Now I see that I neglected the link to the Ideas page. :( Here it is: https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2019/Ideas
On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 11:24 PM Valorie Zimmerman < valorie.zimmer...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, I've started our application. > > The deadline for applications: February 6, 2019 at 12:00 (PST). > > By the deadline, we need to have an absolutely *splendid* Ideas page (1). > Before the deadline, I'll remove all the placeholders such as teams with no > Ideas listed, or ideas with no mentors listed. Teams which have > participated in the past but are empty still: KDE Partition > Manager, Kopete, Choqok, Peruse, KGpg, KWin, Plasma, WikiToLearn, KDevelop > and Xdg-desktop-portal-kde. > > So far, I'm the only admin listed. Anyone game to help administer this > year? It works well when we have a team, so that any of us can have an > off-week (or week off) sometimes. There are two aspects to being an org > admin: working with mentors, and working with students. "Paperwork" is a > very small part of the job. > > The mentor work is all about helping mentors and their teams work well > with their student. Some need coaching on communication, poking to do their > evaluations, etc. > > The student work in the beginning is coaching students in getting > involved, creating their devel environment, helping them craft their > proposals and get linked into the teams, and so forth. Later, it will be > helping them through the tough spots, especially when their mentors aren't > being helpful, or even helping withdraw gracefully. > > We need at least one more admin, and can have up to five. Please write to > kde-soc-managem...@kde.org (not me personally please!) about your > interest. > > All the best, > > Valorie > > -- > http://about.me/valoriez > > > -- http://about.me/valoriez
