Hey Pierre, I meant more of a reminder rather than discussion being sent to devel (or devel-announce, as you said..) if we are trying to catch more people.
And yeah the deadline has really bad timing with devconf and fosdem... >_< If anyone wants to help reviewing the wiki pages for what's possibly invalid, you're welcome to, but please lets move the organization related conversation into summer-coding mailing list maybe... Best regards, Radka ------------------------------ *Radka Janeková* *[email protected] <[email protected]>* On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 5:07 PM, Pierre-Yves Chibon <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 04:39:55PM +0100, Radka Janekova wrote: > > Hi Pierre, > > > This thread is a follow-up on an email that has been sent to the > > infrastructure list where someone volunteered to mentor a student > and me > > just wanting to know what this person is volunteering to mentor. > > Nope, that's different thread. > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/infrastructure@lists. > fedoraproject.org/thread/ZWIOTGRX2XMQMBMWOZ2E7OL5FEV2F2QB/ > > I was referring to this email: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/infrastructure@lists. > fedoraproject.org/message/MNQRF2BY7ZB42BWG7M2DVUMYUTDFFHCO/ > which was sent as a reply to Corey's email. > > > > What would this announcement be about? > > About "Info here, go here, write down stuff here." - relevant info for > > mentors and ideas. I don't think that someone can forcefully come up > with > > an idea, if they want to participate a simple reminder "go write down > your > > idea" is enough, they already carry that idea. > > > > And my whole point (extremely misunderstood and met with a lot of > hate) > > misunderstood clearly but hate I would assure there are none on my part. I > would > even be curious to know what made you think so, so that I can, in the > future, > avoid giving that impression again. > This entire discussion has (on my side) merely been trying to understand > your > emails with the limited info that I have. > > > was that there is no point in sending this all to... Kernels? Join > sig? > > Etc. If anything devel would be a better place. > > I can't reply for Corey who wrote the original email but I would guess he > tried > to give an heads-up to people who contributed to GSoC last year, try to > see if > they are thinking about GSoC already. > To give an example, if it hadn't been for Corey I would have had no idea > that > the dead-line for GSoC subject proposals was that close, GSoC is a summer > program in my head and we're at the beginning of February so it was really > not > in my calendar as something to think about right now. > > Devel is not necessarily the best place for these types of discussion > because > not everyone is subscribed or follows carefuly the list and also because > devel > talks about a lot of subjects that would not (imho) result is GSoC > subjects. > devel-announce would be a better place imho as it's lower traffic and thus > likely raises more attention (and hopefully reaches more of our > sub-projects). > > Hoping this clarifies a little bit the situation, > Pierre > _______________________________________________ > infrastructure mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to infrastructure-leave@lists. > fedoraproject.org >
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