Re: increasing GSoC visibility within the ASF

2013-04-10 Thread Ross Gardler
A short mail to committers@ asking people who don't know about the process to ensure their PMC forwards the request should be enough. Things won't scale if ComDev start trying to offer more support than we already do. Let's have the PMCs answer queries from their communities. Ross Sent from a mo

Re: increasing GSoC visibility within the ASF

2013-04-10 Thread John Theisen
unsubscribe On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Grant Ingersoll wrote: > > > On Apr 10, 2013, at 10:26 AM, Ulrich Stärk wrote: > >> Folks, >> >> I perceive a low interest of our projects in GSoC. The list of projects that >> submitted project ideas >> that I compiled for Sally contained 33 entries

Re: increasing GSoC visibility within the ASF

2013-04-10 Thread Grant Ingersoll
On Apr 10, 2013, at 10:26 AM, Ulrich Stärk wrote: > Folks, > > I perceive a low interest of our projects in GSoC. The list of projects that > submitted project ideas > that I compiled for Sally contained 33 entries of which some are subprojects > I believe. With 138 > PMCs plus 35 podlings, t

Re: increasing GSoC visibility within the ASF

2013-04-10 Thread Mark Struberg
+ it's also pretty hard to spin of small enough tasks which can be done in a GSoC project. Most of our projects need some really in-depth knowledge prior to hacking a smallish task :/ In this light, 33 is not that bad a number. LieGrue, strub - Original Message - > From: janI > To:

Re: increasing GSoC visibility within the ASF

2013-04-10 Thread Ulrich Stärk
On 10.04.2013 19:35, janI wrote: > On Apr 10, 2013 7:27 PM, "Ulrich Stärk" wrote: >> >> Folks, >> >> I perceive a low interest of our projects in GSoC. The list of projects > that submitted project ideas >> that I compiled for Sally contained 33 entries of which some are > subprojects I believe.

Re: increasing GSoC visibility within the ASF

2013-04-10 Thread janI
On Apr 10, 2013 7:27 PM, "Ulrich Stärk" wrote: > > Folks, > > I perceive a low interest of our projects in GSoC. The list of projects that submitted project ideas > that I compiled for Sally contained 33 entries of which some are subprojects I believe. With 138 > PMCs plus 35 podlings, this is les

increasing GSoC visibility within the ASF

2013-04-10 Thread Ulrich Stärk
Folks, I perceive a low interest of our projects in GSoC. The list of projects that submitted project ideas that I compiled for Sally contained 33 entries of which some are subprojects I believe. With 138 PMCs plus 35 podlings, this is less than one fifth of our projects. We only had 34 ideas o

Re: ASF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013

2013-04-10 Thread Sally Khudairi
Thanks Dave --you are correct on both fronts. This is also why both the TLP list and Incubator projects/URLs are mentioned. Cheers, Sally [From the mobile; kindly excuse spelling/spacing/auto-correct anomalies] - Reply message - From: "Dave Fisher" To: Cc: "Ulrich Stärk" , "Sally Khu