Hi all,
as you may have read we are preparing our Google Summer of Code
application for the 2018 season. As LilyPond we hope to participate
under the GNU umbrella, and as Frescobaldi we apply for a second year as
our own organization.
We have invented a new role for this year: the "Community Mentor", and
for that role we are looking for a number of users who volunteer to
potentially take over that role for a project over the summer. I think
this is a great way for non-developers to get involved with LilyPond
development and help us grow our base of involved people.
The role is described on http://lilypond.org/google-summer-of-code.html
and and https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/wiki/GSoC-Guidelines. But
essentially a Community Mentor has two different responsibilities:
a)
They have to discuss the planned features with both the student/mentor
and the wider community. They are explicitly encouraged to take the
perspective of *users* here, not developers. So this is a unique chance
to influence the development of some features.
b)
They should be "watchdogs" and "catalysts" for communication. This is
one area where our GSoC projects have had its weaknesses in the past.
The Community Mentor should keep an eye on the communication between
student and mentor being active, and they should proactively encourage
and trigger communication between the two working on the project and the
community. I really hope that through this we can make the GSoC projects
an active and integrated part of oru community life.
Please look through the project suggestions on
http://lilypond.org/google-summer-of-code.html and
https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/wiki/Google-Summer-of-Code to see
if there are projects that attract your interest. It is not an issue to
register for a number of projects, as in the end noone will have to
mentor more than one actual project.
Best
Urs
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