Super Early GSOC Thread

[David Edmundson]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Martin Klapetek <martin.klapetek at gmail.com
> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 6:50 PM, David Edmundson <
> david at davidedmundson.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> Google code-in has now finished, we need to think about GSOC.
>>
>> I know this is rather early but  last year we were a bit caught out with
>> dealing with random people emailing the mailing list.
>>
>> *Who here is interested in being a mentor?*
>
>
> Me.
>
>
>> *Does anyone have any ideas for projects?
>> *
>
>
> Not yet :/
>
>
>> **
>> *Proposed action plan:*
>>
>> For when perspective students email us (based on comments from last year):
>>  - Instead of responding to GSOC threads on the ML we just forward them
>> to a wiki page with the basic information.
>>
>>  - Any students who want to discuss their proposal before adding to
>> melange can email a tiny mailing list of everyone who's volunteered to be a
>> mentor.. we will place a link to this on our wiki.
>>
>>  - We ask potential students to showcase their existing open source work
>> (in any project, in any langauge whatever, even just filing in userbase)..
>> if they've done nothing we ignore them.
>>
>
> Better formulation - as you said on irc - prefer those with experience,
> but don't ignore complete newcomers.
>


Last year we spent ages helping student's with their proposals and then at
the end of it when it came to picking candidates we instantly discounted
everyone who hadn't done anything.

That was a waste of both our time and theirs. Reviewing and commenting on a
proposal takes a lot of time.

Changing what I said, if a student comes to us wanting us to comment on and
review their proposal and they haven't got any existing work we should just
point them to the JJs and help them with that _before_ we spend our time
even looking at their proposal.

Better?

David

Unrelated: We should do a "get involved bugfixing/writing text plugins"
weekend sometime in early Feb to try and get some new faces involved, those
motivated by loving KDE and not just GSOC money.


>
>> (note to any students reading this.. start hacking now!)
>>
>
> Cheers
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