<div dir="ltr"><div>------------------------</div> ## About the summit “The Mentor Summit is an annual unconference and every project participating in Google Summer of Code 2019 is invited to attend. The summit was held from October 17 - October 20 '19, in Munich Germany. 332 Mentors from 162 organizations and 42 countries registered for the Mentor Summit." Rahul Bothra<<a href="mailto:rrbothra@gmail.com">rrbothra@gmail.com</a>> and Tarun Kumar Singhal<<a href="mailto:tarunsinghaliitd@gmail.com">tarunsinghaliitd@gmail.com</a>> represented Sugar Labs. Summit Website: <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/gsoc-mentorsummit2019/">https://sites.google.com/view/gsoc-mentorsummit2019/</a> ## Lightning Talks "Lightning talks are brief-but-informative fun presentations about your very best GSoC and/or GCI student outcomes. ... be relatable, interesting, and focus on the exceptional. Even if all your students were amazing, just tell us about 1 or 2 (at most) that will be understood by a general technical audience" Lightning Talks allowed us to understand what other organizations are working on. We did not give a lightning talk for Sugar Labs - since the projects focused more on maintainability than user experience change (at least those re Sugar). ## Unconference Sessions Unconference Sessions were organized by attendees to discuss a topic they were interested in, for an hour. They spanned over two days with ~6 sessions running parallelly. Discussions that could be useful for Sugar Labs - * Outreachy - How the program is evolving now. FWIK, we used to participate in the past. * Open Data - Making different kinds of data open. The discussion did include a need to have primary level teaching resources open-sourced from different regions of the world. ## Informal discussions The summit provided plenty of room for networking sessions. Rahul interacted with many mentors including those representing webpack, Julia Computing, Blender, Fedora and many more. Except Fedora, none of them had heard of Sugar Labs before. Rahul explained "What is Sugar and how did it evolve", "How Music Blocks evolved and what are its future goals". ## Takeaway * The summit is primarily designed to be a fun summit. Since the format of the summit remains the same every year, we need to identify ways to leverage this opportunity for promoting our existence. * Laptop stickers were an attraction in the summit - we should take them. ------------------------ </div>