Sounds awesome. I just hope enough reliable mentors volunteer with appropriately sized tasks - and an ability to provide feedback. This sounds like it results in lots of little, possibly disconnected newcomers, rather than a small handful of focused college students.
But I love the emphasis on non-coding tasks as well; that helps everyone. Will you use the same email(s) as the GSoC admins, or separate? - Shane Mark Thomas wrote on 10/31/16 4:24 AM: > On 30/10/2016 23:22, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: >> Hi! >> >> a project I mentor got interested in: >> https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/ >> >> Has there been any attempts to have ASF >> as a mentoring organization there? > > I'm not aware of any and I'm on most (all?) lists where I would expect > it to have been discussed. > >> The current list of orgs is pretty eclectic: >> https://codein.withgoogle.com/archive/2015/organization/ >> but given that folks like Ubuntu are on the list >> I don't see why ASF shouldn't be. > > Me neither. I don't see anything blocking you taking this further. The > deadline for applying is 3rd Nov so you'll need to be quick. > > Mark > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
