On Wednesday, July 9, 2014, Isarra Yos <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. >
True, but considering the fact that we had three candidates, this is the most appropriate choice we could make. > 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. > It is reasonable to expect that Wikimedia mentors eligible to a GSoC Reunion ticket including flight and accommodation will follow GSoC news and wikitech-l, and will be proactive communicating their interest and asking the questions they have. Communication can always be better but I don't think in this case was bad for mentors in the loop: # in May, there was an "Introducing the 10 year Google Summer of Code Reunion!" announcement sent by Google, followed by reminders and discussions in the GSoC mentors list # in June, there was in wikitech-l an "IMPORTANT: GSoC & OPW mid-term evaluations" email with a first line that said "(If you are a Google Summer of Code mentor, read till #The_end)". # in July, there was a "Mentors participating in GSoC Reunion..." reminder # and in general, watching https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Mentorship_programs/Possible_mentors is useful > 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. > Google's announcements point to https://sites.google.com/site/gsocmentorsummitstudentreunion/home . If mentors have questions, they can always ask here or at the mentors list. Anyway, it is indeed too late now for any changes. Ideas for improvement in 2015 are welcome. -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
