On 12/05/2016 07:37 AM, Ulrich Stärk wrote:
> What money are we putting into this?

I have no idea. That would be part of the data that I, as a member,
would really like to know.


> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Uli
> 
> On 03.12.16 23:16, Rich Bowen wrote:
>> So, this question was asked several weeks ago, and, so far, we have no
>> statistics. I wonder if, now that there appears to be some interest
>> around GSoC 2017 starting up, someone could look back at their notes and
>> answer some of these questions.
>>
>> While it's cool that folks are spending time on GSoC, for the sake of
>> GSoC, and of the students, it would also be awesome to know whether the
>> time and money that the ASF puts into this is actually doing something
>> towards the stated goal of Community Development.
>>
>> Or, at the very least, can we make a commitment to track this data going
>> forward?
>>
>> --Rich
>>
>> On 11/16/2016 05:18 AM, Nick Burch wrote:
>>> On Wed, 16 Nov 2016, Rich Bowen wrote:
>>>> It would be great to have some kind of statistics on how GSoC helps
>>>> projects longer term. Do students stick around? Does the code written
>>>> actually get incorporated into releases? Does it in fact contribute to
>>>> the mission of Community Development, or is it just a nice summer job
>>>> for these students?
>>>
>>> Do we have a list (maybe somewhere in the comdev private svn?) of
>>> everyone who has taken part in GSoC?
>>>
>>> If so, it'd be fairly easy to annotate that with apache IDs, then see
>>> who's now on PMCs or who's now a member. Producing sharable statistics
>>> from that automatically is then easy. (I say this as someone who helped
>>> update the similar Travel Assistance Committee / TAC ones on Monday!)
>>>
>>> Not sure if it's easy to find out the "last commit date" for people, to
>>> check for the "still around" part (eg for people who got committership
>>> during GSoc, maybe on a branch), but I know where infra are to ask...
>>>
>>> Nick
>>>
>>> PS FWIW, within Tika we've certainly had a few GSoC people stick around!
>>>
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