On Apr 10, 2013 7:27 PM, "Ulrich Stärk" <u...@spielviel.de> wrote: > > Folks, > > I perceive a low interest of our projects in GSoC. The list of projects that submitted project ideas > that I compiled for Sally contained 33 entries of which some are subprojects I believe. With 138 > PMCs plus 35 podlings, this is less than one fifth of our projects. > > We only had 34 ideas one week before our application was due. > > I run into committers that are not members of their projects PMCs who are eager to be mentors but > have no clue about what's going on because nobody from the PMC forwarded my emails to their dev lists. > > So the problem seems twofold: no interest and not reaching the right people. The latter could be > improved by simply sending to committers@ instead of pmcs@ but it's the first that worries me. > > I believe GSoC and every other opportunity to attract new contributors to our projects should be a > key priority of our PMCs. Apparently it's not, for whatever reasons. I could think of missing > cycles, indifference, and wrong priorities. > > So what could we do to increase awareness for the opportunities GSoC offers and that this program is > important to the foundation? Write more emails? Ask the board to mandate a section in board reports > detailing the project's GSoC endeavors? Any ideas?
one suggestion would be to make an apache page, that in short tell 1) what should a proposal contain 2) what is required with asf to be mentor (on a asf project) 3) a short part about asf and our cooperation with google 4) How to proceed. I know you and others have e-mailed all that information, and quite a lot more. A page (which are referenced in the e-mail) would make it easy for someone like me, to get the information I need fast, and if I feel it, I can always find more details. Thx for doing a great job, and yes there could have been more projects....but take it positively, we have some projects. Rgds jan I. > > Uli
