[Sugar-devel] Proposal: moving "assisting mentors" back to the community role for GSoC 2020

[James Cameron]

Walter and I are your organisation administrators for GSoC 2020.

On the GSoc Mentors mailing list from 8th March and still going is a
thread "Deadline to invite mentors" which morphed into the expertise
required of mentors to do a project [1].

After putting forward the Sugar Labs compromise practice of "coding
mentors" and "assistant mentors", there has been both criticism and
support for the practice from other organisation administrators.  The
criticism has been voluminous and well stated.  The support
comparatively muted.

I'd like to hear what the Sugar Labs community thinks now.

The effect of the change [2] can be seen here [3].

In implementing the change we would;

- require _all_ project communication to be carried out in the open,
  on GitHub, mailing list, or IRC,

- expect the previous assistant mentors to either promote themselves
  to the position of mentor by showing their expertise, or be content
  with participation within the wider Sugar Labs community.

- remove from the dashboard the previous assistant mentors who are no
  longer listed against a project,

What do you think?


References:

1.  https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-summer-of-code-mentors-list/CAJzXzVEkw%2BOT6nSXvTraNaNqNdR6h0mbjFtaejJcUnueU4YX4Q%40mail.gmail.com

2.  https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC/pull/94

3.  https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC/tree/simplify

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James Cameron
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