Re: [GSoC] Welcoming our 2024 contributors and thanking our applicants

Hi Chandra, Ghanshyam and Jialuo,

On Wed, May 8, 2024 at 6:01 AM Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com> wrote:

Please let us know if you would like a call or some other kind of meeting with only your mentors or with the wider Git community. It could be on a regular schedule (like every few weeks) or not. It could be a special Slack channel with us and perhaps others who would ask us to be invited in it. We could also use this thread or other emails threads either with or without the mailing list in Cc to discuss things if you prefer.

We are suggesting this because the GSoC docs (https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/help/oa-tips) have the following:

"Have a virtual introductory meeting with all of the accepted GSoC contributors and mentors in May to help welcome everyone and help them feel more like part of the community. This is something GSoC contributors appreciate and ask for every year in their feedback, more orgs should try this."

and in an email to mentors and org admins we were also told to "Set up an introduction/welcome meeting with all of your GSoC contributors and mentors (and other community members when possible)".

Also please be aware that if we setup something, you might help each other on that channel, but you should not really work together on the same things as https://google.github.io/gsocguides/mentor/selecting-a-student for example says:

"Don’t select multiple people for the same project idea: If two GSoC contributors are working on the exact same project then they are competing with each other. Likewise, don’t make one person’s project dependent on another person’s project, that essentially makes it a team project which is not allowed or in the best interest of the GSoC contributors."

Also feel free to reply to this privately to your mentors if you prefer.

Best!