Today was the second and last day of Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit.
Couple sessions trying to share organization/mentor experience from sucessful projects and some discussion on how to keep sucessful students participating and contributing to the community. Among other suggestions, below are couple ones I particularly liked and will try to adopt not only for GSoC, but with the community in general :
- Express your gratitude for the good contributions. This is the same principal fathers use with their kids, basically say "good job" to members of the community that deserve it.
- Another thing is to foster a friendship with the students, and basically known them better and learn what's the best approach to get the student really committed to the project.
Still about GSoC Summit, but changing gears a bit towards Apache Software Foundation. It was very good to see that Apache was mentioned multiple times in the good way, and it looks like Google and others have great admiration for ASF. In the other hand, was little frustrating to see couple people associating Apache to Apache HTTP, and not really to recognize Apache as an umbrella organization that have many more important and interesting projects. Maybe I was just talking with the wrong people, but if this is a general view, we might be in need of an "education campaign" to let people know more about Apache, The Apache Software Foundation.
And again, Leslie Rocks !!!
Thanks, Google, Leslie and all the mentors that made this a very single learning opportunity !!!
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