Hi Everyone: On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 11:19:34AM +0200, Christian Couder wrote: > Hi Chandra, Ghanshyam and Jialuo, > > On Wed, May 8, 2024 at 6:01 AM Kaartic Sivaraam > <kaartic.sivaraam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > As you may be aware, the results for GSoC 2024 have been officially > > announced[1]. We have 3 contributors contributing to Git this year[2]. > > 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. > I've had meetings with my mentors Patrick and Karthik this week. We've set up bi-weekly video meetings for syncing. I think it's good to create a Slack channel where we could help each other for some general problems thus improving the productivity and also establishing a good relationship. > 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)". > I think it's nice to have a virtual introductory meeting with all of the accepted GSoC contributors and mentors thus we could know each other more. > 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! Thanks
