Hi, On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 12:30 AM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The big questions on whether we can make this happen are: > > 1. Do we have mentor interest? > > I'm willing to mentor, but I'd like to hear whether other people > are interested, as well. Either way I can take responsibility for > the administrative bits. I am willing to co-mentor, but I prefer not to take care of administrative bits. > We could probably use some effort brushing up our project-ideas > page. I've also considered whether it would make sense to do a > "mixed bag" project where somebody works on multiple smaller > projects, and we try to get them more involved in day-to-day > project activities (after all, very few of us started working on > Git with a dedicated 3-month project; people typically ease into it > by fixing small problems, reviewing code, etc). I agree that we should try "mixed bag" projects consisting in multiple smaller projects. It would be very interesting to see if it provides better results. > 2. Do we have the money (and want to spend it on this)? > > The Git project does have money to cover at least one intern. > > I'm looking into securing outside funding, so that we don't have to > use project funds. If for whatever reason that doesn't happen, is > this something we want to spend project money on? > > (My opinion is yes, but I'd like to hear what others in the > community think). My opinion is yes too. Is there something like the GSoC Mentor Summit? I think this is an interesting part of the GSoC and it could help motivate mentors if there was something like that. Thanks for taking care of this, Christian.
