On 24/10/2013 Ulrich Stärk wrote:
I think we have never participated in GCI because the tasks don't match well with what we do and because mentoring juvenile high-school students is something very different than mentoring adult college students and probably a lot more time-consuming too.
OpenOffice is the odd project in many respects at the ASF, but it might be that we are interested. OpenOffice alone can easily find dozens of suitable tasks, we have a lot of committers (including teachers, including native speakers of many languages) who don't code but can perfectly mentor acceptable tasks, and our mailing lists see so many things that a teen answering compulsively and writing in all caps won't make news.
I posted a note on the OpenOffice dev list: if we manage to put a reasonable number of mentors together in the allowed short time, I may ask that Apache applies. I realize that other Apache projects have difficulties in finding tasks (on the contrary, OpenOffice cannot easily find GSOC projects since development actions are either too simple -like the ones needed here- or too complex), so I'll ask that Apache applies only if the feedback leaves me reasonably convinced that OpenOffice can find and mentor enough tasks alone.
Regards, Andrea.
