On 25 January 2011 10:10, Francis Tyers <[email protected]> wrote:
> NB: All decisions herein are submitted to be approved by the PMC.
>

> * Elections results coming soon! Mikel = president. PMC = 7 wise men

ITYM Wise guys :D

>
> The main conclussions/comments were:
>
> * Gsoc 2010: 9 students granted.
>
>  - For GSoC 2011: Proposal to make votes from people in the
>    community / mentors will be consultative not mandatory. President
>    and PMC will decide the final projects for GSoC. People agreed.)
>
> * GCI: it was a good experience, time consuming but very interesting (92
> tasks - 15 students - 2/3 mentors). Take a look to the project rankings.
>

2 students in the top 20!
http://socghop.appspot.com/gci/program/show_ranking/google/gci2010

> * Elections on Apertium are about to finish. Mikel will be the
>  president. PMC member will be soon announced.  Unhammer is running
>  the show.
>

...and has our undying gratitude.

> * GSoC 2011: besides the proposal for voting changes, Fran asked for
>  someone else to organise GSoC this year. He said "I don't mind doing
>  it but it is pretty much a full time job herding cats... I mean
>  mentors/students". Nobody stepped forward.
>

I'll do it as long as I can be exempted from the project selection
process. I liked every other part of the process. Heck, even
summarising the proposals doesn't bother me too much.

> * Funding:
>    - Felipe mentions about the crowdfunding initiatives appearing
>      recently in Spain (such as www.lanzanos.com). Having no legal
>      entity such as an association is always a problem to access
>      different kinds of funding.

I couldn't think of the name at the time, but Kickstarter might be a
good choice, too. Even having a project up there might be good for
visibility.

>
> * Web:
>    - Update Tinylex / online dictionary lookup to include new pairs.
>

I said I'll do that - Netbeans just downloaded, but I have to get SVN
etc. going.

Someone should probably nag me to scribble something on the wiki about
/how/ to do it. It's not obvious.

>
> If anyone has any comments / amendments, please email them to me
> offlist. When the minutes are passed by the PMC I will add them to the
> Wiki. I think it would be good to have a page with a record of
> 'extraordinary meetings' / 'minutes'.
>



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<Leftmost> jimregan, that's because deep inside you, you are evil.
<Leftmost> Also not-so-deep inside you.

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