Fwd: [GSoC Mentors Announce] Now Accepting GSoC 2021 Mentoring Organization Applications until Feb 19

[Dima Pasechnik]

Dear all,

we are looking for projects and mentors for GSoC 2021.

Myself, I'll pass this year, though.
This means we need at least one more admin.

Dima

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Subject: [GSoC Mentors Announce] Now Accepting GSoC 2021 Mentoring
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Hi all,

Org admins can submit their org's application to be a mentoring
organization for GSoC 2021 at g.co/gsoc from today until Feb 19 at
1900UTC.

Please remember for the 2021 GSoC program all projects students will
be working on for the summer should be ~175 hr projects. Please adjust
your Project Ideas as needed. Having a thorough and well thought out
list of Project Ideas is the most important part of your application.
Making sure you having enough mentors excited to mentor student
projects and that are ready to commit to mentoring over the summer is
very important.

Please encourage other open source orgs to apply -- if you know of
other open source projects that may be interested in applying to GSoC
as a first time org please remind them to check out the available
resources below and have them put your org (or you) down as a
reference.

Resources:

Mentor Guide

Timeline

FAQs

Roles and Responsibilities

Marketing Materials (slide deck, flyers)

Videos

If you have any questions please email me at gsoc-s...@google.com

Best,

Stephanie Taylor

GSoC Program Lead

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[Travis Scrimshaw]

I am happy to mentor, but I am not sure I could take on being an admin this year (next year I could though).

Best,

Travis

[Dima Pasechnik]

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> I am happy to mentor, but I am not sure I could take on being an admin this year (next year I could though).

admin is much less work than mentoring, I think.

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[David Coudert]

I'll be happy to mentor a good student, but would prefer not to be admin.

I already have a huge load of administrative work daily and would appreciate not to have extra.

[Harald Schilly]

Hi, a word from my side: I would really like to stop being admin as well and hope someone else can take over. I'm the one writing the application each year and I could this time around, but in general I want to focus on other things after all those years.

Despite that, looks like there are only two mentors. Feels like this is below the threshold where it makes sense to pursue this? Maybe we should pass this year and re-evaluate for the next one?

-- Harald

[mmarco]

I have participated as mentor other years... but this year I just don't think I have the needed energy.

I think Harald's proposal to pass this year and reconsider the next one makes sense (sadly).

[David Coudert]

This year is difficult for all of us and we lack motivation for this edition of GSoC.

On the other end, it is more important than ever to push/motivate/help students.

Other Sagemath contributors than the usual could be involved in mentoring activity.

I think many contributors are not really aware of this program and what it means.

Furthermore, this year the GSoC period has been shortened (by half) and so it is no longer necessary to be around till end of August.

This could be an extra motivation to attract new mentors.

Concerning the admin part, I don't know how heavy it is, what it means exactly, etc.

Of course, if we are too few ready to help/mentor for GSoC this year we can pass.

[Travis Scrimshaw]

I think I could probably manage being part of the admin, but I definitely could not do it alone without someone who knows more about how it works.

Best,

Travis

[Matthias Koeppe]

Sounds like Travis is asking if a previous admin would be willing to be the mentor for new admins.

Perhaps if we have a mentoring program for new admins, we will be able to recruit more admins. 

[Dima Pasechnik]

being an admin is relatively little work.

Perhaps we can indeed skip this year, in particular as the GSoC format got changed so that the projects are to be considerably shorter,

 stipends  smaller too, high school leavers became eligible, etc.

(so more PR for Goog, less substance,

I think)

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2020/10/google-summer-of-code-2021-is-bringing.html?m=1

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[Travis Scrimshaw]

I am going to take up being the admin for GSoC this year. So I am getting the application prepared. I will post a separate thread calling for project ideas.

Best,

Travis