Call for GSoC 2023 mentors

[Alex]

Hi Andi,

great to hear so. After you read this:
https://andreldm.com/2018/12/03/xfce-contributor-guide.html,

you might want to start with some newcomer issues:
https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues/?sort=updated_desc&state=opened&label_name%5B%5D=Newcomers&first_page_size=20

Or pick whatever annoys you in the Xfce software you use. Best start
with fixing bugs /dont go for new features directly.

If there are questions, best ask on the IRC channel #xfce-dev

Good luck and happy hacking !

Alex

Am 29.01.23 um 23:24 schrieb Andi Artz:
> Hey all,
>
> just read the mails about GSoC 2023.
> So, in general I want to jump into XFCE dev and try contributing.
>
> I have read mostly the required coding language is C?
>
> Hope to hear from u soon.
>
> Cheers
>
> Andi
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2023, 11:05 PM Alex <acs82 at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>     Hey Sergios and Andre,
>
>     yea, I can totally understand ... there is as well that real-life
>     thing :) So looks like Xfce does not need to apply for GSoC this year.
>     Better like this than us, suffering from open source burnout !
>
>     So let's try to tidy up leftovers this year. If things go fine, we
>     can reconsider for GSoC 2024.
>
>     Cheers, Alex
>
>     Am 28.01.23 um 08:50 schrieb 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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