Hi all, I plan to email the GIMP's Summer of Code students a small number of questions relating to their experiences of the Summer of Code with the GIMP. It's important for us as a project to evaluate how we're doing with new contributors, and accept criticism which helps us improve. The Summer of Code is an ideal opportunity to evaluate how our community is doing at welcoming new contributors. Such feedback will also be important for future Summer of Code initiatives (or similar projects) to establish from the get-go what we can do to make contributing a pleasant experience. I have a list of 10 questions, which I think is a nice number, split roughly into 3 groups: evaluation of the mentor, the community and the project overall. Any comments people have are welcome - I plan to send these out after the weekend, but hopefully before students find out if they were successful or not. == Mentor == * Overall, was your mentor helpful in your SoC project? (Very helpful: Moderately helpful - Answered my questions, but I expected more: Was not very responsive: No help at all) * Would you ask your mentor for help again if you continue to work on the GIMP? (Definitely: Probably not) * Did your mentor meet your expectations? (Exceeded expectations: Met expectations: Did not meet expectations) == Community == * How has your experience with the GIMP developer community been? (Excellent: Good: Poor: No interraction) * Have you found it easy to get involved in the project and find your way around the various resources that exist? (Yes: No) * Which of the following ressources have you used during your SoC project (Personal email to my mentor: public mailing lists: Wiki: CVS: Bugzilla: IRC) * How would you evaluate each of these ressources in terms of its usefulness to your project? (Excellent: Good: Poor: Horrible) == Project == * Would you recommend to a friend that they work on the GIMP if they wanted to get involved in free software? (Definitely: Probably not) * Would you recommend to a friend that they contact your mentor to get involved in the GIMP? (Definitely: Probably not) * Overall, how has your experience of SoC been? -- David Neary bolsh@xxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
