[SoC] Regarding GSoC Mentor Summit 2017

[Daniel Kastl]

I support Barry's proposal to represent both, the "admin" and the "mentor".
There are mentors, that put a lot of effort into GSoC, as well as there are
admins that spend a lot of time for OSGeo to make GSoC a success.
And there are probably also mentors and admins that just just do what is
necessary ... and that's no criticism.
What I want to say is, that it needs both: admins and mentors, and I
wouldn't say, that this should be the first criteria for a selection.

I think it's most important, that the selection process is fair and
transparent.
Many of us are probably not interested to go anyway or had no time, as it
is in my case.

But there are a few things, that I would expect from the 2 (?) OSGeo
delegates, if they are selected and eventually even financially supported.

   - their commitment in the OSGeo GSoC activities should be at least
   average
   - not sure, what you actually do at this summit, but they should
   represent OSGeo
   - this shouldn't be the last year, they have been admin or mentor for
   OSGeo
   - I would like to read some blog post or report about the event

It would be good to have some guidelines, especially if there are many,
that would like to attend.
However, it's good to have an open discussion.

Best regards,
Daniel




On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 4:42 PM, Barry Rowlingson <
b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 8:00 AM, Margherita Di Leo <diregola at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > The policy of OSGeo regarding Mentor Summit has been so far the
> following:
> > admins are given priority to go,
>
> I'd like to see a policy of sending *one* admin and *one* mentor, so
> that both the admin and mentoring experience for OSGeo is represented.
> Only if no admins or no mentors want to go should both attendees come
> from the same group. An admin who is also a mentor can be considered
> as being from either group.
>
> Perhaps I should take this policy proposal to the open OSGeo
> discussion list for wider circulation?
>
> > This year the conversation among admins regarding this has hardly
> started,
>
> It has now!
>
> Barry
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