On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Ryan Lane <rlane32(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I think you
touch the most important point here. I'm one of the main
people who manage GSoC for KDE. KDE is the biggest org taking part in
GSoC this year in terms of number of students mentored. In addition we
are running our own program (Season of KDE) next to it. So in total
I'd say we've mentored about 100 students through these programs this
year alone. We didn't get there by accident. You know what the main
benefit of GSoC is in my opinion? Getting an organisation into the
mindset of mentoring - into the mindset of "yes we need to train new
people because they can do awesome things even if they screw up
sometimes on the way there".
+1000. I <3 that way of thinking and I'd very much like our community
to have the same attitude towards GSoC. We're a community working
towards education of the world. Participating in GSoC as a mentoring
organization is a right fit.
Agreed.
GSoC imho is not about getting code written but getting people
involved in our community. As such we should look and see how many
people remain involved after GSoC.
Finne
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