<div dir="ltr">Just for some point of correction.<div><br></div><div> Sugar Labs Social was never a GSoC project, I don't understand why you keep bringing it up. Any "coding" project that is related to Sugar Lab's goals or leads to improvement to the mission is eligible as a Gsoc project.<div><br></div><div>Some project requires more than 3 months of coding to be called a successful project. I just wonder how these decisions are made. Let utilize the GSoC platform to improve every form of Sugar Labs as much as possible. Everything is as important as the other. </div></div><div><br></div><div>The current tools we are building how do we measure its success?</div><div><br></div><div>Regards </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 5:47 PM Rahul Bothra <<a href="mailto:rrbothra@gmail.com">rrbothra@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><img width="0" height="0" class="gmail-m_1686908281991956239mailtrack-img" alt="" style="display: flex;" src="https://mailtrack.io/trace/mail/eb5895557f3ada7e139d80152f26586ce350239a.png?u=3420306"><div></div><div>Hello,<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_1686908281991956239gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 7:44 PM Amaan Iqbal <<a href="mailto:amaaniqbal2786@gmail.com" target="_blank">amaaniqbal2786@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_1686908281991956239gmail_attr"><div>> I see we only have 6 projects so far in our Ideas list in comparison to 11 </div><div>> which were selected in GSoC last year. Being a successful Open Source</div><div>> organization, I sincerely hope we have the potential of having many more</div><div>> projects in GSoC this year(most probably 15+ if we can come up with </div><div>> such promising ideas). </div><div><br></div><div>We had 12 projects last year, out of which 1 was failed officially. Many</div><div>projects failed to deliver what was expected out of them, including my own. </div><div>Some projects did not involve improving our tools, Sugar Desktop, Activities, </div><div>MusicBlocks or Sugarizer, and did add any value to the organisation.<br></div><div>This was primarily because we had more projects than we could handle,</div><div>and that some projects were not effectively groomed and mentored.</div><div><br></div><div>I don't know what a "successful Open Source organisation" means. But I</div><div>don't think we should release more ideas than we can mentor. Having less</div><div>projects does not imply our failure in any sense, lack of existing contributors</div><div>might indicate that.</div><br class="gmail-m_1686908281991956239gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_1686908281991956239gmail_attr">> Here I would suggest an idea for the renovation of our Website, <a href="http://planet.sugarlabs.org/" target="_blank">blog</a>, and</div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_1686908281991956239gmail_attr">> creation of a customized/integration of existing CMS to our website from</div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_1686908281991956239gmail_attr">> where admins can create articles directly.</div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_1686908281991956239gmail_attr"><br></div><div class="gmail-m_1686908281991956239gmail_attr">FWIW, our current website was also implemented as a GSoC Project. I</div><div class="gmail-m_1686908281991956239gmail_attr">don't think it will improve our tools, or if it will actually be completed. Past</div><div class="gmail-m_1686908281991956239gmail_attr">examples show that development of such tools (Sugar Social, ASLO v3)</div><div class="gmail-m_1686908281991956239gmail_attr">never got into deployment at the end.</div><div class="gmail-m_1686908281991956239gmail_attr"><br></div><div class="gmail-m_1686908281991956239gmail_attr">Even if we add a project for improving the website, 2 years down the line</div><div class="gmail-m_1686908281991956239gmail_attr">we might again face a similar email pointing out the drawbacks of the new</div><div class="gmail-m_1686908281991956239gmail_attr">model and another revamping of the website.</div><div class="gmail-m_1686908281991956239gmail_attr"><br></div><div class="gmail-m_1686908281991956239gmail_attr">Although I would be happy to see contributions made to improve the</div><div class="gmail-m_1686908281991956239gmail_attr">website, I am not in favor of adding this as a GSoC Project. </div><div class="gmail-m_1686908281991956239gmail_attr">FYI, there are plans of A/B testing of the website, though I don't know the</div><div class="gmail-m_1686908281991956239gmail_attr">current status.</div><div class="gmail-m_1686908281991956239gmail_attr"><br></div><div class="gmail-m_1686908281991956239gmail_attr">Thanks,</div><div class="gmail-m_1686908281991956239gmail_attr">Rahul</div></div></div>
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