Pavol and Vincent, I had a conversation with Manu yesterday and reviewed some of the material that's out there. Manu had some concerns about getting enough mentors to step up, although i think that's pretty much the nature of the game. I've struggled with exactly the same thing on any student-mentorship program I've worked on (beyond just GSoC) so I'm not too surprised such concerns exist.
As I understand it, we have applied for 20 slots and according to Manu, we have 5-6 students applying thus far. And the deadline for student applications is April 8. I cannot see anywhere that indicates our progrss thus far (am I missing some page) on number of applicants, etc. Although, I think that's because such data exists on the Google site, if I recall correctly from helping out Zonker in 2009 with GSoC coordination. I would like to figure out how we can generate more noise to get more applications, more mentors and more chatter in our appropriate channels. Earlier today, a student came into the -project channel to speak with MMarek about getting a mentor and seeing that he was having a hard time locating a mentor. I quickly recommended him to post his project on the -project mailing list as that reaches more people broadly. This is pretty much the main function I performed in 2009 with keeping an eye out in the channels for "lost" students and helping to connect them to potential mentors. This function seems missing this time around and though i'm happy to help out, lack of data about our progress hinders me a bit, and more eyes watching the channels to help guide the students to good mentors is needed as well. How do we resolve this? Additionally, what can you see the marketing team doing to help out with promoting and getting a lot of attention to GS0c-openSUSE in the next two weeks? We seemed to not even need much marketing back in 2009, and yet this time, if Manu's numbers are correct, we're having the opposite effect. Bryen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
