[SoC] Community Bonding period - it’s student time to be active!

[Helmut Kudrnovsky]

>Betreff: Re: [SoC] Community Bonding period - it’s student time to be active!
>
>Today we had our first Mentor-Student meeting via http://appear.in/
>teleconferencing. I called it so we could have a quick meet and greet
>between the three of us (me, Kevin, and Julia). It was mostly
>introductions and chat, and just a few admin things to sort out. Worth
>doing something like that if you don't know your student or your
>co-mentors very well at the moment!
>

thanks for your feedback and nice to see that activities are starting now!

Helmut (on behalf of the OSGeo GSoC Admins)


> Dear students,
>
> In [1] it’s already mentioned:
>
>
> “as part of the your acceptance into GSoC, you are expected to actively participate in the Community Bonding period (May 4 - May 29). the *Community Bonding period* is intended to help get you ready to start contributing to your organization at full speed starting May 30th.”
>
>
> There are now 20 days left for the community bonding period and we haven’t seen much student activity so far.
>
>
> For a good starting point, we request following now:
>
>
> * write an introducing email here to our SOC mailing list and to your community dev mailing list
> * add links to your wiki page and public repository (where the community can follow your GSoC progress) in the accepted students wiki page [2]
>
>
> Be active and have fun with OSGeo’s GSoC ! [3]
>
> As community and communication work will be also part of your evaluation. :-)
>
> kind regards,
> your OSGeo GSoC Admins
>
> [1] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/soc/2017-May/003586.html[https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/soc/2017-May/003586.html]
> [2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2017_Accepted[https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2017_Accepted]
> [3] https://flossmanuals.net/GSoCStudentGuide/[https://flossmanuals.net/GSoCStudentGuide/]
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