Thank you for this summary. It is very useful.
Would you mind commenting more on lessons learned about the selection of
candidates? We need the right now for
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women
On 11/18/2012 05:17 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
Quim Gil is the
TL;DR: we're improving at student retention but need to get better at
producing something useful at the end of a mentorship period; some
suggestions follow.
On 08/28/2012 04:44 AM, Finne Boonen wrote:
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote:
I think you touch the most
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 3:07 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Furthermore, considering GSoC solely in terms of benefit to
Mediawiki/Wikipedia is short-sighted. Take a look at the organizations
participating:
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/projects/list/google/gsoc2012 . What
I think you touch the most important point here. I'm one of the main
people who manage GSoC for KDE. KDE is the biggest org taking part in
GSoC this year in terms of number of students mentored. In addition we
are running our own program (Season of KDE) next to it. So in total
I'd say we've
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote:
I think you touch the most important point here. I'm one of the main
people who manage GSoC for KDE. KDE is the biggest org taking part in
GSoC this year in terms of number of students mentored. In addition we
are running our
Hi,
It seems like some people are saying that getting workable code out of the
Google Summer of Code is a relatively minor aspect of the program - maybe
the third or fourth most important outcome of it, behind things like
finding new developers, getting better at mentoring, teaching software
(Splitting this off from John's critique of ConventionExtension.)
Hi.
MediaWiki has participated in several (Google) Summer of Code iterations now
(https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code) and I'm wondering how this
partnership program is evaluated.
Whenever this program wraps up at the
MZMcBride wrote:
MediaWiki has participated in several (Google) Summer of Code iterations now
(https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code) and I'm wondering how this
partnership program is evaluated.
After I posted this, Sumana pointed out that MaxSem has done a great
evaluation here:
Most software projects fail (for some definition of fail). Even for
highly skilled and highly experienced companies and shops, most software
projects fail. I'm not going to look up the Gartner and Forrester and
Chaos reports this late on a Monday night, but google away.
GSoC is an investment
Chris McMahon wrote:
Most software projects fail (for some definition of fail). Even for
highly skilled and highly experienced companies and shops, most software
projects fail. I'm not going to look up the Gartner and Forrester and
Chaos reports this late on a Monday night, but google away.
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