Personally I would like to see us welcome the GSoC students on existing mail-lists rather than creating special ones because one goal of WMF Staff envolvement this year is to entice the best students to "stick around" after GSoC is over and integrating them into the real community may better help them acquire the mediawiki habit :-).
Danese
On 3/12/10 11:19 AM, Roan Kattouw wrote:
2010/3/12 Aryeh GregorSimetrical+wikilist@gmail.com:
I don't think this is a good idea for the same reason as a separate IRC chat. Wikitech-l is low-traffic enough that it's reasonable to just use that, unless we're talking about an awful lot of GSOC discussion.
I agree, separating GSoC discussion from wikitech-l won't really unclutter anything (wikitech-l is not that busy) but it'll cause certain people to miss discussions they may have useful input on.
As to Jeroen's point of not knowing who's a GSoC student working on which project and what their contact details are: just like last year [1], an annoucement of the selected projects will be made on wikitech-l. Also, we should list students, projects, mentors and contact details on [[mw:Summer of Code 2010]].
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
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