I think this is a good idea if you have the time. I'm certain the OpenMeetings project will be very happy to provide a teleconferencing solution.
Ross On 11 April 2013 15:54, Suresh Marru <sma...@apache.org> wrote: > Lots of good thoughts already, and I agree with Ross it is the quality and > not quantity. > > But I think not all projects have the awareness and what they can get out > of GSoC. There is a lot of good documentation as Uli and others have > pointed out. PMC's have to be motivated to look at them. Email is good for > most of the asynchronous communication needs, but my 2 cents will be to > conduct an open forum webeminar and reach it out to all committers and > pmcs. My experience if some one can ask questions directly it will > bootstrap better interest than emails notifications. If such thing will be > useful, I am willing to organize and coordinate. > > Suresh > > On Apr 10, 2013, at 1:26 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? > > > > Uli > > -- Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Programme Leader (Open Development) OpenDirective http://opendirective.com
