Hi Tony,
Well, I still think there might be easier ways of getting students to stick
with Wikimedia/MediaWiki over the long term - one obvious idea is to pay
students who had useful projects to maintain or complete those projects,
post-GSoC - but nevertheless, if you're willing to put in the work to
create a WMF outreach/mentorship program, I support you; I'm sure any such
effort is better than nothing.
-Yaron
On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Tony Thomas <01tonythomas(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hey Yaron,
On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 5:34 PM, Yaron Koren <yaron(a)wikiworks.com> wrote:
But I hope that there's a better solution for
it other than essentially
requiring potential students to become detectives, trying to find
interesting coding challenges that no one has proposed for GSoC etc. Maybe
the solution is for you and others to do this work yourself - talking to
MW/WMF developers to find more tasks and drum up enthusiasm among potential
mentors - essentially what you did before, but now as an administrator and
not a potential student.
Thank you for the trust Yaron, but here we are talking not only about new
tasks being up in Phabricator for students to charge upon, but to increase
the quality of students itself before they start working on the project.
Performance report of a student in that kind of a program even can make it
easy for a mentor to better evaluate his/her proposal (considering past
contributions matter). More than that, this would be one good option for
post-GSoC students to still stick with the community too - as they can
either participate, or even be mentors again.
Yeah - we are trying to solve actually two problems here - (a) better
community code review and codebase aware students before GSoC (b) making
students stick back with Wikimedia after they complete their project.
Thanks,
Tony Thomas <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:01tonythomas>
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