Hi Tony, Well, I still think there might be easier ways of getting students to stick with Wikimedia/MediaWiki over the long term - one obvious idea is to pay students who had useful projects to maintain or complete those projects, post-GSoC - but nevertheless, if you're willing to put in the work to create a WMF outreach/mentorship program, I support you; I'm sure any such effort is better than nothing.
-Yaron On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Tony Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Yaron, > > On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 5:34 PM, Yaron Koren <[email protected]> wrote: > >> But I hope that there's a better solution for it other than essentially >> requiring potential students to become detectives, trying to find >> interesting coding challenges that no one has proposed for GSoC etc. Maybe >> the solution is for you and others to do this work yourself - talking to >> MW/WMF developers to find more tasks and drum up enthusiasm among potential >> mentors - essentially what you did before, but now as an administrator and >> not a potential student. > > > Thank you for the trust Yaron, but here we are talking not only about new > tasks being up in Phabricator for students to charge upon, but to increase > the quality of students itself before they start working on the project. > Performance report of a student in that kind of a program even can make it > easy for a mentor to better evaluate his/her proposal (considering past > contributions matter). More than that, this would be one good option for > post-GSoC students to still stick with the community too - as they can > either participate, or even be mentors again. > > Yeah - we are trying to solve actually two problems here - (a) better > community code review and codebase aware students before GSoC (b) making > students stick back with Wikimedia after they complete their project. > > Thanks, > Tony Thomas <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:01tonythomas> > Home <http://www.thomastony.me> | Blog <https://tttwrites.wordpress.com/> > | ThinkFOSS <http://www.thinkfoss.com> > > -- WikiWorks · MediaWiki Consulting · http://wikiworks.com _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
