Re: Git GSoC 2015
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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
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- Feb 18, 2015, 09:28 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> The beginnings of the Google Summer of Code deadlines are upon us again. > Organization applications are due February 20th (next Friday). > > - Do we want to do it?
I would love to participate, but I won't be able to spend as much time as I did last year.
We always have mixed feelings on the actual outcome of GSoC, but I think it's a really good thing on overall for the community (Git's, and more generally "FLOSS") to encourrage young developers to participate.
> Personally, I really liked the "micro-project" system from last year. > It made it easy to drop spammy candidates (because they didn't bother > to do a micro-project at all), and it gave us some interaction with > the candidates before we had to make a decision.
I second that. As a mentor, the work I should have done during the first few days was already done indeed. It also helped dropping non-spammy candidates: selecting on the quality of interaction during microproject is better than judging only on resume+proposal.
-- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/