Re: About the GSoC program

[Thiago Macieira <thiago@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 22 April 2008 16:22:21 Ian Monroe wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Mauricio Piacentini <piacentini@xxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> > Mauricio Piacentini wrote:
> >  > Do you have an URL for this kde-soc-mentors list? It is not listed on
> >  > lists.kde.org. Google does not help here as well.
> >
> >  Replying to myself: Matt Williams gave me the address, it was not listed
> >  because it is not a public list, and requires approval before someone
> >  joins. I have just applied, but are you sure this is the best place for
> >  a public discussion on what could be improved for next year's Summer of
> >  Code, if anything? I would prefer a more visible place, if possible. I
> >  can see that a more private list could be useful while discussing the
> >  projects, so people can be more honest about their evaluations. But I am
> >  not sure it is the best place to discuss suggestions for next year
> >  openly, in a way that includes the whole KDE community.
> >
> >  To Kevin and Cyrille: I thought mentors got a percentage of the bounty
> >  for students (U$ 500). Sorry for misunderstanding this.
>
> We have more then 80 mentors and Thiago does a good job of making sure
> they all get signed up to the mailing list. So it's not very secret at
> all.

That's right, but we've mostly used kde-soc-mentor to discuss how to evaluate 
the projects and how to deal with issues found. That's why the list is 
private.

On the other hand, discussing how KDE's participation in SoC can and should be 
more public. Students have a vested interest in that. At last year's aKademy, 
I held a BoF on the subject and it was very productive. And anyone was 
allowed to join.

The best forum for this discussion would then be the kde-soc@ mailing list, 
but I'd like to keep that a low-traffic list for administrative stuff. That 
is, informing the students and mentors of upcoming deadlines. All development 
questions are directed to specific mailing lists anyways.

So, in the end, I can't come up with any valid mailing list to have a frank 
and open discussion.

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