GSoC mentorship and czardom redux. We have 12 hours.

Rikki Cattermole alphaglosined at gmail.com
Thu Feb 13 18:07:16 PST 2014


On Thursday, 13 February 2014 at 18:38:43 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
>
> Following my call for GSoC would-be mentors we got exactly one 
> offer, from Russell Winder. Thanks! (There has been no response 
> whatsoever on the czardom position.)
>
> Needless to say, if we don't have a good pool of mentors we'll 
> be forced to retract our GSoC submission.
>
> Walter and I are are also in crunch mode reviewing DConf 
> submissions (subject of an upcoming post). I am overdue on 
> reviewing a new book proposal on D literally today. All of this 
> takes away from other high scrutiny work that we are, rightly 
> or wrongly, perceived as the bottleneck of.
>
> "Everyone wants to go to heaven, but no one wants to die," the 
> saying goes. There has been lively debate recently in this 
> forum about how our community can organize itself better, 
> during which there was no shortage of advice regarding things 
> that should be done. Now here we are - laid as bare as it gets 
> in front of us all is an opportunity for each and every one of 
> us to make a large and positive impact on the future of D. 
> There's no better opportunity to act on an obviously good 
> chance to push the D language further.
>
> I'll make tonight an executive decision about our participation 
> to GSoC this year. A strong GSoC leader would be fantastic. At 
> the very minimum we need a handful of mentors. Your turn.
>
>
> Andrei

I'm happy to be a mentor.
I'll add a few projects related to web development and GUI to the 
wiki for ideas.


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