Re: Google Summer of code and Outreachy participation

[Jaminy Prabaharan]

Hi all,

Debian has been accepted as one of the organizations for GSoC this year as
well.
It's time for students to discuss their application ideas with us.

Good luck.

Best Regards,
Jaminy.


On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 7:09 AM Abhijith PA  wrote:

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> Debian is applying as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer
> of Code 2021 [1] and Outreachy May 2021 round [2] as we have done
> previous years.
>
> This is a call for project proposals for both programs.
>
> If you have a project idea related to Debian and can mentor (or can
> coordinate the mentorship with some Debian Developer) , please visit
> GSoC [3] and Outreachy [4] Debian wiki pages and submit proposals as
> instructed.
>
> Please note that this year the project hours for Google Summer of Code
> has been reduced to 175 hours. Please consider this while submitting
> your projects.
>
> We encourage everybody to propose projects for both GSoC and Outreachy
> wherever it is possible. (Consider breaking bigger projects into
> smaller chunks for GSoC or vice versa for Outreachy).
>
> We are expecting to receive maximum submissions by 22 Feb 2021.
>
> If you have questions, please contact us on:
> IRC #debian-outreach or the debian-outreach mailing list [5].
>
>
> Abhijith
> on behalf of the Debian outreach team.
>
>
> [1]  https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/
> [2]  https://www.outreachy.org/
> [3]  https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2021/
> [4]  https://wiki.debian.org/Outreachy/
> [5]  https://lists.debian.org/debian-outreach/
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Re: Google Summer of code and Outreachy participation

[Jaminy Prabaharan]

Hi Antonio,


On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 3:35 AM Antonio Terceiro 
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks for organizing.
>
> On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 07:09:33AM +0530, Abhijith PA wrote:
> >
> > Debian is applying as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer
> > of Code 2021 [1] and Outreachy May 2021 round [2] as we have done
> > previous years.
> >
> > This is a call for project proposals for both programs.
> >
> > If you have a project idea related to Debian and can mentor (or can
> > coordinate the mentorship with some Debian Developer) , please visit
> > GSoC [3] and Outreachy [4] Debian wiki pages and submit proposals as
> > instructed.
>
> I have posted
> https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2021/Projects/DebianCI


Good to hear this. :)


>
>
> On the Outreachy platform, however,
> https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/debian/ says "The community
> coordinators have not submitted this community to participate in the May
> 2021 to August 2021 Outreachy internship round." This needs to be done
> before I can submit a project.
>

Thanks for bringing this up.
I have submitted the Outreachy application and requested funding for two
interns.
Once these are approved, we'll be able to submit the project proposal for
Outreachy as well. :)

Best Regards,
Jaminy.

Re: Outreachy / GSoC this year?

[Jaminy Prabaharan]

Hi,

We planned to apply this year as well. :)
The decision was finalized by the team last week. So you didn't miss any
announcements. :)

Best regards,
Jaminy.


On Mon, 27 Jan 2020, 15:54 Andreas Tille,  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have not yet seen any Outreachy / GSoC announcement this year.
> As far as I know the application period has started.  Will Debian
> participate this year?
>
> Sorry if its just me who missed some announcement.
>
> Kind regards
>
>   Andreas.
>
> --
> http://fam-tille.de
>
>

Re: About the slot in Google Summer of Code

[Jaminy Prabaharan]

You are suggested to contact the mentor before drafting the proposal and
submit the proposal with mentor's feedback before the deadline.

Good luck!

Best regards,
Jaminy.

On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 8:21 AM fuujiro  wrote:

> That is to say, it is not necessary to contact mentor now. I can submit
> the proposal directly, slot is decided after I apply. Is that right?
>
> Cheers,
> fuujiro
>
> Olly Betts  于2019年4月2日周二 上午10:26写道：
>
>> On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 10:03:30PM -0400, fuujiro wrote:
>> > I’m interested in *Debian* & Linux/Unix. Wanted to contribute some code
>> to
>> > Debian in *Google summer of Code*.
>> >
>> > Is there a free *slot*? If yes, I will start a proposal soon without
>> vain
>> > efforts.
>>
>> You have things backwards - students apply, then once the student
>> application deadline has passed each org looks at the proposals
>> received and request slots.  Only then does Google allocate slots.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Olly
>>
>
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Ziyang Feng ( fuujiro )
> College of Computer Science and Technology, DaLian University of Technology
> MP: 15524892259
> E- mail: fuujiro1...@gmail.com
> 地址：辽宁省大连市大连理工大学西山学生生活区7舍608
> Address: Building 7, number 608, XiShan students' living area, DaLian
> University of Technology, DaLian, China
>

Re: GSoC 2019 admin team and Organization apllication.

[Jaminy Prabaharan]

Molly,

I think we should email ASAP. Do you have the draft of the email from last
year now?

Best Regards,
Jaminy.

On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 4:08 PM Molly de Blanc  wrote:

> I think at the last meeting we made a plan to reach out to -project,
> -outreach, and -devel, but failed to assign the task to someone. Would
> someone take this task on?
>
> The purpose of the email will be to ask people to submit project ideas
> by February 4th, so we can work on our org application before then, and
> then wait to submit it until/if we have enough project submissions.
>
> Cheers,
> Molly
>
> On 2/1/19 3:38 AM, Alexander Wirt wrote:
> > On Thu, 31 Jan 2019, Jaminy Prabaharan wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >> Thanks for  the consideration, Alex.
> >> Since the Organization application closes soon, it would be great if we
> >> could have a discussion in this thread to complete the application.
> > I am not sure if it makes sense, by now we have only one project..
> >
> > What do the others think?
> >
> > Alex
> >
>
>

Re: [TREASURER #2345] AutoReply: Re: requesting flight funding approval

[Jaminy Prabaharan]

Hi Bruno,

On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 11:33 AM Bruno Magalhães  wrote:

> Hi Milena,
>
>
> Jaminy is also attending the summit, and she’s part of the admin team. Get
> in touch with her, as she will be able to help you with this process, but
> also for meeting each other at arrival or at the summit hotel.
>

Unfortunately, I won't be attending this year. Molly and Milena will be
joining the summit this year.


> Best of luck,
>
> Bruno
>

Best Regards,
Jaminy.

Re: GSoC weekly report of Distro Tracker Improvements (Week 12)

[Jaminy Prabaharan]

Hi Dashamir,

Dashamir Hoxha,  wrote:

>  For example until now I had assumed that
> Jaminy was a boy (I don't have a clue on Indian names, it sounded to me
> like Jeremy or
> something like that).
>

Then, you misunderstood two things earlier here. I'm not a boy and not an
Indian. I'm a girl and a Sri Lankan. :)


> For future GSoC, maybe we can propose that students prepare a short video
> (5-10 min)
> presenting their project and their work.
>

Since we had shorter time period to plan for it, we couldn't include
much.Hope to add them in the future. Thanks for your suggestions.

This can be one of the required deliveries and
> included (as a link) on the final report. For this year maybe it is too
> late.
>

It's not late yet.He could include it since the final submission is not
done yet.

>
> Regards,
> Dashamir
>

Best Regards,
Jaminy.

Re: selecting Debian mentors for the mentor summit

[Jaminy Prabaharan]

Hi,

As a mentor, all of them are eligible to attend the summit since they're
already familiar with Debian to represent there.
The mentoring cannot be quantitatively measured and compared.I would
suggest to go for simple queue (first come first serve) rather
than the complex algorithms.

We could also split the fund for three if one of them is traveling from
nearby country. So, I would suggest the interested people to
include their names in the waiting list. Others might get the chance next
time as far as they continue to be a mentor.

Best Regards,
Jaminy.

On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 10:29 PM, Manas Kashyap 
wrote:

>
> Milena Lavanchyhttps://github.com/MilenaLavanchy
> <https://github.com/MilenaLavanchy>
>
> Jaminy Prabaharan
> https://github.com/Jaminy
> https://salsa.debian.org/Jaminy-guest
>
> *Urvika Gola*
> https://salsa.debian.org/urvikagola-guest
> https://github.com/Urvika-gola
>
> Dashamir Hoxha
> https://github.com/dashohoxha
>
>
> *Lucas Kanashiro*https://qa.debian.org/develope
> r.php?login=kanash...@debian.org
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *https://github.com/lucaskanashiro
> <https://github.com/lucaskanashiro>Chirayu
> Desaihttps://github.com/chirayudesai
> <https://github.com/chirayudesai>https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=chirayudes...@gmail.com
> <https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=chirayudes...@gmail.com>Pranav
> Jainhttps://github.com/pranavjain <https://github.com/pranavjain>Molly De
> Blanchttps://github.com/mollydb <https://github.com/mollydb>Karen M.
> Sandlerhttps://github.com/karensandler
> <https://github.com/karensandler>Olly Bettshttps://github.com/ojwb
> <https://github.com/ojwb>*
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 10:18 PM, Manas Kashyap <
> manaskashyapt...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I was going through the profile of the mentors who showed their interest
>> in Mentor summit , and i found two best candidate (just a contributors
>> point of view ) for this mentor summit (as Dashamir Hoxa can't go and
>> Daniel Don't want to)  , therefore , i request the Debian community to look
>> at their profile and select the person who has more knowledge and more
>> contribution in open source projects (especially Debian) as its one of the
>> prestigious Summit where we have to represent Debian .
>>
>> Therefore i Request the Mentors who are at the Admin team to review it ,
>> and select the right guy or girl .
>>
>> Thank you
>> Manas Kashyap
>> wiki.debian.org/ManasKashyap
>> about.me/manaskashyap
>>
>> https://github.com/MilenaLavanchy
>> https://github.com/Jaminy
>> https://salsa.debian.org/urvikagola-guest
>> https://salsa.debian.org/Jaminy-guest
>> https://github.com/Urvika-gola
>> https://github.com/dashohoxha
>> https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=kanash...@debian.org
>> https://github.com/lucaskanashiro
>> https://github.com/chirayudesai
>> https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=chirayudes...@gmail.com
>> https://github.com/pranavjain
>> https://github.com/mollydb
>> https://github.com/karensandler
>> https://github.com/ojwb
>>
>>
>>
>

GSoC- End of final week, Final code submission and Further contribution

[Jaminy Prabaharan]

Hi all,

Hope you all had an amazing coding experience for three months. It's time
to showcase it. As a reminder, the final work product should be submitted
before 14th of August for the final evaluation.Many of you all haven't
submitted it yet.Don't keep this as a last minute work. Also, send all your
pending weekly reports and the summary for the final weekly report (week
13). The mentor evaluation would start from August 14th.

You are welcome to keep contributing for the community after GSoC. It's an
ongoing process.

Feel free to reply here if you have any questions regarding the final
submission and if you need to connect to a team in Debian for continuing
the work after GSoC.

All the best for the final submission! :)

Best Regards,
Jaminy.

Re: selecting Debian mentors for the mentor summit

[Jaminy Prabaharan]

Hi all,

I would like to represent the admin team at the summit.

Best Regards,
Jaminy

On Fri, 3 Aug 2018 03:21 Daniel Pocock,  wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> Google has announced the mentor summit will be held on 12-14 October 2018
>
> Debian can choose two mentors who will be fully funded to attend.
> Officially, Google allocated USD 2,200 for Debian to pay their flights
> and visas but if the cost is more than that mentors can request top-up
> funding from the DPL. just like any other proposed travel and the DPL
> will advise if Debian is willing to pay the difference.
>
> In the past, Debian has given priority to mentors who never attended the
> summit before.  If anybody (including students) would like to make
> suggestions about alternatives or enhancements to this algorithm, please
> do so, the existing algorithm is not set in stone.
>
> Personally, I've attended twice and will not be volunteering to go this
> year but I believe it is a good place to meet people from many other
> communities.  I'd encourage anybody who is interested to reply on this
> thread.
>
> Regards,
>
> Daniel
>
>
>

Re: GSoC: Second phase and Debconf session

[Jaminy Prabaharan]

Hi,

Thank you all for those who responded with your talk submissions.
Since some of you all haven't got the bursary, we might plan for video call
to present remotely depending on the necessity.
We'll give the update about it soon after we finalize them.Stay tuned!

Best Regards,
Jaminy.

On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 4:01 PM, Jaminy Prabaharan 
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Congratulations to all those who completed their first phase.
> It's a gentle reminder that the quality and the amount of the work
> expected for second phase completion is more than the first phase
> completion.As you all know, the second evaluation would be from July 9th to
> 13th.
>
> We're planning to host a GSoC session for DebConf in Taiwan.Reply to this
> mail (with an abstract of your talk) if you're planning to attend DebConf
> this year and interested in presenting your project there.
>
> Best Regards,
> Jaminy
>

GSoC: Second phase and Debconf session

[Jaminy Prabaharan]

Hi all,

Congratulations to all those who completed their first phase.
It's a gentle reminder that the quality and the amount of the work expected
for second phase completion is more than the first phase completion.As you
all know, the second evaluation would be from July 9th to 13th.

We're planning to host a GSoC session for DebConf in Taiwan.Reply to this
mail (with an abstract of your talk) if you're planning to attend DebConf
this year and interested in presenting your project there.

Best Regards,
Jaminy

GSoC - Reminder to submit the first evaluation

[Jaminy Prabaharan]

Hi all,


Allocate 10 minutes of your time to complete the first evaluation before
June 15, 2018
to avoid the last minute rush.



Best Regards,
Jaminy.

Re: Students - GSoC First Evaluation and weekly reports

[Jaminy Prabaharan]

> I think that it could be useful if the page that lists all the projects
> also includes some links/references for each project,
> like the repository of the project, the issues, any blogs or wikis that
> show the progress of the project, etc.
> In case that someone is interested about the progress of a project he can
> find easily the relevant information.
>
>
Thank you for the suggestion, Dashamir.
I have updated the students2018

list as  per the suggestion.Let me know if there are any more
questions/concerns.


Best Regards,
Jaminy.

Students - GSoC First Evaluation and weekly reports

[Jaminy Prabaharan]

Hi all,

Hope you all are aware that we have first evaluation on next week (i.e June
11th-15th) where students could give feedback about your mentors and
mentors could give feedback about your students.
Make sure that you accomplish the target set for first phase before that.

Some important points about weekly updates,


   - Weekly updates in the mailing list would be a platform to review your
   progress by anyone on the  community.(It depends on you and your mentors
   whether you 'CC' your mentors or not.But you would miss the chance of
   public communication with your mentors where someone else from the
   community could also comment on it).We haven't decided any alternative yet
   for sending weekly updates.


   - When reviewed through weekly updates, some you all have missed the
   weekly reports for week 1 and week 3.Make sure you send all weekly
   update/aggregated update before June 10, 16:00 UTC.
   - Also, send the weekly reports for the week before Saturday,16:00 UTC
   from next week.

If you have any questions/concerns regarding weekly reports/first
evaluation, reply to this thread.

Best Regards,
Jaminy.

Re: Evaluation reports

[Jaminy Prabaharan]

Hi Thomas,

Both mentors and students will have questionnaire to fill as a part of the
first evaluation.
If you scroll down the first page, you could see the questionnaire the
students get.

On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 8:34 PM, Thomas Levine <_...@thomaslevine.com> wrote:

> Some students have asked me if they need to submit something for the
> evaluation period. I haven't found anything about this in the directions
> from Google; did we say something about it somewhere? As far as I know,
> students only need to submit their normal updates (and this requirement
> is just from Debian, not Google).
>
> I checked these pages.
> https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/help/evaluations
> https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Outreach/Policies
>
>

Re: CC to mentor (was: GSoC weekly report of Alexandre Viau for week 1)

[Jaminy Prabaharan]

Hi Daniel,

The reason that I have asked to CC them is that they could have feedback
from their mentors on their weekly progress.Since most of the communication
occurs as private, this would be a thread for public communication between
mentor and student.This would avoid any conflicts arising due to the
miscommunication in future.

Best Regards,
Jaminy

On Tue, 29 May 2018 02:41 Daniel Pocock,  wrote:

> On 28/05/18 17:55, Jaminy Prabaharan wrote:
> > Hi Alexandre Viau,
> >
> > It would help your mentors to understand your progress if you CC them
> > for weekly updates.All might not have subscribed to this mailing list.
>
> This question comes up a lot on mailing lists.  There is another side to
> it: if the mentor is subscribed and they are added on CC, they will
> receive two copies of the email.
>
> An easier solution might be:
> - don't visibly CC your mentor
> - if your mentor tells you they are not subscribed, please BCC them, but
> only if they ask you to
>
> Regards,
>
> Daniel
>
>

Re: GSoC weekly report of Alexandre Viau for week 1

[Jaminy Prabaharan]

Hi Alexandre Viau,

It would help your mentors to understand your progress if you CC them for
weekly updates.All might not have subscribed to this mailing list.

Best Regards,
Jaminy.

On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 1:09 AM, Alexandre Viau  wrote:

> Hello,
>
> This is my weekly report for week 1.
>
> = master-worker communications =
>
> I have spent most of week 1 working on communications between the master
> and worker components of autodeb. autodeb-worker was already capable of
> obtaining jobs and submitting job results prior to week 1. However, it
> was not sending any more information than "success" or "failure".
>
> autodeb-worker now sends full job logs to the master. The master
> displays the logs on the web interface for the users to read or to
> obtain via the jobs API at /api/jobs//log.txt.
>
> = graceful shutdown =
>
> Both the master and the worker will now gracefully shutdown when they
> are sent SIGINT or SIGTERM. At first, they only responded to SIGINT
> until I realized that systemd sends SIGTERM.
>
> When the worker receives SIGINT/SIGTERM, it cancels currently-running
> jobs with SIGKILL, requeues them on the master, deletes the working
> directories and shuts down. This typically takes less than one second.
>
> = setting runner count =
>
> The worker is now capable of running multiple jobs at the same time,
> this is set via the command line flags.
>
> = api improvements =
>
> The API now returns more than error codes, it returns json-formatted
> error messages.
>
> = infrastructure =
>
> I have made some improvements to the ansible scripts:
>  - setup sbuild schroots for the workers
>  - obtain SSL certificated with letsencrypt for the masters
>  - create purge playbooks for uninstalling everything and starting fresh
>  - store private variables using ansible vault + document in the README
>
> = packaging =
>
> I have completed a couple of releases during the week: 0.4.0. 0.5.0,
> 0.5.1, 0.6.0 and 0.6.1.
>
> These releases contain the following improvements:
>  - services files: add install key
>  - postinst: add autodeb to the sbuild group so that it can use sbuild
>  - allow setting the server url via autodeb-server.conf
>  - depend on new build dependencies
>  - include all possible flags in autdodeb[worker|server].service
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Alexandre Viau
> av...@debian.org
>
>

Re: GSoC-Community Bonding Period

[Jaminy Prabaharan]

Hi Dashamir,

You could also let admins(coordinators) know about the communication
breakdown of students with mentors.We could analyse the problem
accordingly.It's better if you could emphasize your students early about
the cruciality of communication with you.

Best Regards,
Jaminy

On Wed, 25 Apr 2018 13:18 Dashamir Hoxha,  wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 8:20 AM, Daniel Pocock  wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 25/04/18 05:30, Alexandre Viau wrote:
>> > On 2018-04-24 11:08 PM, Dashamir Hoxha wrote:
>> >> How do the mentors drop a student when they realize he is not serious
>> or
>> >> suitable about the project?
>>
>> Please be careful with comments about students on the public mailing list
>>
>> I realize that in some other mailing lists outside Debian there are
>> discussions like that but here we try to be optimistic about all the
>> projects even though some students may be struggling with the project.
>>
>
> Failing students is not a taboo, it is an inevitable part of GSoC,
> as shown also by statistics and as described on the FLOSS manuals:
> http://write.flossmanuals.net/gsoc-mentoring/warning-signs/
>
>

GSoC-Community Bonding Period

[Jaminy Prabaharan]

Hi,

Congratulations to all students who have been selected for GSoC.To those
who haven't get the chance this time, you have other opportunities to
involve with the community as Daniel mentioned in the previous mail.

Attn: GSoC students

According to the GSoC timeline, next three weeks are for community bonding
period.Make use of this period to get to know your mentors and the
community.

It's advisable to select your communication platform, blogging platform and
project platform early by discussing with your mentors during this period.

Communication would be the crucial part of GSoC.Therefore, make sure that
you update your progress weekly and keep communicating with your mentors
through IRC/mail.If you face any communication breakdown with your mentors,
feel free to write to admins about it.

Also, create your Debian wiki pages as mentioned in the last mail in the
mailing list.

Best Regards,
Jaminy

GSoC applicants' next process

[Jaminy Prabaharan]

Hi GSoC applicants,

Thank you all for your interest in Debian with Google Summer of Code.
Google Summer of Code is one of the reward you get for your open source
contribution.Google gives limited slots for each organisation and the
selection process doesn't  'only' depend on your project proposals.

Therefore, it would be helpful in selection process if you could
start/continue your  contributions and discuss about the projects and your
skills matching with your mentor through IRC/mail.

Best Regards,
Jaminy.

Re: Enrollment proof

[Jaminy Prabaharan]

Your project proposal has been received in the GSoC portal as final,
Harshit.

Best Regards,
Jaminy

On Wed, 4 Apr 2018 21:54 Harshit Joshi,  wrote:

> Mentors/Admin
>
> Initially my enrollment proof was rejected, then I reupload my enrollment
> proof and it has been accepted this time.
>
> Can you please confirm that you have received my proposal for Extracting
> data from PDF invoices and bills for financial accounting?
>
>
> Regards
> Harshit Joshi
> B. Tech, First Year
> Cluster Innovation Center
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>
>

GSoC final submission

[Jaminy Prabaharan]

Hi all,

Less than two hours left for the GSoC project proposal final submission.I
could see some more project proposals as draft in the portal.Make sure you
submit as early as possible for the evaluation.

Debian student's wiki page  creation is not considered for this deadline.

Best Regards,
Jaminy

GSoC project proposal review from mentors through mailing list

[Jaminy Prabaharan]

To all students who are waiting for the feedback from the mentor,

You might not have received the feedback since your project proposal might
not have reached the mentor.Please make sure that you CC your mentor and
clearly mention the title of the project as subject when you're sending to
the mailing list for the review.

Also ensure that you have given access to your mentor to comment on the
Google doc.

Best Regards,
Jaminy

Re: student wiki pages, tagging the pages

[Jaminy Prabaharan]

Hi Kai Chung,

It would be helpful to know more about the applicant apart from the project
proposal.It is suggested to update the Debian wiki pages after the
application through the official website.

Best Regards,
Jaminy

On Mon, 19 Mar 2018 19:06 殷啟聰 | Kai-Chung Yan, <seamli...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Is it mandatory to also submit them on Debian's Wiki? Now that over 30
> students have submitted their proposals using Google Docs, that would seem
> to me double work.
>
> Jaminy Prabaharan 於 2018年03月17日 星期六 01:55 下午 寫道:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have created a Debian wiki page for adding all the project submissions
> from the students.
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2018-StudentApplications
>
> It would be great if all mentors suggest and help your students to add
> their projects there.
>
> Feel free to reply to this mail if you have any doubts/ideas.
>
> Best Regards,
> Jaminy.
>
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 2:39 AM, Daniel Pocock <dan...@pocock.pro> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> In the past, students created their applications on the wiki
>>
>> Now we also have processes for them to fill out details on the GSoC and
>> Outreachy web sites but do we still want them to create a basic wiki
>> page introducing themselves?
>>
>> Note that I'm not referring to pages with the project URL, only basic
>> wiki user pages like https://wiki.debian.org/DanielPocock
>>
>> Asking students to put some categories on their page (e.g. a GSoC tag, a
>> tag for their country) could help to quickly see a list of people in a
>> particular country or school.  E.g. if we can see all the applicants in
>> Brazil, somebody from the local community there may want to contact them
>> about MiniDebConf in April, even if their mentor wasn't aware of that
>> event and hadn't been able to tell them about it.
>>
>> https://wiki.debian.org/Brasil/Eventos/MiniDebConfCuritiba2018
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>>
>
>

Re: student wiki pages, tagging the pages

[Jaminy Prabaharan]

Hi Yash,

Add your application there in the above link with the format.
Reply here if you face any problem doing it.

Best Regards,
Jaminy

On Sat, 17 Mar 2018 12:17 Yash Agarwal, <yashagarwal...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> Do I need to add my proposal to a new page of format
> https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2016/StudentApplications/YashAgarwal?
> Also similar to 2016, shall I add my proposal to the bottom of
> https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2016/StudentApplications?
>
> Thanks
>
> Yash
>
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 12:13 PM, Pranav Jain <cont...@pranavjain.me>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jaminy,
>> Could you please follow the format give on this page?
>> https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2016/StudentApplications
>>
>> Adding a field for creating a new page makes the task easy for everyone :)
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 11:25 AM, Jaminy Prabaharan <jamin...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I have created a Debian wiki page for adding all the project submissions
>>> from the students.
>>>
>>> https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2018-StudentApplications
>>>
>>> It would be great if all mentors suggest and help your students to add
>>> their projects there.
>>>
>>> Feel free to reply to this mail if you have any doubts/ideas.
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Jaminy.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 2:39 AM, Daniel Pocock <dan...@pocock.pro>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> In the past, students created their applications on the wiki
>>>>
>>>> Now we also have processes for them to fill out details on the GSoC and
>>>> Outreachy web sites but do we still want them to create a basic wiki
>>>> page introducing themselves?
>>>>
>>>> Note that I'm not referring to pages with the project URL, only basic
>>>> wiki user pages like https://wiki.debian.org/DanielPocock
>>>>
>>>> Asking students to put some categories on their page (e.g. a GSoC tag, a
>>>> tag for their country) could help to quickly see a list of people in a
>>>> particular country or school.  E.g. if we can see all the applicants in
>>>> Brazil, somebody from the local community there may want to contact them
>>>> about MiniDebConf in April, even if their mentor wasn't aware of that
>>>> event and hadn't been able to tell them about it.
>>>>
>>>> https://wiki.debian.org/Brasil/Eventos/MiniDebConfCuritiba2018
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Daniel
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>>
>> Pranav Jain
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Yash Agarwal
> https://yashagarwal.in
>

Re: Tools for communication, coordination and project management

[Jaminy Prabaharan]

I agree the fact that it won't be an official solution.(previously we
maintained some of the projects there).But it would be better if we could
maintain in a common platform to manage all projects.

On Thu, 8 Mar 2018 16:11 Alexander Wirt, <formo...@formorer.de> wrote:

> On Thu, 08 Mar 2018, Dashamir Hoxha wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 7:19 AM, Alexander Wirt <formo...@formorer.de>
> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 08 Mar 2018, Jaminy Prabaharan wrote:
> > >
> > > > We could request all mentors to manage their projects there.
> > > I will step done as admin if we will start to use github as official
> > > solution.
> > >
> > > And I will probably also reject my gsoc proposal in that case.
> > >
> >
> > I don't know what an "official solution" is, but of course I would not
> > support
> > an official solution if it may upset somebody.
> >
> > We may suggest the mentors to manage their projects on GitHub, if they
> wish,
> > instead of requesting them to do so.
> you should not even suggest it. We should suggest an open source solution,
> preferably one we run on our own infra.
>
> Alex
>

Re: Sign up to mentor for Outreachy Round 15

[Jaminy Prabaharan]

Hi all,

I have added a project for Outreachy-Round15.


https://wiki.debian.org/Outreachy/Round15/NCProjects/Coordinating%20Attendees%20and%20Speakers%20Representing%20Debian%20in%20Open%20Source%20Conferences#preview

If you're interested to work on the project or co mentor it, you can mail
me or in mail in this mailing list.

Thank you!

Best regards,
Jaminy.

On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 10:25 PM, Molly de Blanc  wrote:

> Thanks Mattia, Hans-Cristoph, Tong, and Daniel for your interest in
> mentoring in the upcoming round of Outreachy.
>
> There's a wiki page with a submission system. It might even work. No
> promises.
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/Outreachy/Round15/projects
>
> Even if you submitted in past rounds for the same project, please fill
> this out again. You can copy and paste your previous text if you feel so
> inclined.
>
> If you know of anyone else who has a great idea or you think would be a
> great mentor, please share the link with them or pass their name to
> outreach@debian.
>
> Thanks everyone!
>
> Cheers,
> mdb
>
>

Re: FOSDEM Sponsorship from Debian or Google?

[Jaminy Prabaharan]

Hi ,

Happy new year 2017!

The talk on RTC has been selected for FOSDEM and there might be a GSoC
lightning talk as well.

May I know whether we could get our visa letter here for speakers
representing Debian?

Thank you!

Best regards,
Jaminy.

On 18 Dec 2016 5:01 am, "Alok Anand"  wrote:

> Hi,
> I have the same query. I have proposed a talk based on the work done in
> GSoC 2016 and require sponsorship/travel funding. Since this is the only
> active thread on this topic, I would request admins to reach us out and
> help regarding this. I would also be more than happy to volunteer on any
> activity.
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Alok Anand
>