[FFmpeg-soc] Scheduling Thread

[Alexander Strange]

On May 2, 2008, at 4:55 PM, Mike Melanson wrote:

> Hello students,
>
> Individuals' schedules are important to projects with deadlines. If  
> you
> are planning to be away or otherwise unavailable for stretches of time
> during the summer, we need to know up front. Please respond in this
> thread if you are aware of any extended scheduled absences (1 week or
> more) between now and September 1. I don't need to know what you  
> will be
> doing; I just need to know in advance if we can expect to not hear  
> from you.
>
> NOTE: Mentors, I'm talking to you too. I want to know when you will  
> be away.
>
> As many of you know, I'm a hermit who never travels anywhere so I  
> expect
> to be available all the way through to September 1.
>
> NON-COMMUNICATION POLICY: In addition to seeing constant progress on  
> SVN
> code, we want constant evidence that students are alive. You can
> correspond with your mentor privately, or you can openly correspond  
> with
> the list. However, if you go for more than 7 days without  
> communicating
> with any of us through any channel (and you have not indicated that  
> you
> will be away, as stipulated above), we start writing emails and trying
> to get in touch. If we don't hear from you for 14 days, we will
> unceremoniously drop you from the project.
>
> So let's have those vacation schedules. Thanks.

I think I'll be away for a weekend or two, but not for anything longer  
than that.