Re: Fwd:Invitation: Apply to be a Mentoring Organization for GCI

2011-10-19 Thread Kathey Marsden
On 10/19/2011 12:43 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: All this is good, but meaningless unless someone has the time to follow through. I'm going to leave it one more day. If there is no ASF level follow through I will notify PMCs that they should apply directly. I think that would be best if there is an

Re: Fwd:Invitation: Apply to be a Mentoring Organization for GCI

2011-10-18 Thread Kathey Marsden
On 10/17/2011 1:09 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: Anyone with the cycles to apply for the Google Coda In on behalf of the ASF? One part of the application is a link to our tasks page. One thing that has confused me about this program is how tasks should be sized. How many hours would we expect a

Re: Updating mentor vetting procedures

2011-10-05 Thread Kathey Marsden
On 10/5/2011 4:23 AM, Ulrich Stärk wrote: While it seems like a good idea to involve the PMCs some more I think that we should, in addition, require accounts created for students to be marked as such. I think this is a good idea. A simple suffix like _tmp would be a clear message to all,

Re: Updating mentor vetting procedures

2011-10-05 Thread Kathey Marsden
On 10/5/2011 8:11 AM, Ulrich Stärk wrote: I'd rather do this using a special group that students are members of. That way they can keep their accounts if they are voted in as committers later. That makes sense. It would be nice to have something a little more in your face, but I suppose the

Re: GSoC Temporary commit access accounts

2011-07-21 Thread Kathey Marsden
On 7/21/2011 2:24 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: Hi, On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Luciano Resendeluckbr1...@gmail.com wrote: It looks like various Apache projects are voting GSoC students as partial committers. As Apache does not have a formal process for handling this type of account

Fwd: [TOS] ESA Summer of Code In Space (SOCIS)

2011-06-30 Thread Kathey Marsden
I just thought I would forward this email I saw. I am sure there are lots of Apache projects that could have value in space which seems to be the criteria from the FAQ. The timeline is interesting for students, August - October. Does that align with some European school terms? Regardless,

Re: low gsoc popularity this year?

2011-04-15 Thread Kathey Marsden
On 4/6/2011 7:01 AM, Kathey Marsden wrote: On 4/6/2011 1:40 AM, Sagara Gunathunga wrote: May be gathering such small factors will help to reach high popularity in next time. Thanks Ulrich to bring this topic for a discussion. One thing that occurred to me on this topic as I was looking

linking ranking process from gsoc page

2011-03-11 Thread Kathey Marsden
I was wondering if there was any objection to linking the ranking process [1] from the gsoc page [2]. The ranking process is not private, but seems somewhat hidden. I think it is good for both mentors and students to understand the ranking process so would suggest linking it from both the

Re: [DRAFT] GSoC announcement mail to pmcs@

2011-03-08 Thread Kathey Marsden
On 3/8/2011 5:14 AM, Ulrich Stärk wrote: Please comment. Uli *snip* Subject: Google Summer of Code 2011 is almost there Hello PMCs, Google Summer of Code is the ideal opportunity for you to attract new contributors to your projects. If you want to participate with your project you now

Re: [VOTE] open ComDev SVN access to all committers

2011-03-03 Thread Kathey Marsden
On 3/3/2011 6:50 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: [X ] +1 grant commit rights to ComDev site directory to all committers

Re: [GSOC] Tags for tasks etc

2011-03-03 Thread Kathey Marsden
On 3/3/2011 9:05 AM, Norman Maurer wrote: Hi there, this email is mostly for the co-admins. How you guys thing it makes most sense to manage tasks for GSOC. JIRA 4.x has labels build in so I think we should just use them. +1 to using Jira labels. Should it be the gsoc2011 label? right now

Re: [PATCH] update mentee ranking to include IRC as valid form of full point interview

2011-02-11 Thread Kathey Marsden
On 2/11/2011 12:17 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: After committing under https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/comdev/site/trunk you need to go to https://cms.apache.org/community/ where you can check the staging version of the site, and if ok publish to the live site. See

[PATCH] update mentee ranking to include IRC as valid form of full point interview

2011-02-10 Thread Kathey Marsden
Hello, Here is a patch to update the valid forms of full point interview for GSoC to inlclude IRC as discussed last year on the thread http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/community-dev/201009.mbox/%3c4c7fd2b0.1040...@sbcglobal.net%3E I also wanted to confirm that with the new CMS

Re: GSoC is go...

2011-02-08 Thread Kathey Marsden
On 2/4/2011 8:35 AM, Kathey Marsden wrote: On 1/24/2011 4:23 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: http://goo.gl/7EaUC What is the preferred method for projects to record project ideas this year? I missed it the first time but realize this is covered at: http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html which

Re: GSoC is go...

2011-02-04 Thread Kathey Marsden
On 1/24/2011 4:23 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: http://goo.gl/7EaUC What is the preferred method for projects to record project ideas this year? Thanks Kathey

Re: [REPORT] Community Development

2010-11-17 Thread Kathey Marsden
On 11/16/2010 10:06 PM, Norman Maurer wrote: All I got from google was this email: snip uninformative mail from Google Thank you Norman for your work on the application and volunteering to be admin.Maybe they just decided to let some smaller organizations have a shot. Maybe next

Re: [REPORT] Community Development

2010-11-16 Thread Kathey Marsden
We applied for the Google Code-In (Google's contest to introduce pre-university students to the many kinds of contributions that make open source software development possible) but were, unfortunately, unsuccessful. Ross, I was wondering if you could elaborate here. What happened, why

Google Code-In, why is Apache out? (was Re: [REPORT] Community Development)

2010-11-16 Thread Kathey Marsden
On 11/16/2010 4:50 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: On 16/11/2010 23:26, Kathey Marsden wrote: We applied for the Google Code-In (Google's contest to introduce pre-university students to the many kinds of contributions that make open source software development possible) but were, unfortunately

Re: [Apache Mentoring Programme]JavaScript-only PDF viewer component

2010-09-15 Thread Kathey Marsden
On 9/15/2010 12:31 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: All your work should be done within the project community. So your work should be submitted via their Jira and SVN. Progress should also be recorded against the relevant issues linked from the original proposal [1]. In general this means submitting

Re: Reviewing the evaluation process

2010-09-02 Thread Kathey Marsden
On 9/2/2010 9:21 AM, Rahul Akolkar wrote: Original Ideas are good === Past experience has shown that if a student proposes their own idea and it is accepted the student is going to be strong. PROPOSAL Add the following to the mentor ranking: Is the project

Re: [DISCUSS] [VOTE] roll women@a.o into dev@community.a.o

2010-07-20 Thread Kathey Marsden
On 7/19/2010 10:35 PM, Anjana G Bhattacharjee wrote: So much emptiness, even with the windows shut, especially since no one ever lived inside. How do we listen to silence and learn to keep listening? Empty Houses in Baja California Poems No.27 by Kenneth Liberman (my friend and mentor) I am

Re: Resolving a COMDEV isue

2010-07-19 Thread Kathey Marsden
On 7/18/2010 4:43 AM, Ulrich Stärk wrote: I took the freedom to add you to the PMC and committers project roles for COMDEV. Thank you so much! COMDEV-11 is resolved :-) Kathey

Re: [VOTE] roll women@a.o into dev@community.a.o

2010-07-16 Thread Kathey Marsden
On 7/16/2010 2:17 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: Comdev people, please vote on folding women@ into this mailing list, see also [1]. The idea is to close the women@ list and/or or setup an autoresponder that directs people to this list instead. +1

Resolving a COMDEV isue

2010-07-16 Thread Kathey Marsden
I am trying to resolve COMDEV-11 which was Jayaram's mentoring project which he has completed. I am not seeing a Resolve or Close option. Possible issues I think may be 1) I need to be added to the COMDEV devlopers group or 2) Maybe because we don't have versions as such it doesn't show up.

Re: Repeat: roll women@a.o into dev@community.a.o

2010-07-01 Thread Kathey Marsden
On 7/1/2010 8:19 AM, Jean T. Anderson wrote: Ping -- is there energy to roll women@ into d...@community? Hi Jean, I am sure I sent a mail to women@ proposing we do this and received no objections and had seen no mail since, but now for some reason I don't see it in the archives. Iwill send

Re: Help regarding mentoring program

2010-05-05 Thread Kathey Marsden
On 5/5/2010 11:21 AM, Keshan Sodimana | කේෂාන් සෝදිමාන wrote: Hi all, I am Keshan Sodimana an undergraduate from University of Colombo school of computing, Sri Lanka. i am a big FOSS enthusiast and i have been working on several open source projects but i am a newbie to Apache Software

Re: Reviewing the evaluation process

2010-04-23 Thread Kathey Marsden
On 4/23/2010 4:14 PM, Rahul Akolkar wrote: snap/ The ability to formulate a GSoC proposal and attract mentor(s) for it must be rewarded. If original just means not going for one of the ideas proposed by a mentor for GSoC and exploring what's needed, including the issues in Jira and

Re: Reviewing the evaluation process

2010-04-23 Thread Kathey Marsden
On 4/23/2010 4:45 PM, Rahul Akolkar wrote: On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Kathey Marsden kmarsdende...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On 4/23/2010 4:14 PM, Rahul Akolkar wrote: The ability to formulate a GSoC proposal and attract mentor(s) for it must be rewarded. If original just

Re: Apache mentoring program

2009-12-09 Thread Kathey Marsden
Tim Williams wrote: On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Kathey Marsden kmarsdende...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Ross Gardler wrote: 2009/12/7 Kathey Marsden kmarsdende...@sbcglobal.net: Jayaram Subramanian wrote: Hi, Thanks for the opportunity given to me for submitting my