Re: selecting Debian mentors for the mentor summit

2018-08-09 Thread Thomas Levine
I think it would be cool to prioritize people who are unlikely to get visas, both to make the chance of attendance closer to equal and to verify/ demonstrate/ that this is a problem. We can still use random selection if people like; mentors' chances of being selected would be related to chance

dmenu version of Click to Dial

2018-07-07 Thread Thomas Levine
I have written a dmenu version of the Click To Dial pop-up window, and I distribute it in case anyone finds it interesting. It implements the basic paradigm, but it does not substantially validate phone numbers, nor does not have the integrations that our Click to Dial students have written on t

Re: Evaluation reports

2018-06-09 Thread Thomas Levine
Where is it documented? Some students are not sure what to submit. I see "Provide a link to the work you did during GSoC." but only for the final evaluation.

Re: Evaluation reports

2018-06-09 Thread Thomas Levine
I was unclear. Do students have to submit anything to Debian or to the mentors? (It sounds like no.)

Evaluation reports

2018-06-09 Thread Thomas Levine
Some students have asked me if they need to submit something for the evaluation period. I haven't found anything about this in the directions from Google; did we say something about it somewhere? As far as I know, students only need to submit their normal updates (and this requirement is just from

Re: Kanboards

2018-05-10 Thread Thomas Levine
Dashamir Hoxha writes: > For plain text task management, I think that there is nothing > like org-mode of Emacs: https://orgmode.org/ > There may be some Vim alternatives as well. > > I have thought about suggesting it several times, but always > people get me wrong when I make some suggestions. o

Kanboards

2018-05-10 Thread Thomas Levine
All of the normal kanboards look annoying to manage for me, and I actually think we don't particularly benefit from the web interfaces because each student is working independently. So, I suggest that people (especially my students) do something like what I do for planning my projects. I keep proj

Re: evaluating Kanboard for mentoring

2018-05-05 Thread Thomas Levine
You did make it sound very appealing in comparison with those I tried that are available in Sandstorm. Please install it, and I will at least try it out. It might save me enough time to be worth the effort to administrate it, though I would probably check with other hackers to see if anyone else w

Salsa groups

2018-04-27 Thread Thomas Levine
Is it possible to make a group for the Click to Dial project on Salsa? I did not see how to do it. I have a guest account.

Mumble server for mentoring

2018-04-24 Thread Thomas Levine
I have set up a Mumble server for my mentees, and I am happy to make it available to other Debian GSoC projects. Please contact me if you are interested in using it. You can read about Mumble here. https://wiki.mumble.info/

Re: Receiving emails from the debian-outreach list

2018-04-04 Thread Thomas Levine
I managed to subscribe with a different email address. Thanks.

Receiving emails from the debian-outreach list

2018-04-04 Thread Thomas Levine
A diligent applicant has made me aware that I am not receiving emails sent to debian-outreach, and I have not managed to find a support avenue for the Debian mailing lists. Can someone check my registration on the mailing list to see what might be wrong? As the present email demonstrates, I can se

Re: GSoC applications download

2018-03-28 Thread Thomas Levine
Thomas Levine writes: > Pranav Jain writes: > > I would be happy to download individual proposals for your project and sen > d > > it to you :) > > I can download them myself if necessary, but it seems silly to do that > if an administrator can download them so easily.

Re: GSoC applications download

2018-03-27 Thread Thomas Levine
Pranav Jain writes: > I would be happy to download individual proposals for your project and send > it to you :) I can download them myself if necessary, but it seems silly to do that if an administrator can download them so easily. Thanks though.

GSoC applications download

2018-03-27 Thread Thomas Levine
The GSoC website requires internet access and proprietary JavaScript, and I am also not very skilled at using websites in general, so I want to download project proposals in order that I may review them. I have read on the GSoC mentors list, from Maybellin Burgos, that those with an Admin view may