[SoC] Regarding GSoC Mentor Summit 2017

[Jeff McKenna]

Great points Barry and Daniel.  I'll work with the other admins to setup 
a wiki page for the summit guidelines.

-jeff (Member of the admin team)

On 2017-07-13 5:56 AM, Daniel Kastl wrote:
> 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 <mailto:b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk>> wrote:
> 
>     On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 8:00 AM, Margherita Di Leo
>     <diregola at gmail.com <mailto: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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