Hello, I am interested in attending the summit.
Regards, Milena Lavanchy 2018-08-08 15:49 GMT+02:00 Lucas Kanashiro <kanash...@debian.org>: > > > On 08/08/2018 06:59 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > > > On 08/08/18 10:50, Pranav Jain wrote: > >> I agree to the point that we need to consider the past contributions > >> to Debian. These contributions might not directly be technical but > >> other sort too (volunteering for events, hosting mini Deb conf etc). > >> > >> I agree that quantifying these things is difficult. But, we need to > >> have some parameters like bursary team do for DebConf. > >> > > > > If both candidates have to be people with strong Debian experience then > > we end up with a situation where new people never get any momentum, so > > maybe we could aim to have one person who is an established contributor > > and one person who is from the wider community or a first time mentor. > > Is that a position that other people tend to agree with, or are people > > asking for both mentors to be strong contributors to Debian? > > I understand that you want to give an opportunity to everybody but IMHO > we are talking about two different types of conferences. In one hand we > have conferences that create an environment to attract people, make them > understand what is the project and try to absorb them, those are > debconfs and minidebconfs for instance. In the other hand we have these > "external" events where there is no sentiment of Debian community but we > need to be there to share our knowledge and bring new ideas to the > project, this mentor summit fits well here. My point is that summits > like this is not the best place to try to gather new contributors. > > For example, in the Debconf 18 I met a great GSoC mentor that had never > interacted with Debian community before (just in the context of GSoC) > and I felt that after this experience he will get more involved with > different areas of the project (he wanted to start packaging some > softwares and he is already involved in the organization of a BID for > the next debconfs) > > Those are just my thoughts about this subject :) > > Cheers, > Lucas Kanashiro > >
