[Members] GSoC 2013 question

[Simon Tennant]

IMHO GSOC has been really good for the XSF.

As bear mentions, the success is proportiante to the mentors input and
organisation time. Kudos to Kev too: he has also done a great job
marshalling teams in the last two years that I've been involved.

I'd be happy to help more this year. It's a great program an attracts some
great minds to the XSF world.


On 12 February 2013 17:16, bear <bear42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Here is a draft of a post that I would be sending to the Members list and
> also on the blog.
>
> I'm doing it as a draft because I feel that the discussion of the draft
> will itself help bring out the same folks who need to be a part of the
> discussion - so I'm seeding the question :)
>
> anywho, here is the draft, if you care about the XSF's involvement in GSoC
> 2013 please do make comments and start the discussion.
>
> ----------vv draft vv---------
>
> With the exception of one year, the XSF has  participated in the Google
> Summer of Code for something like the past 8 years and now, with Google
> announcing the 2013 season we have a single  question to answer:
>
> Should the XSF participate again this year?
>
> The  last two years support for running the GSoC pretty much fell to a
> single person (outside of the work of the individual mentors) so if we
> participate we would need to have a much broader base of people to  spread
> the workload.  I say this because 2013 is *already* looking to be  a very
> busy year for the XSF.
>
> So, the above bear ramblings  aside, is there enough organizational
> interest for us to submit and Org  request again?  Given our history with
> the project, I feel comfortable  that we would get 3-5 slots - so the
> question is do we have 3-5 groups  with enough interest?
>
> ----------^^ draft ^^---------
>
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> Bear
>
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