[gsoc][gsoc19] Communication between students and mentors
Hi, Are there any guidelines related to communication between students and mentors during GSoC? Many participating organisations and projects do explicitly recommend that student/mentor communication is conducted via public channels. e.g. https://docs.moodle.org/dev/GSOC """ Note: With regards to the communication culture in the Moodle project: We always prefer transparent communication in public forums and tracker comments over private messages and emails. Please respect this and avoid contacting GSOC admins and mentors directly unless you really need to talk about something sensitive or personal. """ or at least regular/weekly reports to dedicated and project-specific list https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_Recommendations_for_Studen... Would it be possible to ask for similar transparent mode during Boost GSoC? I do realise one challenge is that Boost mailing list traffic could increase a lot, too much for some subscribers. Perhaps a solution to that could be setting up dedicated lists: gsoc@lists.boost.org or even <library>@lists.boost.org Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
Hi, I encourage students to talk in the list and ask questions when needing help in place of take it to the mentor all the time. However, I don't think there should be reports or stuff like that in the dev-list. It makes sense in other orgs like python where they have way more students and mentors than us and they had a lot of disappearing mentors in the past, or for orgs where those kind of reports are common for the community, not a special thing for students. We have a gsoc-mentors email list for discussing problems and ideas while the gsoc progresses. Are you trying to fix some problem we had in the past that I do not know about? Best regards, Damian On Tue, Apr 2, 2019, 09:17 Mateusz Loskot via Boost <boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
Hi,
Are there any guidelines related to communication between students and mentors during GSoC?
Many participating organisations and projects do explicitly recommend that student/mentor communication is conducted via public channels.
e.g. https://docs.moodle.org/dev/GSOC """ Note: With regards to the communication culture in the Moodle project: We always prefer transparent communication in public forums and tracker comments over private messages and emails. Please respect this and avoid contacting GSOC admins and mentors directly unless you really need to talk about something sensitive or personal. """
or at least regular/weekly reports to dedicated and project-specific list
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_Recommendations_for_Studen...
Would it be possible to ask for similar transparent mode during Boost GSoC?
I do realise one challenge is that Boost mailing list traffic could increase a lot, too much for some subscribers. Perhaps a solution to that could be setting up dedicated lists: gsoc@lists.boost.org or even <library>@lists.boost.org
Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
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On Tue, 2 Apr 2019 at 20:17, Damian Vicino <damian@vicino.com.ar> wrote:
I encourage students to talk in the list and ask questions when needing help in place of take it to the mentor all the time. However, I don't think there should be reports or stuff like that in the dev-list. It makes sense in other orgs like python where they have way more students and mentors than us and they had a lot of disappearing mentors in the past, or for orgs where those kind of reports are common for the community, not a special thing for students. We have a gsoc-mentors email list for discussing problems and ideas while the gsoc progresses. Are you trying to fix some problem we had in the past that I do not know about?
I'm not trying to fix any problem. I'm asking quite an obvious question that I'd expect to appear to anyone, mentor and student, who aims to participate in Boost GSoC for the first time and does not find it covered by any guidelines. (Recall number of students was asking for mentors' e-mails, that indicates lack of guideline.) I have mentored in GSoC the past but for different organization where one of key recommendations was to keep all communication public and transparent and avoid any private student-mentor communication. That is also to introduce students to collaborative environment, to participation in a community, etc. I'd like to see that in Boost. I am considering to mentor for Boost.GIL and I'd like to encourage students to communicate via public channels, but I'd like to avoid flooding the general Boost developers' mailing list at the same time. Luckily, GIL specifically has got space where this can be achieved, https://lists.boost.org/boost-gil/ Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
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