On 2013-10-24 22:34, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 24/10/2013 Ulrich Stärk wrote: >> I think we have never participated in GCI because the tasks don't match well >> with what we do and >> because mentoring juvenile high-school students is something very different >> than mentoring adult >> college students and probably a lot more time-consuming too. > > OpenOffice is the odd project in many respects at the ASF, but it might be > that we are interested. > OpenOffice alone can easily find dozens of suitable tasks, we have a lot of > committers (including > teachers, including native speakers of many languages) who don't code but can > perfectly mentor > acceptable tasks, and our mailing lists see so many things that a teen > answering compulsively and > writing in all caps won't make news. > > I posted a note on the OpenOffice dev list: if we manage to put a reasonable > number of mentors > together in the allowed short time, I may ask that Apache applies. I realize > that other Apache > projects have difficulties in finding tasks (on the contrary, OpenOffice > cannot easily find GSOC > projects since development actions are either too simple -like the ones > needed here- or too > complex), so I'll ask that Apache applies only if the feedback leaves me > reasonably convinced that > OpenOffice can find and mentor enough tasks alone. > > Regards, > Andrea.
If you decide that you want to participate I will submit an org application for the ASF. But please tell me no later than monday morning UTC so that I have sufficient time for this. Also, I might need some help phrasing some texts that the application might require so somebody on IRC/Skype/$some_other_im to help me with this will be highly appreciated. Uli
