On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Aryeh Gregor
<Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Danese Cooper
<dcooper(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
The deadline for application from Open Source
Projects to Google Summer
of Code 2010 is looming (in about 48 hours), and I'm coordinating the
formal Wikimedia Foundation entry. There has already been some
excellent discussion on
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2010 but *we definitely
need more mentors*.
Unfortunately, I can't guarantee this summer that I'll have enough
time to commit to this, with my academic obligations. I might be able
to serve as a secondary mentor to help out one or more students when
I'm around, if there are projects that are close to my
interests/knowledge. I could volunteer to mentor a student who
already has another mentor who can commit full-time if necessary, in
other words.
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I'm with Aryeh on this one. I can't really commit to full-time being able
to mentor someone--I have work, school, et cetera--but I'm around
often enough to be able to lend a hand or two if needed. Plus if we get
our students on IRC, they'll have the benefit of real-time feedback from
many developers, not just their mentor.
I'm also with Trevor in saying that I'd only like to work on projects that
have some tangible benefit to a larger group of people (ie: deployed
on WMF sites, or a major new feature for MediaWiki users in general).
GSoC has been really hit or miss with our community over the past
few years. Whether it's lack of resources, or burnout, or who knows,
but the ROI of developer time has been smaller than I think we'd like
to see. We've had some great students in the past who've done some
stellar work, and we've also had projects that went nowhere and ended
up bitrotting somewhere. I think we'd all like to avoid the latter.
-Chad