Re: [GSoC] Welcoming our 2024 contributors and thanking our applicants

[Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>]

Hi Chandra, Ghanshyam and Jialuo,

On Wed, May 8, 2024 at 6:01 AM Kaartic Sivaraam
<kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com> wrote:

> As you may be aware, the results for GSoC 2024 have been officially
> announced[1]. We have 3 contributors contributing to Git this year[2].

Please let us know if you would like a call or some other kind of
meeting with only your mentors or with the wider Git community. It
could be on a regular schedule (like every few weeks) or not. It could
be a special Slack channel with us and perhaps others who would ask us
to be invited in it. We could also use this thread or other emails
threads either with or without the mailing list in Cc to discuss
things if you prefer.

We are suggesting this because the GSoC docs
(https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/help/oa-tips) have the
following:

"Have a virtual introductory meeting with all of the accepted GSoC
contributors and mentors in May to help welcome everyone and help them
feel more like part of the community. This is something GSoC
contributors appreciate and ask for every year in their feedback, more
orgs should try this."

and in an email to mentors and org admins we were also told to "Set up
an introduction/welcome meeting with all of your GSoC contributors and
mentors (and other community members when possible)".

Also please be aware that if we setup something, you might help each
other on that channel, but you should not really work together on the
same things as https://google.github.io/gsocguides/mentor/selecting-a-student
for example says:

"Don’t select multiple people for the same project idea: If two GSoC
contributors are working on the exact same project then they are
competing with each other. Likewise, don’t make one person’s project
dependent on another person’s project, that essentially makes it a
team project which is not allowed or in the best interest of the GSoC
contributors."

Also feel free to reply to this privately to your mentors if you prefer.

Best!