Hi,
On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 9:46 PM, Harsh Gupta wrote:
> Though lack of mentors is a real logistical issue (I can't complain because
> I
> won't be mentoring this time). We need to recognize the fact that SymPy,
> like
> most of the other FOSS organizations has a serious lack of women
> particip
I'm going to second that. If past years are any indication, I'll be the
primary person doing work on the GSoC application. So from my point of
view, that work is already laid out for me. I don't really have the time to
work on that and Rails Girls SOC.
However, if you want to champion it, submit a
Harsh,
Are you suggesting we should choose these programs instead of GSoC? Or that
we should delegate some of our mentors to this program instead of GSoC?
If these programs are equivalent to GSoC but target under-represented
communities instead of all people, I wouldn't have a problem with us giv
Though lack of mentors is a real logistical issue (I can't complain because
I
won't be mentoring this time). We need to recognize the fact that SymPy,
like
most of the other FOSS organizations has a serious lack of women
participants.
I highly recommend a reading of the article "Free as in Sexist
I agree with Aaron here. We barely get enough mentors for GSoC, so I'm not
sure how this will be possible. We could apply and then subtract the rails
girls mentors from the possible GSoC mentors. There is also no guarantee
we'll get all the GSoC spots we want.
In general, it'd be best to determine
I think we should go for it, atleast we can mentor a project or two.
I guess this doesn't requires us to sponsor the student.
Amit Kumar
On Tuesday, January 19, 2016 at 8:40:15 PM UTC+5:30, Sumith 1896 wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Rails Girls Summer of Code(http://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/) is
> ac
