Call for GSoC 2023 mentors

[Sergios - Anestis Kefalidis]

Hi all,


I'm also unable to be a mentor this year. I have way more things to do 
than I have time and I still haven't touched last year's contributions 
(which need quite a bit of work to be considered finished).

I guess that this means that Xfce will not take part in GSoC 2023, but 
that might be for the best. It's time to cleanup what we already have!


Cheers,

Sergios

On 10/1/23 20:10, andre at andreldm.com wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> Thanks for all organizing GSoC once more, lots of work but it does 
> help Xfce immensely.
>
> It's also completely understandable you prefer to be "just" an admin. 
> This year I also don't intend to be a mentor, not because it's 
> tiresome or stressful or anything bad, in fact I had a good mentoring 
> experience last year, it's just because I'm trying to better manage my 
> time (not too much on Xfce nor leave the project completely).
>
> I'm sorry for not stepping up this time, but I can definitely help 
> with reviews, permissions, etc :)
>
> Cheers,
> Andre Miranda
>
> Jan 10, 2023, 11:11 by acs82 at gmx.de:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     this year I plan to do a break from GSOC mentoring .. time to tidy up
>     leftovers of the last two GSoC years and get some private projects
>     done.
>
>     However I would be willing to be a Xfce org admin again, doing all the
>     administrative stuff.
>
>     I as well would be fine with being a backup mentor, if some other
>     mentor
>     should be sick or something.
>
>
>     My plan would be to register Xfce for GSoC 2023 on end of January
>     [1] ..
>     though of course that only makes sense if we have people which want to
>     mentor for Xfce.
>
>     For GSoC 2022 the project-time-frame and project-size was very
>     flexible.
>     I suppose mentoring took me an average of ~2hours a week from May till
>     November.
>
>     While some mentors do regular video calls with the contributors, I
>     preferred to just chat with them via IRC and on gitlab issues/MR's or
>     via email, which as well worked fine.
>
>
>     Generally I can say that GSoC mentoring is a nice way for getting
>     things
>     done, and to lure people into Xfce-development :)  Though it for sure
>     will eat some of your time.
>
>     If you are interested, you will need to define some possible projects
>     from which GSoC applicants can pick from. See [2] as an example.
>
>     Xfce mentors will receive $500 per participant as "mentor stipend".
>
>
>     So if you are interested in mentoring for Xfce, please let me know !
>
>
>     Best regards,
>
>     Alex(xcons)
>
>
>     [1]: Timeline for GSoC 2023:
>     https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline?hl=en
>
>     [2] Xfce GSoC 2022 project list:
>     https://wiki.xfce.org/projects/gsoc/start#project_ideas
>
>
>
>
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