This year is difficult for all of us and we lack motivation for this edition of GSoC. On the other end, it is more important than ever to push/motivate/help students.
Other Sagemath contributors than the usual could be involved in mentoring activity. I think many contributors are not really aware of this program and what it means. Furthermore, this year the GSoC period has been shortened (by half) and so it is no longer necessary to be around till end of August. This could be an extra motivation to attract new mentors. Concerning the admin part, I don't know how heavy it is, what it means exactly, etc. Of course, if we are too few ready to help/mentor for GSoC this year we can pass. Le lundi 8 février 2021 à 15:17:43 UTC+1, mmarco a écrit : > I have participated as mentor other years... but this year I just don't > think I have the needed energy. > > I think Harald's proposal to pass this year and reconsider the next one > makes sense (sadly). > El domingo, 7 de febrero de 2021 a las 17:54:07 UTC+1, > harald....@gmail.com escribió: > >> Hi, a word from my side: I would really like to stop being admin as well >> and hope someone else can take over. I'm the one writing the application >> each year and I could this time around, but in general I want to focus on >> other things after all those years. >> >> Despite that, looks like there are only two mentors. Feels like this is >> below the threshold where it makes sense to pursue this? Maybe we should >> pass this year and re-evaluate for the next one? >> >> -- Harald >> >> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/575fa23b-caa5-4216-ba51-951769175219n%40googlegroups.com.
