Thanks Always ED
Always grateful for your updates.
Moses
On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Ed Cable <edca...@mifos.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just wanted to briefly mention that the Mifos Initiative had five of our
> mentors in attendance at this past weekend's Google Summer of Code Mentor
> Summit in Mountain View.
>
> For myself and Avik it was our first time attending and for Ishan,
> Pranjal, and Gaurav they had attended before.
>
> I will share a blog post later on with more thoughts and reflections but
> it was very worthwhile event that I hope more of our mentors can attend in
> the future - it was nice to be together and share ideas with so many
> passionate open source people.
>
> The unconference format lent itself to many valuable sessions. I led one
> session titled "Sticking Around: Attracting and Retaining Long-Term
> Contributors". You can find notes on that here: https://goo.gl/yofrLr
>
> I also attended sessions on Kubernetes led by Google staff, Failing More
> Students, GCI Discussion, GSOC selection process, and GitHub workflow
> improvements. The GitHub session opened my eyes to some valuable bots and
> tools we could use to better automate our processes.
>
> I wanted to thank Avik especially for attending many sessions to expand
> his knowledge and for spending several hours in deep brainstorming sessions
> with me about our software and the community.
>
> There were also two sessions worth of lightning talks (2-3 min) spanning 3
> hours covering 50 projects. These were especially impressive to see the
> scale, scope, diversity, and complexity of the GSOC projects students are
> working on. I gave a lightning talk on Dilpreet's Mobile Banking App
> project (slides at https://goo.gl/WSbE37) and Pranjal gave one on
> Gopala's web app enhancements (slides at https://goo.gl/PN6nyZ)
>
> --
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