What a nice idea Yaron :) ๐๐๐๐
On Sun, Mar 2, 2025, 7:47โฏPM Yaron Koren <yaro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Deb - thanks for explaining what happened. We all make mistakes (except > for this Dennis guy, I suppose!), and it's at least good to know that > Google have not suddenly changed their minds about the Wikimedia Foundation. > > However, perhaps something can be salvaged from this. There have been > various organization-specific mentorship programs that have been directly > inspired by the Google Summer of Code; here are some of them: > > https://mentorship.kde.org/sok/ > https://www.x.org/wiki/XorgEVoC/ > https://www.summerofbitcoin.org/ > > What about having a "Wikimedia Summer of Code" or some such this summer? > It could more or less match what GSoC does, with the same timeframe(s), > same country-specific stipends, etc. Like these other org-specific > programs, it would piggyback on the GSoC concept, so that potential > students will already know what to expect. > > Wikimedia has a big advantage over most other organizations that might > wish to do similar things, in that it already has a funding mechanism that > could be repurposed for this: the Rapid Grants program, whose $5,000 limit > is larger than all but the largest possible GSoC stipends. So in a sense, > nothing (as far as I know) would need to change officially: it would just > be a matter of putting up a wiki page telling potential mentors that they > need to apply via a Rapid Grant, as opposed to the GSoC website. (Of > course, it would be good for anyone handling the Rapid Grant applications > to know to expect a spate of technology-related ones!) > > There have already been some great Wikimedia project ideas this year, and > (as with every year) there are students who are excited to specifically > work on Wikipedia- and Wikimedia-related projects. It would be a shame to > give up on these projects, and also potentially to lose momentum for > upcoming years, if the funding potential is there. > > And yes, I'm aware of Outreachy, which as far as I know is still > happening, but it doesn't allow most of the people who would potentially be > applying for GSoC, so I don't see it as a real substitute. Others may, > however. > > Any thoughts? > > -Yaron > > -- > WikiWorks ยท MediaWiki Consulting ยท http://wikiworks.com > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list -- wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wikitech-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/
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