Merge responsibilities of Summer Coding SIG / Mentored Projects into Mindshare Committee
The Summer Coding SIG was founded over a decade ago. But its membership, decision-making, and how to join is not clear. There are no public meetings. The listed places for SIG discussion are mailing lists and IRC, where we encourage students to network with the community.
In my Fedora experience, Summer Coding facilitation and management is juggled by whoever has the passion, motivation, and obligation to work on it. The lack of a defined process indicates fragile support for this work to happen more transparently or openly in the community.
To improve Summer Coding facilitation, I believe we need clear leadership and ownership of these responsibilities in a documented, chartered way. I see the Mindshare Committee as best equipped for this responsibility in the context of the Fedora orgchart.
This ticket is an exploration of merging Summer Coding SIG responsibilities into Mindshare. In my mind, this means the Mindshare Committee (collectively) is responsible for managing and facilitating Fedora's participation in Mentored Project organizations like GSoC or Outreachy.
Merging these responsibilities into Mindshare reduces complexity and confusion. To briefly summarize how things work now:
This is really confusing! So, I think Mindshare is a better home for this important and valuable work.
@jflory7 Thank you so much for filing the ticket, I completely agree with the points above. I have been actively doing the GSoC OAs and GCI since sometime with Bex and now Vipul. It's a good idea,if we can start owning up the SIG. I am +1 to this.
@jflory7 I have had this thought and have also discussed this with Sumantro but was always short on coming to a conclusion on what should be done Thank you for the idea My vote doesn't count, but it's a +1
I'm +1 to this. I think both GSoC and Outreachy would benefit from continuing to work closer to avoid duplication of effort. I'd love to see all potential intern projects submitted by, say, DevConf in January and then have all reviewed to see what projects make sense to go for Outreachy vs GSoC.
+1 to this
facilitation and management is juggled by whoever has the passion, motivation, and obligation to work on it. The lack of a defined process indicates fragile support for this work to happen more transparently or openly in the community. To improve Summer Coding facilitation, I believe we need clear leadership and ownership of these responsibilities in a documented, chartered way.
facilitation and management is juggled by whoever has the passion, motivation, and obligation to work on it. The lack of a defined process indicates fragile support for this work to happen more transparently or openly in the community.
To improve Summer Coding facilitation, I believe we need clear leadership and ownership of these responsibilities in a documented, chartered way.
I'm +1 and this is the KEY Regards.,
+1!
Update this page to add Summer Coding: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/mindshare-committee/teams/
Update this page to add Outreachy: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/mentored-projects/gsoc/2020/
Create a new seat on the committee for a point of contact for summer coding
Document any tasks related to summer coding, such as the intro interviews/posts.
Metadata Update from @riecatnor: - Issue close_status updated to: Complete - Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
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