Re: Call for GSoC 2023 mentors

Hey Sergios and Andre,

yea, I can totally understand ... there is as well that real-life thing
:) So looks like Xfce does not need to apply for GSoC this year.
Better like this than us, suffering from open source burnout !

So let's try to tidy up leftovers this year. If things go fine, we can
reconsider for GSoC 2024.

Cheers, Alex

Am 28.01.23 um 08:50 schrieb Sergios - Anestis Kefalidis:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm also unable to be a mentor this year. I have way more things to do
> than I have time and I still haven't touched last year's contributions
> (which need quite a bit of work to be considered finished).
>
> I guess that this means that Xfce will not take part in GSoC 2023, but
> that might be for the best. It's time to cleanup what we already have!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sergios
>
> On 10/1/23 20:10, [email protected] wrote:
>> Hi Alex,
>> Thanks for all organizing GSoC once more, lots of work but it does
>> help Xfce immensely.
>>
>> It's also completely understandable you prefer to be "just" an admin.
>> This year I also don't intend to be a mentor, not because it's
>> tiresome or stressful or anything bad, in fact I had a good mentoring
>> experience last year, it's just because I'm trying to better manage
>> my time (not too much on Xfce nor leave the project completely).
>>
>> I'm sorry for not stepping up this time, but I can definitely help
>> with reviews, permissions, etc :)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Andre Miranda
>>
>> Jan 10, 2023, 11:11 by [email protected]:
>>
>>     Hi all,
>>
>>     this year I plan to do a break from GSOC mentoring .. time to tidy up
>>     leftovers of the last two GSoC years and get some private
>>     projects done.
>>
>>     However I would be willing to be a Xfce org admin again, doing
>>     all the
>>     administrative stuff.
>>
>>     I as well would be fine with being a backup mentor, if some other
>>     mentor
>>     should be sick or something.
>>
>>
>>     My plan would be to register Xfce for GSoC 2023 on end of January
>>     [1] ..
>>     though of course that only makes sense if we have people which
>>     want to
>>     mentor for Xfce.
>>
>>     For GSoC 2022 the project-time-frame and project-size was very
>>     flexible.
>>     I suppose mentoring took me an average of ~2hours a week from May
>>     till
>>     November.
>>
>>     While some mentors do regular video calls with the contributors, I
>>     preferred to just chat with them via IRC and on gitlab issues/MR's or
>>     via email, which as well worked fine.
>>
>>
>>     Generally I can say that GSoC mentoring is a nice way for getting
>>     things
>>     done, and to lure people into Xfce-development :)  Though it for sure
>>     will eat some of your time.
>>
>>     If you are interested, you will need to define some possible projects
>>     from which GSoC applicants can pick from. See [2] as an example.
>>
>>     Xfce mentors will receive $500 per participant as "mentor stipend".
>>
>>
>>     So if you are interested in mentoring for Xfce, please let me know !
>>
>>
>>     Best regards,
>>
>>     Alex(xcons)
>>
>>
>>     [1]: Timeline for GSoC 2023:
>>     https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline?hl=en
>>
>>     [2] Xfce GSoC 2022 project list:
>>     https://wiki.xfce.org/projects/gsoc/start#project_ideas
>>
>>
>>
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