM and observe) and write a report?</div></div>