Hi, On Mon, Apr 02, 2012, Jakub Jermar wrote: > On 2.4.2012 8:51, Sean Bartell wrote: > > My proposal (as a very early draft) is publicly available at > > Are you sure about the public availability of the proposal? I was under > the impression that all proposals are inherently private (i.e. only the > students, the org admins and the org's mentors can see them).
By default, yes. There's an option to make it public to anyone with the URL. I and the other student who shared her proposal have enabled it. > > There's one question I'd like to ask about your approach to GSoC. How do > > you most frequently communicate with students? I checked the mailing > > list archives for 2011 and I see only occasional student updates. > > Yeah, this was unfortunately the trend of our first participation in > GSoC last year. There were, IMO, several cause of it: > > * students for some reason seemed to prefer 1:1 private communication; > we are going to revert this trend and suppress this mode of > communication this year unless absolutely necessary > > * part of the discussions took place on IRC; we would like to encourage > open communication on our ML and IRC > > * two of our last year's students were from the same country, so we met > in person a couple of times It's good to know you're working on improving this. In my experience, the most common communication problem is simply not communicating enough. Thanks, Sean Bartell _______________________________________________ HelenOS-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.modry.cz/cgi-bin/listinfo/helenos-devel
