On 13/08/15 15:05, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: > >> On 13 Aug 2015, at 10:30, Daniel Pocock <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> On 13/08/15 09:09, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: >>> Hello DebConfers, >>> >>> We are planing the sites for next debconfs and we would like to form a >>> real team for such website (registration, schedule, homepages). > (…) >> >> Is this something that an Outreachy or GSoC student could contribute to? >> >> Have you seen the work Harsh[1] has been doing? This is probably a >> useful example of the type of things GSoC students are able to >> contribute. Personally, I feel that by modularizing as much as possible >> it makes it easier for people to get into and work on one area that they >> are motivated to work in without bumping into anybody else. >> >> Another Outreachy round starts soon. The benefit of any work done in >> GSoC 2016 may not be ready for DebConf to use until 2017 though >> > > For GSoC I don’t know if it fit with our plans: On summers we need to have a > working system, and probably we will be busy on fixing that system, so I > don’t think we will have time for mentoring and a parallel system. >
Some things - like creating an enhanced view of the schedule or rendering it in other formats - may well be useful during the summer because that is when everybody will look at it and give feedback. Just make sure there is a parallel instance that is stable. Other things, like the registration form, should probably not be changing during that time before the event. > Outreachy: I don’t know the plan, maybe it can fit better. > > The tasks are not so related to Debian workflow, so new people will have no > problem to enter in Debian world. > > But I’ll check with the GSoC/Outrachy team about what could we do together. > Maybe some of the DebConf team could discuss this with people around the GSoC session on Tuesday Regards, Daniel _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
