SoC 2008 is over - don't forget your final evaluation

[Manuel Breugelmans]

On Tuesday 19 August 2008 20:01:12 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Mentors and students
>
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>
> - for your participation in the KDE Community and Project? nothing. You're
> KDE developers and you're part of the community. You should stay (if you
> want) and keep on working on your code or other parts of KDE. Or
> non-coding tasks.
>
> The whole point of Summer of Code is to introduce young students to the
> Open Source Way and to KDE in particular, to find new talent for our
> contributor base. Regardless of your evaluation results, we want to keep
> you. So, tell me: what can we older developers do for you to stay?

In my opinion, the biggest motivator for staying is the usefulness and 
usability of your project. You'll find much higher staying rates amongst us 
that actually produced something good enough for our daily use. I guess you 
could observe some kind of natural selection going on here.

So, how can you influence that? Not much. Share some of that enthusiasm, 
provide constructive criticism, pray. Other than that a bag filled with KDE 
goodies would be kool.


Manuel