On 23/01/18 22:45, mollydb wrote: > A few thoughts: > > 1) We have "too many" proposals for GSoC. They would like us to > highlight the 5 we're most excited about. In order to get a diversity of > ideas, I think each mentor who proposed more than one should select one > of their proposals.
We had 29 projects[2] go ahead in 2016, can you please tell us why you want to reduce it to 5 in 2018? Has Google already given feedback that they will reduce the number of slots for Debian? While I've personally proposed more than one idea, there are several co-mentors I'm speaking to for each of them. As long as each one has sufficient co-mentors and at least one motivated applicant why shouldn't we request slots for all of them? Personally, I'm not going to commit myself to more than one project this year. Deciding which project I will personally be mentoring will depend on the level of interest from co-mentors and students for each of the ideas. > 2) I don't think an onboarding wizard is really an appropriate position > for a student/participant. It's outside the scope of GSoC (unless > they're developing technical tools for Debian). As for Outreachy, I, in > general, believe the funding would be better used on other projects. > Can you please tell me why you feel it is outside the scope of GSoC? Google's only rules are that they have to be students and they have to write code. This tool would reduce the amount of time that mentors, including myself, spend helping applicants do things like creating PGP keys or blogs. Regards, Daniel 1. https://bits.debian.org/2016/04/welcome-summer-interns-2016.html
