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 proposal, and commit to mentoring, then I am in support of it. We should probably have at least two people willing to mentor, and I wouldn't recommend accepting more than one team. My personal priority will be mentoring GSoC, since I will be org admin if we are accepted, and suborg admin if we aren't accepted and work under the PSF/NumFOCUS). I suppose for SymEngine work you should get Ondrej's approval as well. Finally, I want to point out that if your goal is to have more female contributors, this can be achieved under the auspices of GSoC as well. What would need to happen is for us to make a conscious effort to attract more proposals from women. I recall hearing from other mentoring organizations at the mentor summit who have done this and been successful. Aaron Meurer On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 1:09 AM, Jason Moore <moorepa...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 giving > resources to that. All this really needs is a champion that will make it > happen. If Sumith, Amit, or you want to take the lead on making this happen > I'm guessing you will likely get support from the community. But there will > be the logistical issue of delegating our limited resources. > > if any of you are excited and driven to have SymPy participate in these > projects, then go for it! Just make sure to coordinate with the GSoC effort. > > Jason > > > Jason > moorepants.info > +01 530-601-9791 > > On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 9:46 PM, Harsh Gupta <gupta.hars...@gmail.com> > 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 >> participants. >> >> I highly recommend a reading of the article "Free as in Sexist >> <http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4291/3381>"[1] >> which talks >> about various issues which drives away women from FOSS. There is a need to >> explicitly work on reducing the gender gap in SymPy and programs like >> Rails >> Girls Summer of Code and Outreachy provides good opportunities to do so. >> >> [1]: http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4291/3381 >> >> -- >> Harsh >> https://medium.com/@hargup >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "sympy" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sympy. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CADN8iuoHDWTbgPk7kWq3KRyPS2RH8ZPUvD_4nfN5kpOw3iEn%3Dg%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CADN8iuoHDWTbgPk7kWq3KRyPS2RH8ZPUvD_4nfN5kpOw3iEn%3Dg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sympy. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAP7f1Aihb5u94wd3bSzFv7oGxKdmxgkgvJgbyShrgtsm1ZZYYw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAP7f1Aihb5u94wd3bSzFv7oGxKdmxgkgvJgbyShrgtsm1ZZYYw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sympy. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAKgW%3D6J9-smqVu1HSX6Kf4Fq%3DVcCzNDkgQPynZaizo3g7-NtmQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
