Re: GSoC projects: lessons learned

Perhaps you could have a look at the ideas list and suggest any changes?

Matt
On 14 Feb 2014 18:49, "Martin Aspeli" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I agree wholeheartedly.
>
> That rather suggests something about how we should pick the projects
> though. For example, things that have little community impact (like
> building a native app) may be a bad idea. Things that solve pain points
> (like improving Plone.org or our community infrastructure) may lead to a
> lot of positive feedback and kudos and hence greater chance of retention
> after GSoC ends.
>
> Ability to communicate effectively probably also counts for a lot.
> --
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>
>
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 6:45 PM, Matthew Wilkes <matthew.wilkes-z4DKO/[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>
>> > I feel we have more failures than successes, but I may be pessimistic.
>> What else have we had?
>>
>> Off the top of my head.. hannosch, iElectric, zupo, supton, tisto,
>> chaoflow, pigeonflight.. These people aren't all from gsoc, but have
>> benefited from them.
>>
>> There are two reasons to do GSoC, code and people. I think we benefit
>> from people much more than code.
>>
>> So, take chaoflow, for example. His work on PAU didn't make it in to
>> core, but it integrated him into the community and he's organised very
>> successful sprints.
>>
>> For the record, I don't think we often benefit from the direct code
>> contributions, but by my estimates about 1/6 of contributions in the last
>> year were from former GSoC students.
>>
>> But, for the record, both of this year's students did well, in 2011 Domen
>> did good work on TinyMCE. Timo worked on p.a.commenting, work was done on
>> improving PFG, etc.
>>
>> There are useful things that have come out of GSoC but that's nothing
>> compared to the people its helped us attract and retain.
>>
>> Matt
>>
>
>

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