Re: Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit

Hi Pradeeban,

Thank you very much for this. I would *really* like to read your
entries to the wiki but I can't work out how to login or to even
register for it.

My regular GSoC username/passwrd does work.

What do I do?

Cheers

Martin

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:02 PM, Kathiravelu Pradeeban
<kk.pradeeban@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ola Marc,
>
> On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 4:22 PM, J.M. Maurer <uwog@uwog.net> wrote:
>> Ola!
>>
>>> I am attending the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit this year from AbiWord.
>>>
>>> It will be a two day unconference hosted by Google (Oct 22nd and
>>> 23rd), where representatives from the organizations which participated
>>> in the Google Summer of Code gather to discuss about the event and the
>>> projects.
>>
>> Did it go well? Do you have fun so far? Any interesting stuff you
>> learned that AbiWord might benifit from?
>
> Yeah, the first day went really well. Got the chance to meet many
> folks from many organizations, and listen to their interesting and
> crazy experiences.
>
> 2011 was the first year for many organizations in Google Summer of
> Code, and they were impressed to hear the successful involvement of
> AbiWord in Google Summer of Code.
>
> I organized an unconference session on "Community matters!", and the
> notes can be found in [1]. [You might need to be a GSoC mentor to be
> able to access the session notes [2] or the wiki. I will blog about
> the session/s later for the wider audience].
>
> An interesting session on "Marketing and Spreading the word about the
> project/community", followed that.
>
> How localizers help to widen the user community was discussed. The
> mentor from PostGreSQL mentioned that they have allowed independent
> local user/dev communities to own the site in their languages (French,
> Japanese, ..)
>
> Social media engagement (twitter, facebook, dzone) to spread the word
> of the community and project releases were discussed.
>
> The other two sessions I attended were on Humanitarian FOSS and
> Managing the GSoC's payment (which had a few controversial suggestions
> followed by a healthy discussion, whether each student should be paid
> equally, or based on their geographical location, or by the outcomes -
> a final outcome of the discussion was to propose a reward for the
> outstanding students - may be a GSoC Student Summit).
>
>>
>>> Thank you Martin, Marc, Jean, and Xun. I will share more information
>>> on this, after the event (still we aren't given a schedule or hints
>>> about the events/talks scheduled, since it is an unconference).
>>
>> /me hates waiting :P
>>
>> Have fun, and thanks for representing AbiWord!
>
> Thank you Marc.
>
> Awaiting the second day eagerly.
>
> Regards,
> Pradeeban.
>
> [1] https://gsoc-wiki.osuosl.org/index.php/Community_matters
> [2] https://gsoc-wiki.osuosl.org/index.php/Session_Notes_2011
>>
>>  Marc
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Kathiravelu Pradeeban.
> Software Engineer.
> WSO2 Inc.
>
> Blog: [Llovizna] http://kkpradeeban.blogspot.com/
>
Received on Wed Oct 26 01:42:17 2011