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

[James Cameron]

With only two affirmative votes, against four negative votes, the
change will not go ahead.

On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 04:55:16PM +1100, James Cameron wrote:
> 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
> 
> -- 
> James Cameron
> http://quozl.netrek.org/

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James Cameron
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