Re: GSoC 2017: application open, deadline = February 9, 2017

From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 9, 2017, 10:49 UTC
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On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 11:28 AM, Siddharth Kannan <kannan.siddharth12@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 9 February 2017 at 15:45, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
>>
>> A non-quoted but yet important part of my initial email was:
>>
>> | So, as much as possible, I'd like to avoid being an org admin this
>> | year. It's not a lot of work (much, much less than being a mentor!),
>> | but if I manage to get some time to work for Git, I'd rather do that
>> | on coding and reviewing this year.
>>
>> and for now, no one stepped in to admin.
>
> I would like to point everyone to this reply from Jeff King on the
> original post: [1]
> (In case this was lost in the midst of other emails) It sounds like
> Jeff King is okay
> with taking up the "admin" role.
>
>     I do not mind doing the administrative stuff.  But the real work is in
>     polishing up the ideas list and microprojects page. So I think the first
>     step, if people are interested in GSoC, is not just to say "yes, let's
>     do it", but to actually flesh out these pages:

Yeah it was also my impression based on the above that Peff would be ok to take up the admin role.

Now if he doesn't want for some reason to take it, then I am ok with us not applying, but again it would have been better to be clearer about that before the eve of the deadline.