Matthieu Moy <matthieu....@grenoble-inp.fr> writes: > I consider this GSoC as a great success and a pleasant experience. > Congratulation to Paul and Karthik, and a warm "thank you" to everybody > who contributed: administrators, mentors, reviewers, and obviously > Junio! (not to mention Google, who made all this possible) > > Thanks all!
I've been generally negative about GSoC from past years' experience, but this year's GSoC made me rethink. It can work well ;-). I do not know what made it different this year from years past. We may want to ask ourselves what made it a successful year, so that we can repeat the success factors the next year: * The individual qualities of the students we got this year must have been a major factor. This we can indirectly influence by having a very engaging microproject period, I think, and we did so this year. * I cannot say anything about mentor-student interactions, which are largely private. Mentors may want to share tips to get students more engaged, or perhaps the level of engagement was primarily affected by who the students were. I dunno. * The topics chosen this year were well-sized, not overly nebulous. * The reviewers were helpful and probably more active than past years. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
