I totaly agree with this, I didn't even notice original mail. Give us moar mails pls next time :) On Jul 9, 2014 5:42 PM, "Isarra Yos" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 09/07/14 10:38, Quim Gil wrote: > >> Siebrand and Kartik have been selected to participate in the GSoC Reunion >> o >> behalf of Wikimedia. >> >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Mentorship_programs/ >> Possible_mentors#Delegates_for_Google_Summer_of_Code_Reunion >> >> Reasoning pasted here for your convenience: >> >> Hi, after looking at >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Mentorship_programs/Possible_mentors >> the list of possible mentors attending the GSoC Reunion, we have decided: >> >> * Mentor 1 will be siebrand <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Siebrand >> >. >> He has been helping in outreach programs for a long time and in different >> ways. He was also the only one submitting his request on time. >> * Mentor 2 will be KartikMistry >> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:KartikMistry>, since he is mentor of >> two different orgs this year, and (afaik) he has been a mentor in previous >> editions. >> >> Also, Google will pay their flights from far far away. Legoktm >> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Legoktm>, I hope you understand and >> share the reasoning. Your request for this year has been recorded and it >> will help you being select next year, if you apply as well. >> > > Interesting that these are two translation folks, and nothing from the > wider development community. I'm sure they're lovely people, but I must say > this doesn't represent our diversity very well. > > I know it's too late now, but considering most of us probably never even > saw or considered the initial request as it was tucked away into another > email about something else, in the future it might help to send out a > separate email for these things, and if it comes to it, include a new > deadline in the reminder (otherwise the decision comes as a complete > surprise), too. > > Personally I never even considered it because as a new mentor it didn't > seem very appropriate for me to want to go ('delegate' is a very strong > word), but more on what it would have actually entailed in the email itself > would probably have helped others, too. > > -I > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
