Hey Daniel, Since you mentioned "being both an admin and mentor at the same time is not ideal", Could you perhaps‌ elaborate on the role of an admin versus the role of a mentor ? Would you recommend GSoC students being admins ?
Can Debian apply to be an org at Google Code-In ? According to last year's timeline, <https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/timeline>the contest would be announced in about three weeks and the deadline for orgs to apply is around the first week of October. Thanks, Vishal Gupta On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 1:57 AM Daniel Pocock <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > >
