Hi all, I'm writing this from SFO airport waiting for the flight back to New Delhi after a very fulfilling GSoC Mentor Summit at Google Tech Corners in Sunnyvale. While it's standard for two people from each organisation to attend the summit, we had four people from KDE attending the summit this time: Valorie Zimmerman, Alexander Semke, Akarsh Simha, and myself.
I'm going to write my notes on what we got done at the summit, and the others who attended can probably add to this list after they've gotten home. So here goes: * We spoke to Google about hosting bits of KDE Infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform. Discussions about the technical and financial aspects of this project will begin internally and with Google as soon as possible. * I proposed a session on handling spam generated by sweatshops, the kind we get on Bugzilla, the wikis and the rest. Then I was unable to attend the session because we became victims of a criminal act - we're all okay - but when I got to the room during the last 15 minutes of the session, I was pleasantly surprised to find that others had taken the topic and run with it. It turned out to be very productive, and we have decided to set up a cross-project task force to share ideas, resources and tackle this problem together. * There was a lot of networking, some bugfixing, and generally fooling around Google's buildings. We weren't allowed to take pictures, so we can't share anything there. I personally shot for a promo video for GSoC that Google will be using in their promo material. * While the specifics are for Google to annouce, stay tuned for some major (and I mean MAJOR) changes to the programme next year! We participated in various session about feedback about the current edition and changes for future editions, and we had some cross-pollintation about setting mentoring standards for ourselves. The fallout from these sessions will be discussed in more targeted threads later. Thanks, Boudhayan Gupta Sysadmin/CWG