On 9 February 2016 at 01:09, Dirk Hohndel <[email protected]> wrote: > Which leads me to the question: > > "do we want to do GSoC 2016?" > > I'm not sure. I thought the last two years were overall good experiences. > > But they have not brought us long term contributors (Gehad was the closest > we got and his last commit was from September of last year). The others > have ALL disappeared. Most of them the moment the final evaluations were > in. >
money is the ruling factor without a doubt. the knowledge can be obtained from pretty much everywhere nowadays. while, i can't imagine many 20-25 years old students sticking near a random open source project just for the fun, fame and experience. > And if I chart the effort of the mentors and what they could have implemented > during the time it took them to handle the students... I'm even less convinced > that this is a net positive. > i can't say that i particularly enjoy mentoring in GSoC, as it may require a very particular ego for one to enjoy the experience. if you are considering the funding part as a factor, i'm up for it for the sake of helping out. > Finally - what would the projects be this year? Is there anything that people > have in mind that can be done by a student and that couldn't be done much > easier by one of the potential mentors? probably a stack of projects for the mobile UI. gathering a list of feature requests might open some ideas, even for the desktop app. > > OK, I guess what I wrote here reads a bit more negative than I feel. I'm open > to doing it again. But I want to get some feedback from others, ESPECIALLY > from the potential mentors (Lubomir, Robert, Anton, Miika, Tomaz, etc). > i'm also leaning towards the "net negative", but i will try to join if more people agree. lubomir -- _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list [email protected] http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
