Google Summer of Code 2017 - Call for Admin

[Raniere Silva]

Hi all,

I hope you had a warm Christmas early this week and I wish you a Happy New Year.

In 2015 and 2016 I helped NumFOCUS to apply for Google Summer of Code (GSoC)

as a mentoring organisation. In 2017, I want to help in other ways

but since NumFOCUS participation on Google Summer of Code is valuable

I want to hand over the administrator seat.

In the previous two editions I volunteer 2-4 hours on the important

weeks of GSoC timeline (i.e. mentoring organization application

deadline, student application deadline, phase 1 evaluations, phase 2

evaluations, and final mentor evaluation).

We have some documentation in place, https://github.com/numfocus/gsoc,

that I started update for 2017 programme, see https://github.com/numfocus/gsoc/pull/150.

If you are interested to help NumFOCUS with GSoC 2017,

please let me know.

Thanks for your time,

Raniere

[holismo.t...@gmail.com]

Hi Raniere,

I would like help,

Let me how,

Regards,

Juan

[ran...@rgaiacs.com]

Hello Juan,

> I would like help,
>
> Let me how,

Can you invite me for an 20 minutes chat?
I'm on UTC+0.

Cheers,
Raniere

[Andy Ray Terrel]

Hi Raniere,

Thanks for your service on this. Do we have any admins yet? We really need to start collecting proposals.

-- Andy

Raniere

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[Raniere Silva]

Hi Andy,

> Do we have any admins yet?

Not yet.

Raniere

[Andy Ray Terrel]

Can you send me a list of all the mentors last year? I'll send a personal message to them.

[Max Linke]

Hi

I could also help out. I did the adminstration related stuff for MDAnalysis last year (we participated as under the python umbrella).
I've also mentored a couple of times for different projects and was a GSoC student once. So I'm familiar with the program.
MDAnalysis plans to participate again this year and I'll have time during the critical weeks (application / evaluation weeks)

best Max

[Andy Ray Terrel]

Hi Max,

That would be awesome. Raniere, has prepared some docs that are linked in the thread. Let me know if you want to get together and put down a plan to get everything ready.

-- Andy

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[Max Linke]

I had a short look over the docs. They look good.

The sketch of a detailed plan in the proposal template is nice since students usually don't plan ahead enough.
I would like to add some general advice for students though. At MDAnalysis we have some information
that explains the programming experience we expect as well a communication quidelines and two simple
rules when a student will fail the evaluation, 1. have regular contact with mentor 2. have some code
commited to master/develop by the end of the summer. See our Wiki

https://github.com/MDAnalysis/mdanalysis/wiki/Google-Summer-Of-Code#am-i-experienced-enough

I actually liked to use them since they make the decision of pass/fail easier and more transparent for
everyone involved.

About general plans. I usually have time in the evenings after 8 (UTC +1). It would be nice to now who
else would be an admin since we need a minimum of 2 and how you handle communication and
distribution of the slots to the organizations you are an umbrella for. The python org we had last year
had some clear rules and it's own timeline for management.

BTW do you also act as an umbrella for projects that aren't affiliated with numFOCUS?

best Max

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[Raniere Silva]

Hi Andy,

> Can you send me a list of all the mentors last year?
> I'll send a personal message to them.

Sorry for the delay.
I end up without checking my email during the weekend.

I believe that you got the email of the mentors.

Cheers,
Raniere

[Raniere Silva]

Hi Max,

> I had a short look over the docs. They look good.

Thanks. I liked you suggestions and think they should be included.

> About general plans. I usually have time in the evenings after 8 (UTC +1).

Are you available today? Maybe 8 (UTC +1) or 9 (UTC +1)?

> BTW do you also act as an umbrella for projects that aren't affiliated with numFOCUS?

If they are related with science, yes.

Raniere

[Max Linke]

On 01/09/2017 02:50 PM, Raniere Silva wrote:
> Hi Max,
>
>> I had a short look over the docs. They look good.

> Thanks. I liked you suggestions and think they should be included.

I'll prepare something on the weekend.

>> About general plans. I usually have time in the evenings after 8 (UTC +1).
>
> Are you available today? Maybe 8 (UTC +1) or 9 (UTC +1)?

Yes today at 9 would work. How do you usually meet up?

>> BTW do you also act as an umbrella for projects that aren't affiliated with numFOCUS?
>
> If they are related with science, yes.

That's great.

best Max

[Raniere Silva]

Hi Max,

>>> About general plans. I usually have time in the evenings after 8 (UTC +1).
>>
>> Are you available today? Maybe 8 (UTC +1) or 9 (UTC +1)?
>
> Yes today at 9 would work. How do you usually meet up?

I send you an invitation.

Cheers,
Raniere

[Max Linke]

Btw my github handle is kain88-de

https://github.com/kain88-de

I think I forgot to mention that earlier.