+ it's also pretty hard to spin of small enough tasks which can be done in a GSoC project. Most of our projects need some really in-depth knowledge prior to hacking a smallish task :/
In this light, 33 is not that bad a number. LieGrue, strub ----- Original Message ----- > From: janI <j...@apache.org> > To: dev@community.apache.org > Cc: > Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 7:35 PM > Subject: Re: increasing GSoC visibility within the ASF > > On Apr 10, 2013 7:27 PM, "Ulrich Stärk" <u...@spielviel.de> > wrote: >> >> Folks, >> >> I perceive a low interest of our projects in GSoC. The list of projects > that submitted project ideas >> that I compiled for Sally contained 33 entries of which some are > subprojects I believe. With 138 >> PMCs plus 35 podlings, this is less than one fifth of our projects. >> >> We only had 34 ideas one week before our application was due. >> >> I run into committers that are not members of their projects PMCs who are > eager to be mentors but >> have no clue about what's going on because nobody from the PMC > forwarded > my emails to their dev lists. >> >> So the problem seems twofold: no interest and not reaching the right > people. The latter could be >> improved by simply sending to committers@ instead of pmcs@ but it's the > first that worries me. >> >> I believe GSoC and every other opportunity to attract new contributors to > our projects should be a >> key priority of our PMCs. Apparently it's not, for whatever reasons. I > could think of missing >> cycles, indifference, and wrong priorities. >> >> So what could we do to increase awareness for the opportunities GSoC > offers and that this program is >> important to the foundation? Write more emails? Ask the board to mandate > a section in board reports >> detailing the project's GSoC endeavors? Any ideas? > > one suggestion would be to make an apache page, that in short tell > 1) what should a proposal contain > 2) what is required with asf to be mentor (on a asf project) > 3) a short part about asf and our cooperation with google > 4) How to proceed. > > I know you and others have e-mailed all that information, and quite a lot > more. A page (which are referenced in the e-mail) would make it easy for > someone like me, to get the information I need fast, and if I feel it, I > can always find more details. > > Thx for doing a great job, and yes there could have been more > projects....but take it positively, we have some projects. > > Rgds > jan I. > >> >> Uli >
