As promised, Here's my blog post on the Mentor Summit:
http://mifos.org/blog/2017-gsoc-mentor-summit/ Ed On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 5:52 PM, Isaac Kamga <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ed, > > Good to know you liked the GSoC Mentors Summit. > > Once more, thanks for sharing this update. > > We look forward to reading your blog post. > > At Your Service, > Isaac Kamga. > > On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 9:11 PM, Ed Cable <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Just wanted to briefly mention that the Mifos Initiative had five of our >> mentors in attendance at this past weekend's Google Summer of Code Mentor >> Summit in Mountain View. >> >> For myself and Avik it was our first time attending and for Ishan, >> Pranjal, and Gaurav they had attended before. >> >> I will share a blog post later on with more thoughts and reflections but >> it was very worthwhile event that I hope more of our mentors can attend in >> the future - it was nice to be together and share ideas with so many >> passionate open source people. >> >> The unconference format lent itself to many valuable sessions. I led one >> session titled "Sticking Around: Attracting and Retaining Long-Term >> Contributors". You can find notes on that here: https://goo.gl/yofrLr >> >> I also attended sessions on Kubernetes led by Google staff, Failing More >> Students, GCI Discussion, GSOC selection process, and GitHub workflow >> improvements. The GitHub session opened my eyes to some valuable bots and >> tools we could use to better automate our processes. >> >> I wanted to thank Avik especially for attending many sessions to expand >> his knowledge and for spending several hours in deep brainstorming sessions >> with me about our software and the community. >> >> There were also two sessions worth of lightning talks (2-3 min) spanning >> 3 hours covering 50 projects. These were especially impressive to see the >> scale, scope, diversity, and complexity of the GSOC projects students are >> working on. I gave a lightning talk on Dilpreet's Mobile Banking App >> project (slides at https://goo.gl/WSbE37) and Pranjal gave one on >> Gopala's web app enhancements (slides at https://goo.gl/PN6nyZ) >> >> -- >> *Ed Cable* >> President/CEO, Mifos Initiative >> [email protected] | Skype: edcable | Mobile: +1.484.477.8649 >> <(484)%20477-8649> >> >> *Collectively Creating a World of 3 Billion Maries | *http://mifos.org >> <http://facebook.com/mifos> <http://www.twitter.com/mifos> >> >> > -- *Ed Cable* President/CEO, Mifos Initiative [email protected] | Skype: edcable | Mobile: +1.484.477.8649 *Collectively Creating a World of 3 Billion Maries | *http://mifos.org <http://facebook.com/mifos> <http://www.twitter.com/mifos>
