Hi everybody,
I'd like to thank everybody who has participated in GSoC in any way this year, including all the students who were not selected, students who had to withdraw, students who didn't pass and those who did, mentors new and old and every other member of the community who has interacted with the GSoC and Outreachy programs. Overall, despite some problems, there are a lot of good things that have come out of the program this year in both coding and community growth. There are also some open questions and I'd like to encourage people to share their own views on them: Who wants to be part of the admin team in 2019? Personally, I am going to step back from that role with GSoC and I want to make that clear now so other people can step forward well before registration opens in January. I feel an organization like Debian needs at least 3 people as admins who have strong experience mentoring and personally, I found that being both an admin and mentor at the same time is not ideal. A related question to contemplate: is it a role for the same people every year, or is it a role that can or should be rotated so people alternate between admin and mentoring? How to approach the question of being an umbrella organization in future years? It would be really helpful to clarify this before projects are advertised. This year the question came up after mentors and students had already started putting in effort. My own view on this is that if the admin team is large enough and at least 2 members of the admin team are willing to support the umbrella organization concept, it is viable but if there are not enough admins to support it then it can not go ahead. Regards, Daniel
