Re: [QGIS-Developer] Post-mortem of application to Google Summer of Code

2024-05-13 Thread Greg Troxel via QGIS-Developer
Emma Hain writes: > Hi Greg > Thanks for replying - that is a very interesting read - and somewhat > disheartening. So my response is, is this something we get involved with or > not? > My thoughts on getting involved in this was additional funding to build up > and mentor up and coming QGIS deve

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Post-mortem of application to Google Summer of Code

2024-05-13 Thread Emma Hain via QGIS-Developer
Hi Greg Thanks for replying - that is a very interesting read - and somewhat disheartening. So my response is, is this something we get involved with or not? My thoughts on getting involved in this was additional funding to build up and mentor up and coming QGIS developers. Is there are way to tria

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Post-mortem of application to Google Summer of Code

2024-05-13 Thread Greg Troxel via QGIS-Developer
Emma Hain via QGIS-Developer writes: > Mentors to be put forward - I see this information > : > *Mentors are people from the community who volunteer to work with a GSoC > contributor. Mentors provide guidance such as pointers to useful > documentation,

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Post-mortem of application to Google Summer of Code

2024-05-12 Thread Emma Hain via QGIS-Developer
Hi All How can we, and do we prepare for this next year? I take it we need: Mentors to be put forward - I see this information : *Mentors are people from the community who volunteer to work with a GSoC contributor. Mentors provide guidance such as poin

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Post-mortem of application to Google Summer of Code

2024-05-06 Thread Julien Cabieces via QGIS-Developer
Hi Valentin, I'm really sad to hear that you were not selected. I was really happy to meet you in person in Grenoble, and thought at that time that you really deserved to be choosen. Your proposal was of high quality, and you prove to have a great maturity for your arge (and this post-mortem ma

[QGIS-Developer] Post-mortem of application to Google Summer of Code

2024-05-06 Thread Valentin BUIRA via QGIS-Developer
Hi devs, Last month, I applied for Google Summer of Code (GSoC), unfortunately I was not accepted into this year's program. I know it's disappointing, since we all would like to see an open source alternative to existing ETL, and I feel like the stars were aligned here. So here my little post-mor