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

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