Re: Call for GSoC 2023 mentors

Hey all,

just read the mails about GSoC 2023.
So, in general I want to jump into XFCE dev and try contributing.

I have read mostly the required coding language is C?

Hope to hear from u soon.

Cheers

Andi



On Sun, Jan 29, 2023, 11:05 PM Alex <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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