Overall, I share Lydia's concerns that we may not be able to provide sufficient support in this case. I think taking part in this is a great responsibility that we should take very serious, and at least I for my part do not think that I could commit to this effort now.
I do not think that this is a possibility to get much work done, but a possibility to give something back to society in terms of education and inspiration. We should only do it if we really think that this is something we can afford to do right. It also means that it is not so important whether the participants are working on SMW-specific code or just on MW code in general. Therefore it might be best for interested & committed mentors to work directly with MediaWiki (given that they take part at all) than to have a separate application for SMW. Cheers, Markus On 17/10/11 22:48, Lydia Pintscher wrote: > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 23:40, Yaron Koren<ya...@wikiworks.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Oh yes, you're right, it's November 1. Which means that we have less >> than two weeks to apply, if we wanted to apply. >> >> I haven't seen any evidence that it's open only to organizations that >> participated in GSoC, but I haven't seen that much direct information >> about it in general, so you could be right. I would say doing it as >> part of the Wikimedia Foundation would be less than ideal, but still >> better than nothing. That's my opinion, anyway. > > Yeah. The reasoning was (at least last year) that Google doesn't want > to let just anyone work with the kids but only orgs they already know > are good, reliable and trustworthy. I saw something similar for this > year if I'm not mistaken. Again SMW might be able to get around this > as a corner-case. But that's really for Carol to decide if we decide > to apply. > > > Cheers > Lydia > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct _______________________________________________ Semediawiki-devel mailing list Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel
