Re: Git GSoC 2015

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

The beginnings of the Google Summer of Code deadlines are upon us again.
Organization applications are due February 20th (next Friday).

 - Do we want to do it?

I would love to participate, but I won't be able to spend as much time
as I did last year.

We always have mixed feelings on the actual outcome of GSoC, but I think
it's a really good thing on overall for the community (Git's, and more
generally "FLOSS") to encourrage young developers to participate.

   Personally, I really liked the "micro-project" system from last year.
   It made it easy to drop spammy candidates (because they didn't bother
   to do a micro-project at all), and it gave us some interaction with
   the candidates before we had to make a decision.

I second that. As a mentor, the work I should have done during the first
few days was already done indeed. It also helped dropping non-spammy
candidates: selecting on the quality of interaction during microproject
is better than judging only on resume+proposal.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/